Physician removed forcibly from United flight after overbooking--UPDATED

[athena]

435. First of all,

nobody was "offered (their) money back and additional compensation." They were offered a "voucher". That's like Starbucks taking away the coffee and offering a coupon for $2 that must be spent at Starbucks within a restricted period of several days, and only during off-peak hours. And then calling the police when the person refuses to give up the coffee they paid for.

It's not like the flight was delayed because of weather or mechanical problems. The second analogy is much better: the customer has to give up the coffee so that a Starbucks manager who just walked in can have it.

Finally, as other DUers have pointed out elsewhere, by that airline employee's argument, Rosa Parks should have gone to the back of the bus. Indeed, that is the best analogy, since Black people could sit at the front of the bus as long as all the White people had seats. But the moment a White person needed a seat at the front of the bus, a Black person had to go to the back. What this poor gentleman attempted was a form of civil disobedience, and he was physically abused for it. It is un-American to attack him rather than those who were so violent to him. (Then again, we now live in the Corporate States of America, so perhaps it is American to defend Corporations when they violate the dignity of individual citizens.)