Oversold, understated and authoritarian: debullshitifying the reporting on United's "removal" of Dr David Dao
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2JVWV)
As the scandal over a United passenger who was beaten unconscious and dragged off a plane when he refused to give up his seat for a deadheading crewmember unspools, there's a predictable torrent of bullshit about how United was in the right because something something private property, and let us not forget the great American sport of victim-blaming. (more")