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Maybe if the self-appointed Scary Brown Man didn't go in expecting a confrontation and just grabbed the seat when it became clear the lady had lied, without being a snarky twat, there wouldn't have been a problem.

Chickie and her gimp are asshole, but I wouldn't want this douche sitting next to me either.

This, the couple sound like racist pricks, but this guy sounds like a dick too, and that's in his own version of events.

He's a Southwest pilot, not inspector Poirot. I think we can safely say he doesn't give a single fuck what happened.

For a woman to tell me something rude, that’s one thing. I’m not going to clobber a woman for a rude remark. But this guy – let’s be clear, he would never talk to me like that under any other circumstances. Ever.

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He has an MP3 player? What century did this occur in?

By GYASI ROSS • JAN 9, 2015

Not only an MP3 player, but a specifically mentioned Sony MP3 player.

So under those white space norms, it is weird and unsettling to walk into a plane, where you don't know the seating towards the back, and immediately choose to take the seat that is guarded by societal norms. They have their stuff on the seat and are trying to save it, presumably for the baby. I would not personally take that seat, because it is guarded by cultural norms and is confrontational- you take the seats that are unguarded before the seats that are guarded.

But the author and the couple are operating on different cultural norms. He sees the guarded seat, and the couple with the baby, and doesn't think "oh, they're hoping to get a seat for the baby", but "oh, they don't want people like me sitting here, in the front, in the best seats, next to them."

To some degree, but "white space norms" don't allow that couple to claim extra space indefinitely. Up until about 50%* maximum capacity, white space norms allow people to claim extra adjacent seating. But at some point between 66%* and 75%*, the expectation is that you should start moving your stuff, because someone's just going to ask you to move your stuff anyways.

*I made the numbers up, but basically, when it starts seeming like seating is getting scarce, people on public transit should expect to get called on their seat-saving

We're gonna maths our way out of bigotry, folx.

Look, I’m from the rez – we’re hunter-gatherers.

Strange way to say you are unemployed.

With MF it's more Opinion Ballet, see all those people gracefully jump around to not stomp on any group.

Look, we all know Metafilter users are despicable scum, and part of the fun of the Trump administration will be watching them gradually go extinct over the next couple of years.

That said, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. I read the article, and I have to agree with the Native American guy. He was treated unfairly, and his response was to get aggressive and escalate the situation. That's something that all r/drama users ought to be able to get behind. I mean, we literally say it in the sidebar.