May 7, 2016

Ivy League economist accused of terrorism because of his math equations

A side effect of what happens when people don’t have exposure to math or sociology: a dark, curly-haired Italian Ivy League economist was profiled and escorted off an American Airlines flight because the idiot passenger sitting next to him thought the differential equations he was working on were Arabic, which she assumed was sinister. He was allowed to re-board.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/

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