Family of Boy with Down Syndrome Discriminated Against by American Airlines

Full story here:

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-family-kicked-off-flight-downs-syndrome,0,6588580,print.story

Just to be clear about the matter, discrimination is always dressed up by false claims about the general good. The pilot who claimed that a child with Down syndrome couldn’t fly on his cross country flight from Newark to Los Angeles because he might distract the crew and thereby affect the safe operation of the aircraft was using the time honored future perfect rationalization of bigots everywhere. Something bad might happen if we let the laborers have the weekend off, if we let people of color read, if we let blind people navigate with dogs. The story of Joan and Robert Vanderhorst and their son Bede breaks my heart and it’s an outrage.

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