變型正義
一南亞裔美籍家庭日前在華府乘搭航機外出度假，由於有乘客在起飛前聽到他們討論發生事故時飛機哪部位較安全，因而全家人被驅離航班，接受聯探員的盤問多個小時。雖然後來證實沒有任何保安疑慮，但航空公司仍然拒絕他們搭乘該公司的其他航班。此事故的含義並不止於一般的種族歧視，還反映了社會上存在的「變型正義」。
「飛機上哪部份較安全？」類似的閒談，想無數坐過飛機的人都談論過，本是平常又普通的事情。之所以會有乘客認真地去報警，主要原因是當事人貌似中東裔。航空公司不承認是種族歧視，報警的乘客極可能也不會認為自己是歧視。因為如果不是真心感到安全受威脅，也不會明知會影響行程也要報警。所以，於報案者而言，除了自身安全外，也為了正義，是拯救全機人員安全的義舉。航空公司事後解釋，稱是為對公眾安全負責，換句話也是正義行為。
對所有中東裔提高警惕，幾乎是美國全民的共識，已不被當作是歧視。這種變型的正義感，也顯現在對以巴問題的態度上。上周在中文電台節目裡，多名聽眾指加沙的巴勒斯坦人一周來受到以軍襲擊是「罪有應得」，聽眾發言時都是理直氣壯的。支持以色列者的理論是巴人先以火箭施襲，以軍只是自衛。這種簡化的因果論，沒有追尋事實的背景與細節，也忽略了對生命和人權的基本尊重。
剛看到新聞報道資料，以軍在空襲一周後，已開始發動地面和海上的攻擊行動，至今造成最少460名巴人死亡，幾千人受傷。至於被指引發這場衝突的巴人火箭攻擊事件，共造成4名以色列人死亡，59傷。對「正義」思考，真的不能太片面。
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There were Chinese Exclusion Act decades ago. That had nothing to do with hostile attack behind, economic reason maybe.
Then in 1942, a group of Asian were rounded up and put into camps because they are alien enemies. It was OK to lock them up. It was legal to do so.
Sixty some years later, it is OK to exclude the non-Christian, non-Jewish Mid-East people. They look different. They act different. For the safety of the flight crew, the aircraft , and the paid passengers, it is 100% politically correct to discriminate these people. Too bad, but that is the fact. It got blessing from the above. Guess what? This is the time to have a dedicated airline company for these people. It is already done at SFO recently. Forget about culture diversity. It just does't work. Let them be Black schools, White Schools, Yellow Schools. Let them to have Black Bus, White Bus, Yellow Bus. Let them to have White airlines, Black airlines, Yellow airlines.
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