MAINSTREAM MEDIA INFLUENCE......I started reading this article, thinking it was about a suspected terrorist. A long article. Partway through I began feeling sorry for the young man at the center of this "incident". you can read the first paragraph below and I skip to the last couple of sentences. HOW IN THE HELL DID THIS ARTICLE END WITH SOME DETRIMENTAL REMARKS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP ????

Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight

The Washington Post     Catherine Rampell 

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11:20 a.m.: This post has been updated to include additional details from American Airlines.

On Thursday evening, a 40-year-old man — with dark, curly hair, olive skin and an exotic foreign accent — boarded a plane. It was a regional jet making a short, uneventful hop from Philadelphia to nearby Syracuse.

Or so dozens of unsuspecting passengers thought.

The curly-haired man tried to keep to himself, intently if inscrutably scribbling on a notepad he’d brought aboard. His seatmate, a blond-haired, 30-something woman sporting flip-flops and a red tote bag, looked him over. He was wearing navy Diesel jeans and a red Lacoste sweater – a look he would later describe as “simple elegance” – but something about him didn’t seem right to her.    READ FULL STORY

W.T.F.........  Trumps fault ?

“What might prevent an epidemic of paranoia? It is hard not to recognize in this incident, the ethos of [Donald] Trump’s voting base,” he wrote.

In this true parable of 2016 I see another worrisome lesson, albeit one also possibly relevant to Trump’s appeal: That in America today, the only thing more terrifying than foreigners is…math.