Racial guilt in Germany, 100 air passengers get $21,000 each

Another case of racial guilt and customers getting a huge and underserved excessive payout of money.

Lufthansa airlines in Germany has agreed to pay a settlement which is equal to the equivalent of over 21,000 U.S. dollars each to over 100 passengers who were denied being able to board a plane because they were Jewish.
Apparently several of the passengers in the group were refusing to wear face masks, according to the rules, and some of the employees present singled out the entire group as problematic.

100+ Jewish Passengers to Get $21K Each From Germany's Lufthansa: Report (businessinsider.com), Joshua Zitser, December 3, 2022

The article does not say this but I suspect what happened is that there were additional Jews in the group that were complaining about others in the group not being allowed to board the plane, creating a scene. The Orthodox Jews in the group mostly all looked alike, and it was harder for the employees to single out the ones who were causing the problem through excessive complaining, so it was just easier to ban the whole group.

Of course with the country of Germany's history (you know, the Holocaust and all that) they are very sensitive to anything that could suggest racism against Jewish people, and are very apologetic.
Part of the settlement payout of course it to get these Jews to agree not to try to sue them in court to get possibly an even larger payout of money. But I think most of this is that the airline executives think that these Jewish people were singled out and not permitted to board the plane deserve lots of money. It's not really the airline executive's money that is being paid out, that is money that the stockholder owners of the company will not get. So it's kind of like a giveaway of someone else's money.

Anyone who is not stupid knows this is illogical and crazy. The German airline is tripping over themselves with guilt.

At the most those Orthodox Jews should have gotten the money they paid from their tickets refunded, each been given free first class tickets for a future destination, and maybe even been paid a few hundred dollars each for their inconvenience. Keep in mind several of them don't deserve any compensation at all because they refused to wear the masks, but apparently the airline employees did not identify specifically which of those in the group those were.

It's likely those in the group were not actually discriminated against the group for "being Jewish", but rather because they all looked the same, were dressed in strange outfits, were part of the group, and several in the group seemed to be complaining excessively and causing the employees grief.

 

Did you even read the article? Take a look at the photo, do any of those men look alike?

Speaking to Insider shortly after the incident, a passenger described it as racial profiling to "the highest degree I've ever witnessed in my life." Another passenger, Yitzy Schmidt, told Insider: "I was guilty by association, and that association is being an Orthodox Jew."

Lufthansa initially defended the decision, citing mask-wearing regulations in Germany, but videos later emerged of a Lufthansa employee saying it was "Jewish people who were the mess." The airline then apologized.

 

Kind of like if a white person punches a black person, it is just simple assault, but if a white person punches a black person and uses a racial slur, then it was a racist attack?

Sorry, just because one of the employees said that does not mean this incident was motivated by racism, nor does it mean Lufthansa should have to pay out lots of money.

The employee who allegedly said that was not the only employee who was part of making this decision.