Sara Nelson says Tuberville is trying to "distract people from the real problems he helped create"
International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, quoted in the union's post
“Tuberville wants to focus on anything except the real problems facing the American public, starting with the skyrocketing cost of fuel. He could end the Iran War and protect the public from predatory AI, but instead he’s calling Care Bear “violent” to try to distract people from the real problems he helped create.”
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Original post
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Post by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, shared with its president Sara Nelson's account. The first slide reads "Our furry flight attendants help keep our skies safe too"; the second quotes Nelson criticizing Tuberville's focus. The caption says Tuberville had said some pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers are furries and called it terrifying.
Original post
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Post from the flight attendant union's Bluesky account attributing the quoted statement to AFA President Sara Nelson. It quotes a clip of Tuberville's floor remarks about airline workers and the furry community and carries the same two images as the union's Instagram post.
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The union's post opens by thanking Tuberville for the shoutout and says he called it terrifying that some pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers are furries. It then introduces Nelson's quotation.
After the quotation
The union published the quotation as a graphic on Instagram, jointly with Nelson's account, and on Bluesky.
How this statement is classified
Case context: Is there evidence for Tommy Tuberville's claim that furries working in the airline industry are a flight-safety risk?
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Why this label?
The reference point is Tuberville's claim that many airline pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers are furries and a flight-safety risk. Nelson criticizes him for raising it to "distract people" from fuel costs and other issues, which criticizes his making the claim; she does not address its accuracy.
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