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Really.
@MaterS , I can believe that some people were obliviously ordering drinks during an emergency. I used to work in a hotel. There was a fire there once. My coworker had someone come up to him in the courtyard (in view of said fire) and ask about a refund for money he lost in the vending machine.
"Since when do airlines have the right to tell a passenger that a hat or shirt they are wearing is cause for denying them the right to be on a flight?
I would put up a fuss too and if kicked off the first thing I would do is call a lawyer.
You can’t tell a passenger to take off their hat and shirt because you don’t like what it says on it."
Oh really? You don’t have the right to do anything you want onboard an airplane. Do you want the guy sitting next to you to be wearing a KKK hat, and a shirt with a noose on it? Do you want the woman next to you to be wearing a G string bikini and nothing else (guys, don’t answer that 
)! How about an ISIS hat, and a shirt that says, “Death to America”? I believe they will generally not deny boarding, but first give people the opportunity to change.
If I am a passenger on a plane, I would not want the pilot to be uncomfortable. Just sayin’
Well, we can make exceptions… 
It doesn’t matter if I like what someone is wearing or not. If it makes one uncomfortable they can get off the plane.
There are lots of people who are made uncomfortable seeing certain people on planes - like those having a conversation in Arabic or wearing a thawb. Doesn’t make it right for an airline to kick them off the plane.
I was on a flight with a ER doc, and he said he stopped volunteering, because he then had to do a mound of paperwork and also opening himself up to litigation. Burned too many times. Also felt no real gratitude from anyone on the airline staff.
A friend has been an airline attendant for over 30 years. A man had some kind of heart attack in the rest room, and after they realized person didn’t answer to knocking, they opened the door and found the guy not only non-responsive - he was blue. They began CPR, got the medical kit. On that airlines, the senior steward/stewardess is familiar with contents of the medical kit. A doctor on the flight did a cardiac injection, and they were able to revive the fellow. Later this MD told the senior stewardess he had only seen that procedure done, he personally never had done it until that emergency situation.
Sometimes the docs in final years of residency or just out of medical school may be equally or more capable than a long time physician who doesn’t deal with medical emergencies.
@emilybee-- the person who was uncomfortable was the pilot. He/she has the right, maybe even the duty to be comfortable.
The pilot should also be expected to be reasonable, however, and in the case of that hat, the pilot was not reasonable.
My grandmother, however, would look askance at a hat being worn on a plane as that is akin to wearing a hat indoors. Would have solved the problem. 
“It doesn’t matter if I like what someone is wearing or not. If it makes one uncomfortable they can get off the plane.”
And unfortunately for you, it doesn’t matter one bit what you think. No doubt you’d prefer the entire flight crew to get off the plane so you could wear whatever offensive item you choose, but you’ll have a tough time getting to your destination without the crew.
Captain’s authority is very broad and empowering. It’s a matter of safety, and it’s the law.
In this day and age for a Black Panther hat to cause discomfort…Wow, we, as a society, are definitely not seeing eye to eye.
It’s the Black Panther!
A friend of mine was on an international flight. A passenger got very sick. The passenger knew she was dying and wanted one last trip to Europe. My friend is a doctor and she jumped up to help. A nasty breast tumor had opened up, spewing blood and pus all over the restroom. The situation was so dire that the pilot asked this doctor whether he should turn around and go back to Europe.
Anyway, long story shortened, when all was said and done and the patient-passenger stabilized, the bathroom taped off as being contaminated with bodily fluids, how did the airline reward my doctor friend?
One bottle of wine. Really?.
"In this day and age for a Black Panther hat to cause discomfort…Wow, we, as a society, are definitely not seeing eye to eye.
It’s the Black Panther!"
And how about the Pink Panther? The Pink Panther ALWAYS creeped me out, and I never found those movies very funny. Pink Panther outwear? Should be banned!
So what if the pilot was uncomfortable - there was nothing inappropriate about what the passenger was wearing.
Does a pilot have the right to ask a person who is wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat to take it off or have the person removed from flight if they refuse?
"Anyway, long story shortened, when all was said and done and the patient-passenger stabilized, the bathroom taped off as being contaminated with bodily fluids, how did the airline reward my doctor friend?
One bottle of wine. Really?."
That’s awful. They should refund the ticket, and give a voucher for a free flight, in my opinion. I have seen doctors get up from their first class seat and spend hours in the back. I always hope they get something. Shoot, my husband gave a minor assist to a guy having problems, and at least he got some airmiles, he wasn’t even a doctor.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_(comics)
“The Black Panther’s name predates the October 1966 founding of the Black Panther Party, though not the black panther logo of the party’s predecessor, the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, nor the segregated World War II Black Panthers Tank Battalion.[1][2] He is the first black superhero in mainstream comic books; virtually no black heroes were created before him, and none with actual superpowers. These included the characters in the single-issue, low-distribution All-Negro Comics #1 (1947); Waku, Prince of the Bantu, who starred in his own feature in the omnibus title Jungle Tales, from Marvel’s 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics; and the Dell Comics Western character Lobo, the first black person to star in his own comic book. Previous non-caricatured black supporting characters in comics include U.S. Army infantry private Gabriel Jones of Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos.”
Airlines have the right to enforce a dress code, and it’s made the news occasionally when they do enforce it. Profanity, clothes that they have deemed “inappropriate,” etc. This is certainly not the first time it’s happened.
^ What was Amanda wearing that was inappropriate?
^^^I haven’t even looked at the article, so I’m not claiming anything of the kind. Only that the airlines DO have the power to enforce dress codes, and I guess they can determine what they deem inappropriate.