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What about a Jeffery Jalaluddin? As an adult white American-born male who's subjected to the same "security theater" idiocy, I have to discount this sort of ra
by techbio 16y ago
What about a Jeffery Jalaluddin?
As an adult white American-born male who's subjected to the same "security theater" idiocy, I have to discount this sort of racialist argument.
- varjag 16y agoYou in Al Q tee at airport checkpoint: a harmless, if idiotic, expression of irony. Dark-skinned Jeffery in the same shirt: a worldview or political statement of potential jihadist.
- techbio 16y agoRacialist generalization. There is a "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" aspect here, and frankly the TSA's, and the average anxious air traveler, have an appreciation of irony I could only describe as absent. I wouldn't be surprised at being asked to turn it inside out. Or surprised at a Middle Eastern college student raising a cry of profiling/discrimination.
- varjag 16y agoIn ideal world there would be no racial profiling at security checkpoints. In reality there is, even if it's not institutionalized. The whole security escalation from 9/11 is related to hostilities from people of Middle-Eastern origin, and deep down every TSA guard knows that. TSA might have policies in place to avoid profiling, but everyone knows that it's planes from Saudi Arabia that trigger bomb scarces, it's Yemeni flights that are checked extra good, and it's overwhelmingly Arabic names on the no-fly list.
- techbio 16y agoNope. In an ideal world people would honor each other as individuals and prosper in civility, not fight murderous, destructive ideological vendettas. You can consider profiling to be the collateral damage from the aberrant behavior of unchecked few.