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Also depends on the person. I am brown, have a long beard, and wear a head cover. Almost every time I fly in the US I get a pat down, my bag manually searched,
by trenchpilgrim 1y ago
Also depends on the person. I am brown, have a long beard, and wear a head cover. Almost every time I fly in the US I get a pat down, my bag manually searched, or a canine sniff. I budget extra time for it.
- stavros 1y agoOh yes, of course you should be harassed at the airport every time because of that one terrorism twenty five years ago.
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoHey, it’s actually because of that extra scrutiny that it hasn’t happened again, right? /s (double /s i am being totally sarcastic here)
- esseph 1y agoWe also spent 20+ years in various "Middle Eastern" countries, so that hasn't gone away for a lot of people that were around for 9/11. :-/
- komali2 1y agoThey're not the only one, we're all harassed at the airport every time. Going through the clownshow of TSA (which STILL fails the vast majority of its audits) wasn't the last of it, now they're doing facial scanning at the gate.
- listenallyall 1y agoGlad you can brush off the death of 3000 innocent people so easily
- stavros 1y agoOh sorry, I didn't realize that another 25 years of patdowns will bring them back.
- listenallyall 1y agoYour approval, or not, of the TSA's security theater is an entirely different issue than chuckling as you refer to 9/11 as "that one terrorism" (and ignoring numerous other incidents prior to, and after it). I'd also hesitate to refer to a pat down and manual search, as annoying as they may be, as "harassment."
- stavros 1y agoMy argument that TSA's security theater did nothing to make anyone safer is the entire point.
- listenallyall 1y agoI know. But you could have stated that without insulting and dismissing the 3000 victims and their families.
- Yizahi 1y agoIt wasn't insulting in the slightest. Maybe people shouldn't be offended at the smallest imaginary slights everywhere? Phrase "that one terrorism 25 years ago" notably doesn't have any adjective words at all. Like none. Maybe you can tell us which exact world do you consider insulting here? Word "that"? Or word "one"?
- listenallyall 1y agoYour internal empathy gauge must be really fucked up if you felt it was more important to provide a grammar lesson 5 sub-comments deep, rather than recognizing that 3000 murder victims have senselessly been deprived of 25 years of watching their kids grow up, spending time with their families, just living their normal lives - in addition to the grief that their surviving families and friends feel - and just respectfully deciding this isn't a discussion you absolutely needed to butt into.
- kstrauser 1y agoUgh, I hate that for you. Are you Sikh, by chance? If so, what do you do with that little knife you carry when you fly? I’ve never thought about that when I had the opportunity to actually find out.
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoThe knife is called a Kirpan, official TSA policy is there is no policy, it’s at the groper’s, pardon, screening officer’s discretion. https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/kirpans https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
- kstrauser 1y agoThat doesn’t sound like a roll of the dice or anything. I’d wondered how that was handled, as a religious object. It’s obviously more important to the holder than my pocketknife is to me, and I have zero concern about a Sikh person carrying one anywhere. They’re not going to bust that out. And yet, it is a knife. Probably the closest I’ve been that that was flying home from our wedding with the cake knife in my carryon. The TSA agent’s eyes widened when I hold him the shadow on the X-ray was a cake knife, but then I took it out and showed him how it was a ceremonial thing and wouldn’t break skin. Then the agent laughed and sent us along our way. A Kirpan isn’t so delicate, though.
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoImagine if another passenger on the same flight was carrying a sharpening stone :)