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> Do you think they find a white guy flying out of China to be a likely terrorist? What does skin color have to do with this? And yes, oppressed groups in Chin
by teiferer 9mo ago
> Do you think they find a white guy flying out of China to be a likely terrorist?
What does skin color have to do with this? And yes, oppressed groups in China, like the Uyghurs, have support in the west. Among white people.
Maybe the winning strategy is comprehensive mass surveillance which flags you in a database long before even showing up at the airport and then the security theater just provides a suitable pretense for an arrest.
- 0x3f 9mo ago> What does skin color have to do with this? It affects their perception of how risky you are, obviously. Accurate or not. In fact, security tech in China will openly classify you by race/ethnicity.
- sho_hn 9mo agoOf course according to the US government terrorists are now white US citizens, so you could say they have become more open-minded.
- 0x3f 9mo agoYes, although the US is genuinely one of the least racist places in the world, that's more about how bad the rest of the world is. In China the CCTV view just tags you up as Han/Uyghur/African/whatever. Nobody would even think twice about it. There's not even a forum to discuss it, not because it upsets people to be confronted, it's just so casual and matter-of-fact it'd be strange to even talk about. Like of _course_ the Uyghurs are the dangerous ones.
- croes 9mo agoThe same Uyghurs in the US would be judged by theie religion und be tracked down by ICE