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I used to work with a Kevin and a Mohammed. Whenever we travelled to offsite offices Mohammed 100% of the time was picked for bag check, while Kevin was not pi
by happymellon 9mo ago
I used to work with a Kevin and a Mohammed.
Whenever we travelled to offsite offices Mohammed 100% of the time was picked for bag check, while Kevin was not picked once.
Mohammed was white, and Kevin was black.
It was completely racist, and never random.
- parineum 9mo agoNot defending the practice but the Mohammed thing has a possible origin that isn't directly racist. The common names among Muslims and their propensity to appear on various watch lists lead to a lot of false alarms on those with those names. It may be a racist result but there is a pretty reasonable and understandable reason it happens, ignoring the legality and morality of that kind of tracking as well.
- johnisgood 9mo agoI hope you extend this understanding to other patterns people recognize and act upon. :)
- tass 9mo agoA person can get mistakenly (or not) flagged for special screening and get it over and over again - it happened to me many years ago. I fixed it by filling out a form requesting a review, after which I received a “redress number” which could be entered into my booking information. It reliably stopped after that.
- throwjddjdj 9mo ago[flagged]
- happymellon 9mo agoThey didn't know he was white when they picked him from the list.
- rapidaneurism 9mo agoAn Irish man tries to enter the bar but is denied entry.
- xeornet 9mo agoWait so when I get treated differently in China due to being white... it's not racist? You're so far up your own virtue signalling you've lost touch.