To add insult to injury, the mom was flying to her brother's funeral when, upon deboarding the plane plane, they were stopped by cops and questioned under suspicion of human trafficking. Can't imagine how rough the whole trip was for her.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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Had the same when travelling with my ex-girlfriend who was small and East Asian. Yeah, kind of racist of them, but whatever.
If I'm honest, I'm kinda okay if that happened to me, because if their methods are helping to stop actual human trafficking, then it's worth it.
I remember me at the beach with my girlfriend once. She was 22 at the time, but looked younger than that - 16 or 17. I looked like, well, the 23 year old dude I was. She fell at some point and I crouched to assist her. A lifeguard walked up to us and the whole time he was addressing her: "are you okay? do you feel safe?" Etc. My girlfriend answered all his questions and then he went away. He probably thought I was some pervert trying to take advantage of the situation. And I was like "I get it." If she was an actual minor and I was some pervert stranger, I'm glad someone was paying attention to the situation.
If stopping Arabic-looking people stopped actual terrorist attacks, would it be worth it?
I gave this question far more thought than it probably deserves and the answer is no.
The only world in which this is possible is one where you define terrorism by appearance (which already hits pretty damn close to home). So I'd want the same mechanism applied to all people to catch the violent extremists of all appearances.
Most terrorists in the states are usually white and Christian.
How often would it stop terrorist attacks for each person stopped? We are talking about saving lives versus saving people from being offended correct?
The TSA can't even prevent weapons from going through security checkpoints, and they have real equipment and guidelines for their security checks and still fail to find contraband over 80-90% of the time when they do internal audits of TSA security checkpoints.
The TSA is a joke as is, and we don't need them to chase after a ghost problem when they can't even figure out the real problems they're supposed to be worrying about.
You're talking about formalising the concept of treating an entire demographic of people as 2nd class citizens who experience additional social barriers that others do not have to.
"I racially profiled every Mohammed in the US and 128,000 improper searches and surveillances down the list I discovered a terrorist. Mission accomplished."
How many times would it have to happen to you before it got old and you stopped being okay with it?
I don't know. That was 20 years ago. We only lasted about a year, and that happened just once. I can see how it could be annoying, but again, it's not like they're pulling me over for "driving while brown." There's a genuine concern about human trafficking.
If my annoyance helps innocent people from being trafficked, I'm reluctantly okay with it.
Let's cross that bride when we get there?
Bridge?
I stand by what I said
You do not want to cross the bride. Don't do that. Though, seriously, that's no good for anyone who it has already gotten very old for and that people are explaining away the feelings of.
Honestly, good for them for doing what they can against human trafficking. It's worth offending a person here and there to save people from that terrible fate. Unfortunately, differing skin tones/ethnicities are probably the easiest indicator of human trafficking to watch for.
Yeah, and they should totally be stopping people in turbans to prevent terrorism! Who cares if a few people are offended if it means saving lives, right?
This is a bad take. There are so many mixed race families in the world. It is not okay to start harassing all of them just because they might be doing something wrong. It's literally just racism no matter how you try to dress it up.
That's the basis of every argument against free speech, Save the Children is more and more a dogwhistle excuse to harass a group someone doesn't like. Drag queens, lgbtq folks, adults creating and consuming adult content.
It's a way to intrude on privacy and free speech in a way that is unconscionable.