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And the "policy" has nothing to do with arabic people. The fine is for ANY 2 visible minority members detained for secondary questioning, not "we'll fine you as per the Too Many Brown People clause".
I personally completely disagree with any sort of hard-fast guideline such as this, but you damn well better have excellent watchdogs keeping an eye on the errant stupid fuck who wants to harass all the black people, or brown people, or something.
It may make statistical sense in light of recent events to place enormous scrutiny on arabs. But as soon as you take away all the guidelines that PROTECT the innocent arabs just trying to make a flight, a lot of them are going to get exploited.
With the amount of people in here acting the way they are, I'm willing to bet at least a couple of the airport security personnel currently employed (especially those employed since 9/11) are just itching to catch some "dirty arab" ready to bomb a plane.
Once an ethnicity is put under the magnifying glass on account of a bunch of assholes from that ethnicity, it is IMPERATIVE we make sure that the vast majority of innocent arabs aren't targeted.
And I don't give a shit about how uncomfortable white people are at the moment. Think about how insanely uncomfortable regular-Joe arabs are right now, knowing that every time they go outside, someone thinks they're going to set off a bomb, and if they look at somebody the wrong way, they're a terrorist.
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