Why air travel profiling won't work
Because we're just that stupid:
"A Midwest Airlines flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco was canceled Sunday night after a passenger discovered Arabic-type handwriting inside an in-flight magazine.
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The writing, which was scribbled on a page of the magazine, turned out to be Farsi, the Iranian language, said Midwest spokeswoman Carol Skornicka."
So thousands of dollars in fuel, lost time and rescheduling fees went down the tubes because someone assumed some scribbling in a magazine was a sign of imminent doom because it looked Middle Eastern. Even if racial profiling were officially practiced, it would only result in the detention of a whole lot of angry Sikhs, Israelis and Greeks.
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rj3 | 11:49 AM |
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Midwest Airlines is very racist. I was an emploee there and I open up their "dirty little secrets" on how minorities are treated they chose to get rid of me.
