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[–] regul@hexbear.net 84 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I have been under the impression, since about 2001, that anyone named Hasan got detained any time they passed through any type of ID checkpoint already.

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

pretty much everyone with an "Arabic sounding" name gets the "random" SSSS on the boarding pass

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just being brown was enough for me, the only time I’ve flown in my adult life without being pulled aside was, funny enough, when I went to China. I used to travel regularly for work, and it was so regular even my coworkers commented on it to the tsa.

[–] AcidLeaves@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago

"oh this potential terrorist is going to China? Better let them go and hope they succeed in attacking the Chinese"

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