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Posted: Fri 12:54, 02 Aug 2013 Post subject: More on Flying While Half-Arab_3 |
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them are either impractical --don't let anyone drive -- or politically or socially unacceptable (see: the NRA). Somehow we treat anything scare-labeled as "terrorism,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," and above all anything involving airplanes, as a separate category. So even those politicians who might want to challenge security-state thinking don't dare take the risk. All the more so with Democrats, who can't afford to seem in any way "weak."3. From a reader in the tech industry:Proof (as if it were needed) that racism is alive and well. I doubt it was malicious racism. I suspect this was a double trigger:A form of 'instinctive' racism causes someone to be suspicious of the behavior of someone with different colored skin, and to bring that to others' attention. Not rationalized racism, just gut-reaction racism. This is then combined with...A cause-without-compromise mentality (in this case National Security) that fails to balance security with other needs (liberty, dignity, moral leadership)These both feel to me like big
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