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Comment by stavros

1 year ago

How is it fair to say that? That's some "why did you make me hurt you"-level justification.

No, it's not.

I have shoes that I know always beep on the airport scanners, so if I choose to wear them I know it might take longer or I might have to embarrassingly take them off and put them on the tray. Or I can not wear them.

Yes, in an ideal world we should all travel without all the security theatre, but that's not the world we live in, I can't change the way airports work, but I can wear clothes that make it faster, I can put my liquids in a clear bag, I can have bags that make it easy to take out electronics, etc. Those things I can control.

But people can't change their skin color, name, or passport (well, not easily), and those are also all things you can get held up in airports for.

  • That's true, if you're saying "I can at least avoid being assaulted by the shitty system", I just want to point out that it is a shitty system.