economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight

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(05-07-2016, 10:45 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: Italians are... White (caucasian)

Italians are white as far as the Caucasian/European label goes, but southern Italians are dark enough to be mistaken for terrorists and the entire reason this guy was taken aside was because he was doing math while being white, but not white enough to be obviously NOT a terrorist.

Both sides of my family are from southern Italy/Sicily and I've been mistaken for a middle easterner more than 0 times.  It's not a huge deal, but I wouldn't trust someone to "know I'm white" from a distance in this paranoid age.

(05-08-2016, 10:23 AM)McC Wrote: Better to have ten thousand innocent people hassled than one guilty one bring down a plane full of innocent people.

I know this doesn't mesh with this artificial PC bullshit culture in which we live.  The real reality is that no one would want their loved ones to die because a suicide bomber slipped though the cracks.  You can't have it both ways.

Well, everyone is into PC bullshit of some type...some are just more popular than others.  A small percentage of veterans have been tragically violent due to post-traumatic stress disorder but we aren't treating them like a dangerous group to be profiled and feared.  Oy, I wonder how that would go over with the "poo on PC" crowd.