Originally Posted by
demkr
What it is is political correctness. Instead of searching people who are most likely to be suspicious (i.e. arab men) --- they'll purposefully search nearly everyone else just to be part of a dog and pony show that everyone is suffering equally.
If the security officials have to "double check" at the gate , then how much faith do they have in their current system outside the secure area? Raises questions.
The security idiocy at airports in the UK and US has nothing to do with political correctness -- it has to do with making the ignorant majority
feel safe and with growing the pool of ignorant xenophobes who don't recognize/acknowledge that racism is already in play at airports and yet call for more racism to be in play at airports.