Originally Posted by
studentff
The equivalent of "reverse discrimination" with regard to racial profiling. Instead of doing the right thing, which in this case would be to abolish the pseudo-science BDO program, they simply decide to target extra white people to get their ratios to look better. Casually dressed travelers are likely perceived as more cooperative and less likely to file complaints, yet another form of assumption-based profiling.
Anyone who believed this program would not lead to forms of profiling considered inappropriate in the US, particularly race and apparent ethnicity, was in complete denial of human nature. The profilers are inevitably going to use all of the information available to them, even if they are not supposed to, and draw conclusions both correct and incorrect based on their common experiences and beliefs.
The mythical "reverse discrimination" wasn't goosing the numbers the way racist discrimination against non-ethnic European minorities was "accomplishing".
Compared to "black" and "brown" minorities, the European-American passengers wearing jeans, T-shirt and sneakers were far less likely to be singled out for extra hassling by these TSA clowns "profiling" than the mentioned ethnic "black" and "brown" minorities.
Profiling -- racist profiling as it continues to be -- by "security" screeners at an airport is but a euphemism for invited bigotry against classes of ethnic and/or religious minorities that relies upon some prevailing, emotional narrative of (group) guilt by association.
While they may attempt to mask the racism by goosing up the numbers of persons from primarily European ethnic background, the harassment has not been equally intense for all groups.