Conservatives have never had anything but disdain for civil liberties, especially when it comes to minority groups. From the Arizona law to the war on blacks...er, drugs, they have fought civil libertarians every step of the way and defended total tyranny.
Now that the TSA has started its porno-scanning grope-a-thon, white conservatives are finally getting a tiny, microscopic, pitiful taste of what they've inflicted on minorities for generations. And unsurprisingly, they don't like it. Their objection is not that civil liberties are being violated, but that the damage is being done to white conservatives instead of minorities. Their solution to the whole thing is "profiling." In other words, they are fine with the TSA's techniques, but prefer the sexual humiliation to be aimed at minorities instead of WASPs.
And they wonder why people consider them racist shitbags.
I have to disagree with conservatives wanting minorities to be groped. By and large, they want something that is more in line with what Israel does, where people are apparently "mind-groped", rather than actually groped.
ReplyDeleteRight on Cork. It is, afterall, primarily white, middle class people who fly. I think that's why the majority of the country "supports" the new measures: the majority don't fly, only the priveledged do, and it's a chance for the less fortunate to show the middle and upper classes what it's like to be treated suspiciously and inhumanely.
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