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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
You are reading too much (or too literally) into my (admittedly sloppy) statement of "who gives a shit..."
It would have been more accurate to say, "I submit that the imminent danger presented by a child walking away from a flight that just landed and wearing a t-shirt that appears to be of Cuban origin, is significantly lower than that presented by a child walking towards a flight that is about to take off and wearing something that set off a metal detector. And yet, we hear outrage about the latter (male) child taking off his shirt (even though it appears that it was his father's idea, and act) than we ever did about the former (female) child having to remove her shirt."
I am certain that you are intelligent enough that, were you on Customs duty that day, you would have found a way to separate the girl from her shirt without having her stripped to her bra in public. Unless your feeling is that engaging in a minimal act of civil disobedience costs a young girl her right to complain about that sort of thing.
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I don't fly internationally often, but people pulled for customs inspections go behind a screen as far as I've seen. If this was just "You -- take off the Che tank top" then that's shitty.
