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Comment Re:They got a refund (Score 2, Informative) 1002

I don't think it was so much the Muslim background as it was the poor choice of location and conversation topic. If I was at the airport and I overheard a white family having a similar conversation, I'd probably report it too and I'd be surprised if things didn't play out the same way. With that said, profiling, racial, and even gender differences are a way of life, whether of not we would like them to be. We shouldn't just cite racism every time and throw common sense out the window. This family should not have been having this conversation in the middle of an airport. A dark-skinned man should not j-walk in the evening if he's wearing dark colored clothes because he'll be hard to see. Women should not walk around at night by themselves in the sketchy parts of town. Common sense first people!

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