In many situations like this, it’s hard to tell how much is individual TSA agents acting as petty authoritarian, bigoted dickbags, and how much is centralized dickbaggery. In this case, given the consistency of the treatment, it seems like some yahoo, for whatever reason, flagged her in the system as a troublemaker, and that flag is seen as a license by TSA agents for supreme dickery.
The fact that Americans just accept that this is going on is staggering. If the TSA started targeting white supremacists and fundamentalist Christians we’d see how long it lasts…
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