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I've been exposed to social profiling. I was traveling with a large group of university students to a residential life conference in Minnesota, and one of my colleagues was pulled out of our group to be randomly searched at every airport we stopped at because of his visible piercings and tattoos. He was quite relaxed about it, and said it was par for the course given his ornamentation, that he'd gotten used to it. His attitude about it, and his willingness to be incredibly polite when it happened, often left security staff chagrined.
I do think it is a problem. It's certainly not a good thing. I'm not sure what to do about it, though.
Oddly, I saw a South Park episode about this just a couple of nights ago.
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