You are accidentally correct in saying that there is no conspiracy to oppress minorities. Conspiracy implies that it's hidden. It isn't.
We have mountains of malicious intent established and chronicled to the point where the burden of proof is not on those downstream of that malice to substantiate it. That mountain is conveniently labeled "American policing and jurisprudence relating thereto, 1620-Present".
> There's a problem with people smuggling dangerous items on to aircraft
That problem is a vanishingly small rounding error and the good-faith effort to fix it would be more air marshals. Instead, we get nonsense like this which, because the scanning devices look scary and dehumanize those who go through them, entrench a threat in the minds of the populace--because a threat must be serious, otherwise why would we be putting ourselves through all this?
These tools exist to scare people into seeking solutions to the problem they purport to, and yet do not, solve.
While we can see people disagree if this is discrimination or not, everyone agree that the system employed by the TSA is ineffective, humiliating and security theater. Air marshals are better. Dog patrols are great.
Only in areas which is very close to war would current methods be necessary, but you also need multiple checks which manually going through every single item in luggage and backpacks. This is only really possible in low traffic airports, which destinations close to wars usually is.
We have mountains of malicious intent established and chronicled to the point where the burden of proof is not on those downstream of that malice to substantiate it. That mountain is conveniently labeled "American policing and jurisprudence relating thereto, 1620-Present".
> There's a problem with people smuggling dangerous items on to aircraft
That problem is a vanishingly small rounding error and the good-faith effort to fix it would be more air marshals. Instead, we get nonsense like this which, because the scanning devices look scary and dehumanize those who go through them, entrench a threat in the minds of the populace--because a threat must be serious, otherwise why would we be putting ourselves through all this?
These tools exist to scare people into seeking solutions to the problem they purport to, and yet do not, solve.