On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:50 AM, silky <[email protected]> wrote: > > Exactly what does a terrorist look like, then? She's implying that > there is some sort of typical model. I'd suggest that a random > samplying combined with some sort of profiling is appropriate, but to > say you don't *look* like a terrorist? Bit racist, in my humble > opinion. > > A terrorist may look like: 1. a "nervous" person, always looking about, 2. someone who wears heavy long clothes when the weather is warm, 3. someone who is travelling without luggage, 4. etc. All of these may ring a bell for a screener. I expect there may be other behavioral cues that screeners are/may be trained for. I'm not saying these specific cues I've given are correct, only that these are potentially valid cues that fall under how someone "looks" while not being racist at all.
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