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Re:TSA Says Theyre Not Discriminating Against Black Women bu... by pranjalv123 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:56PM (#19684288)
If the machines triggered on hairstyles commonly worn by white men, what are the odds that they would have made it to production? Conversely, if the development teams had a significant amount of black women with hairstyles like these, what are the odds that this problem would exist?

The TSA wants to externalize its discrimination to "the machine", but the machine is a product of human systems, and reflects and captures the biases that already exist in society.

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Re:TSA Says Theyre Not Discriminating Against Black Women bu... by helloayo on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @01:46PM (#19684760)
Exactly. This is similar to how women and children kept getting killed or injured by seatbelts simply because no one in the room thought to test for them since no one in the room looked like them.
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