The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal

Re:The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal by mlrtime on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @06:57AM (#46869881)

When all you see is color, everything different is racism.

I'm the whitest white person you'll find, white bread and turkey sandwich. I get screened all the time. Most of the time the agents are not white, WTF would I blame the color of their skin?

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Re:The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal by Ar-Curunir on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @07:29AM (#46870193)

Are you seriously pretending that state-sponsored racism is not a thing? In today’s environment?

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Re:The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal by cpburns2009 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @09:06AM (#46871141)

Generic WASP checking in. I flew regularly for several years until covid and I'd get screened all the time too (about 50% of the time).

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Re:The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal by array_key_first on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:39AM (#46872333)

This just in, white person thinks racism isn't real. "Well, I've never experienced it", he says.

More at 11.

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Re:The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal by int_19h on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @08:14PM (#46880045)

Many ICE agents are Latino but it doesn't stop them racially profiling other Latinos.

When it comes to customs & border, it's more about being "ethnically terrorist", which is more so Middle Eastern than Black in US at this particular moment in time.

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Re:The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal by mlrtime on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @07:04AM (#46884843)

Not everything in the world is about ICE. It is a hot topic right now, but is like 0.001% of security/law enforcement, profiling etc..

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