Good thing I came early to the airport as I had to wait about half an hour while the Dutch border folks racially profiled an Arab man traveling with his elderly relative who was using a wheelchair.

I guess old habits die hard.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64647272

(In case you were wondering if things are perfect here, they’re not. The bad is the Netherlands perpetually feels about five minutes away from being a police state.)

#netherlands #schipol #racialProfiling #border

Dutch border police told to stop ethnic profiling

Campaigners hail the ruling after judges find that profiling was used without justification.

^{Paul Kirby (BBC News)}