To be fair, at least you can choose not to wear the cargo pants.
A friend of mine once got pulled aside for extra checks and questioning after he had already gone through the scanners, because he was waiting for me on the other side to walk to the gates together and the agent didn't like that he was "loitering" – guess his ethnicity...
How is it fair to say that? That's some "why did you make me hurt you"-level justification.
No, it's not.
I have shoes that I know always beep on the airport scanners, so if I choose to wear them I know it might take longer or I might have to embarrassingly take them off and put them on the tray. Or I can not wear them.
Yes, in an ideal world we should all travel without all the security theatre, but that's not the world we live in, I can't change the way airports work, but I can wear clothes that make it faster, I can put my liquids in a clear bag, I can have bags that make it easy to take out electronics, etc. Those things I can control.
But people can't change their skin color, name, or passport (well, not easily), and those are also all things you can get held up in airports for.
That's true, if you're saying "I can at least avoid being assaulted by the shitty system", I just want to point out that it is a shitty system.
I fully agree with you on that, it is a shitty system :)
> guess his ethnicity...
Not sure, but I bet they were looking at their feet kinda dusting off the bottoms, making awkward eye contact with the security guard on the other side of the one way door.