Racial Profiling is Good

Then every citizen who looks suspisious should. If China has a rash of bominbings by a certain racial group whomever it is, they should profile. There is nothing wrong with it. China im sure does it to not let foregeiners into its secret communist system unless they look Chinese.

And America stands for the following:




Deep

There are two people in line to board the airplane. One of these people is Arabic, and is on his knees praying to Allah. The other person standing there is a middle aged white American holding his glasses in one hand, briefcase in the other.

If you were working security, who would you look at more as a potential threat? The Arabic man, or the Caucasian man?

We are racial profiling, and we are doing it quietly in situations like these.

Originally posted by GODFLESH
There are two people in line to board the airplane. One of these people is Arabic, and is on his knees praying to Allah. The other person standing there is a middle aged white American holding his glasses in one hand, briefcase in the other.

If you were working security, who would you look at more as a potential threat? The Arabic man, or the Caucasian man?

We are racial profiling, and we are doing it quietly in situations like these.

First of all, when was the last time you saw anyone praying at an airport? Let alone facing east towards Mecca. Secondly, I think the situation would actually be two people holding their glasses in one hand and a briefcase in the other, it just happens that one kinda looks "middle eastern" and the other is white, which one do you check? Don't you think that terrorist try to fit in and look like others, so as to not draw unwanted attention to themselves? While you are snapping on the latex gloves ready to check the darker guys colon, you are going to miss the white guy who just got laid off from boeing, his wife left him for another women, and he just found out that his mutual funds are tanking because someone put 90% of it into diebold?(I haven't checked the diebold ticker, but you get my drift)

As I and others pointed out, there was no call to "profile" anyone after oklahoma and the uni-bomber, so why start now?....oh, could it be becuase you look like them, so they can't be all bad? All of you who think we need it need to take a trip to a place where americans get profiled and see how you like a full-fisted rectal exam because you are white. Give me a break, you people just want to have something to justify you own racist beliefs.

bentov

Originally posted by IBM
Then every citizen who looks suspisious should. If China has a rash of bominbings by a certain racial group whomever it is, they should profile. There is nothing wrong with it. China im sure does it to not let foregeiners into its secret communist system unless they look Chinese.

This is a different view from which you shared in your original post, you generalized that everybody of a certain race should recieve such treatment, not just the ones that look suspisious. I must say that the reminants of your personally credibility disapate when you alter your views mid-arguement.

I Think he meant 'RADICAL Profiling'.....that's what it is..You talk about keeping eyes open for tigers and not deer ...Then Explain WHY they Are PROFILING EVERYBODY....not only 'TIGERS?'.....

Originally posted by SiRiNO

Originally posted by instar
No it dosent sound stupid. WE ARE all the same race. I never said we were all clones. The "differences" you keep harping about are asthetic and cultural and enviromental, no more. WTF has that got to do with profiling people as "likely terrorist" or " suspicious Muslim?" Its not biology its bigotry!

Asthetic? What is asthetic about muscle fibres and being geneticly prone to certain diseases? Cultural? No. Environmental? No, sorry wrong again. These are biological differences.


I am countering the claims by individuals that there is only one race, or no races at all.

Think of it like this, a breed of dog is a zoological construct and genetically equivalent to a race of man.

Sirino mate, I understand full well what your saying. One man is called "oriental" the other "caucasian" because the look superficially different and originate from different nations, this is what you call races.
But if i cut both of them with a knife they will both bleed red blood.
I think you can agree with that. I think you can also agree that the dna of both, while having genectic difference will be the same neverthe less. This because they are both of THE (as in only) human race. Your quibbling technicalities.
Fact is that neither mans apperaence makes either more or less likely to be a terrorist or to commit a crime. This is my point. your "racial profiling" is simply assuming a person of given, nationality, appearence or religios persuasion is more likely than another to be suspect. This is an incorrect and biased assumption leading to persecution of a particular group of people. It is Not a reliable means of detecting suspect activity.


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If you gave Osama a bath, he would look like the many jesus figures in churches.

Profiling is good racial profiling is just sloppy police work.

Do a google image search for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and tell me that racial profiling is still a good idea.

Originally posted by boogyman
Profiling is good racial profiling is just sloppy police work.

Do a google image search for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and tell me that racial profiling is still a good idea.

Yes it is still good.

Originally posted by boogyman
Profiling is good racial profiling is just sloppy police work.

Do a google image search for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and tell me that racial profiling is still a good idea.

Yes it is still good.

Originally posted by boogyman
Profiling is good racial profiling is just sloppy police work.

Do a google image search for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and tell me that racial profiling is still a good idea.

Profiling is needed, but with common sense.

If a woman and child are going through security, followed by a Arab, a black and an Asian, and the guards had to pick someone to search, then they should use common sense, and frisk the person that most fits the description of a terrorist.

If I am white, driving through Chicago on my way to a restaurant, I have to pass through a certain neighborhood that is majority African American. I have been pulled over by the police before and asked what I was doing in this neighborhood. That is also racial profiling. Though whites flock to this area for drugs, the cops should not pull over every person that fits the 'description' over. If they same happened to a black person driving through an affluent white neighborhood, the police would be in big trouble for profiling.

peace

Funny he doesnt look very arabic to me... looks more like an an African then an Arab but hey what do I know right?

Is your "profile" going to catch the Chechen terrorists that are rumored to have entered the US through Mexico?
Chechen terrorists probed

Still confident that just checking "Arab looking" men is this countries best bet?

Sorry this was a dbl post