If I went to an airport I would be racially profiled...I get racially profiled walking through the Mall if I have a beard. I don't mind the profile at the airport, but the mall, its annoying!!!!
Think about it: Whose more likely to bomb a building: White Man or Man who looks Arab (although an umpteen number of Arabs look caucasian as they are mixed racially)?
Coloured Man more likely to be a terrorist.
So I'd support singling them out and asking them a few more questions at the airport/border crossing.
Probability Dictates so. Unfortunately this sets a bad precedent and should only occur during times of stress: ie. War.
2006-07-16 10:16:05 · 14 answers · asked by VS 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Anyone remember the DC area sniper profile? They claimed a white guy and all that crap only to be a black guy. Profiling will make peoplethat are guilty to likely escape because they did not fit the "profile". Its not justified.
2006-07-16 10:44:30 · answer #1 · answered by Prince O Zamunda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well If A White Man Just Robbed The Bank,Is A Smart Cop Going To Start Rounding Up All The Black Guys In The Neighbor Hood?Not A Smart Cop...Yes Call A Raghead A Raghead and see What He Wants To Bring On Da Plane Boss
2006-07-16 17:22:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Laws are made to help people live together in a more and more complex society. As the world become more crowded, natural resources are depleted, cost of living and other external pressures increase that impact society, it becomes more and more important that ways are found to protect the greater (sometimes at the inconvenience of the lesser).
Because terrorists are willing to do awful things without regard to the good of civilization, I think it is imperative that we stop worrying about our own rights when we are in high conflict areas (such as the airport) and start thinking in terms of the greater body.
Until ways are discovered to be more effective in finding the bad guys, I think racial profiling is one of several tools that have to be employed.
2006-07-16 17:26:35 · answer #3 · answered by The Answer Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it is not ever justified. The answer to these probelms lies with addressing the root causes, not by building walls or targeting certain "undesirables" in our society.
Racial profiling is an indicator that the "terrorists" actually succeeded in terrorizing the American people. When people are scared they come up with paranoid, irrational conclusions, and as a result, stupid decisions are made. Racial profiling is one such bad idea, derived from fear, ineffective and outside of the ways that the problems could be solved.
its nonsense really...
2006-07-16 17:24:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ethnic and racial profiling is a must.
Why pat down an 80 year old Asian grandmother at the airport? To satisfy some idiotic rule against profiling because of the ACLU or any other money grubbing scum lawyer? Current rules are ludicrous.
Typical for politicians with no spine and no leadership ability.
2006-07-16 17:30:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In a logical country (this U.S. is no longer one), profiling is legal. And if race is part of the legitimate profile, then it should be used. If a black man (or white or brown or plaid) snatches a purse and police are in pursuit, they don't say, "We're looking for a man." They say, "We're looking for a black man (or white or whatever)."
So if Arab Muslims have declared war on the United States, then we should be keeping an eye out for Arab Muslims. Just like when the Japanese declared war on us in 1945.
2006-07-16 17:23:00 · answer #6 · answered by Farly the Seer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you not understand about ensuring public safety?
If bombers were white thirty year old men in pinstripe suits would you not want them checked out?
If the person fitting the description you give of yourself is three yards behind you and carrying a suicide belt would you not want them identified and dealt with before you were maimed or killed?
I do not mind being searched, routinely questioned or any other small inconvenience if it saves the life of just one innocent person and it may even save my life.
This is the real life. We have to accept the reality we live in.
2006-07-16 17:24:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Profiling is justified and NECESSARY! However, in the US, the left is so obsessed with this politically correct culture that it will never happen. Along with their friends in the ACLU and NAACP, profiling will never see the light of day, they will make sure of it.
Right now in America the terrorists have more rights than we do. They are allowed to kill without being persecuted because the left does not want to hurt their feelings or make them uncomfortable in any way.
2006-07-16 17:47:10 · answer #8 · answered by Christopher 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not only justified its necessary. Think about it this way if you were marketing a product you would narrow down who your target consumer is whether it be by race, waist size,gender,etc.,etc. That's precisely what racial profiling is its narrowing it down to who is most likely to commit a certain crime or crimes. Just as not all fat people consume twinkies not all Arab's are terrorist but you still gotta find out if that fat guys wants a twinkie and you still gotta find out if that Arab's got a bomb on him.
2006-07-16 17:36:14 · answer #9 · answered by wow_whataguy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The problem is not with making behavioral predictions based on a perceived race, and by implication the associated culture, but with making reasonably accurate perceptions relative to the circumstances at hand.
2006-07-16 17:25:45 · answer #10 · answered by Grist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋