Article on Political Correctness and profiling

[Hoosier]

Profiling, stereotypes, etc exists for a reason whether people want to admit it or not. It's not paranoia..... It's proven not to be a bunch of white girls on a ski team from Norway who are committing "acts of violence and terrorism".

What proof? Just because none from those subgroups have attacked yet, doesn't mean they're incapable of it. And more to the point, if you make an exception for female Norwegian ski teams, then it behooves the terrorists to convert one, or get one of their own into whatever group has a free pass through security.

The only way to "win" is to increase screening for everyone. This carries a cost though, in that everyone is additionally hassled. The real truth here is the axiom that "Security is equal to one over convenience."

H.

[BigBear]

What proof? Just because none from those subgroups have attacked yet, doesn't mean they're incapable of it. And more to the point, if you make an exception for female Norwegian ski teams, then it behooves the terrorists to convert one, or get one of their own into whatever group has a free pass through security.

The only way to "win" is to increase screening for everyone. This carries a cost though, in that everyone is additionally hassled. The real truth here is the axiom that "Security is equal to one over convenience."

H.

Proof that the Norwegian female ski teams hasn't committed any crimes? ... ok, well they have nothing on record as a group or individually!!

My point was simply stating that profiling and sterotypes exist for a reason. If the terrorists wanted to convert a female Norwegian skier, then let 'em try. That wasn't the point. My point was that even though ever ethinicity/skin color/etc has some agregious and atrocious crime/genocide/whatever on their hands, sterotyping/profiling serves a purpose. In that, how many white Americans or even Illegal Mexicans do you see hijacking planes or blowing themselves up in market places, etc?

It's just a different side of thought. My personal thought is that the only way to "win" is not to increase screening for everyone. It's to wipe the "problem" off the face of the Earth without mercy... The whole "live and let live"... but then we get into the whole problem of "turn the other cheek and forgive"...and that opens a whole other paradox/conundrum/fight that I won't even get into as it seems some people on here tend to get a little viscious about certain topics...

[Elhuero]

The only way to "win" is stow political correctness, then seek out the extremists and kill them wherever they are.

[theGinsue]

Now that's a plan I can get behind.

[Byte Stryke]

The only way to "win" is stow political correctness, then seek out the extremists and kill them wherever they are.

You know its gonna be a long week when you agree with the "ElHuero"

[Troublco]

The only way to "win" is stow political correctness, then seek out the extremists and kill them wherever they are.

Now that's a plan I can get behind.

You know its gonna be a long week when you agree with the "ElHuero"

When you're right, you're right.


This is one of those problems best fixed with large amounts of high explosive and belt fed automatic weapons.

[theGinsue]

This is one of those problems best fixed with large amounts of high explosive and belt fed automatic weapons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAhVmjptZMI