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Originally Posted by Locobot
Ah, thanks for letting me know what my response to your yet-unseen ideas will be. That's a relief whew!
If you can't answer, just admit it. You'd lose much less face than you do by accusing me of trolling.
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Additional troll noted, then ignored.
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You won't corner me by getting me to admit that there are real biological differences between various groups of people that we understand as "races." Thus far, all attempts to define races quantifiably without exception have met with failure.
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Which is why I didn't try. If you weren't so busy trying to discredit statements I didn't make, you would notice I said
"most."
Here's an example for you: If I were stocking a medical clinic in an impoverished area of the US, and most of the residents were black, I would normally stock it with more than the average amount of armamentarium to treat diabetes, since it is more prevalent among blacks.
However, by your reasoning, that would be "racist."
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Are you suggesting we perform various surgeries on people to determine their race before they're allowed on a plane? Streetcorner blood tests? Mandatory truth serum injections? What is the plan?
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While I'm sure you're very proud of the plan you created above, what I'm
suggesting is common sense, something lacking in your idea.
If I saw an urban black kid in a health clinic, and he/she was complaining of fatigue and achey joints, I'd be likely to test for sickle-cell anemia.
If it were a white kid who lived in a rural area of Minnesota, I'd be likely to test for Lyme disease. But then again, I'm a racist.
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Is this or is this not a thread attempting to justify racial profiling?
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No, that's a conclusion you jumped to. If you recall, I didn't post a comment on the lead article. Since you were embarrassed by the article, you attempted to get the thread locked, even though it has now generated 987 views in less than five days.
In fact, my point is essentially the opposite of racial profiling. The ACLU, by injecting issues of race, is compromising the safety of air travel. Chief among their idiocies is that we must celebrate diversity by investigating prospective airline passengers with no consideration of the likelihood of their planning an attack.
It would not take a mental giant of a terrorist to arrange for ten or twelve of his cohorts to be on the same flight. If he was really determined, he could bring along his own ACLU-endorsed attorney to protest loudly if anyone wanted to search more than two or three of his team.
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I recommend you read Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. Oh and do it in the bathroom because I'm fairly sure your head will explode in the process.
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Undoubtedly based on your personal experience.