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Subject: Re: Racial Profiling - Semi-vent


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Raisinmom
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Date Posted: 16:19:30 10/11/02 Fri
In reply to: Jen 's message, "Re: Racial Profiling - Semi-vent" on 16:01:07 10/11/02 Fri
 >If we're going to profile terrorists, what about youg
>white ex-military Christian males? I mean, until
>9/11, the worst terrorist act perpetrated on American
>soil was committed by Tim McVeigh, and the
>anti-government radical group(s) that shared his views
>are full of white Midwestern men.

Actually, I think the surveillance and police groups have indeed started to take note of such groups. They can't be "profiled" in the same way as Arabs, however, because white are the majority here and the crazy US-government-is-not-valid-and-can't-tax-me types don't often wear that affiliation in a visible way.

Look at what happened to the scores of
>totally innocent American citizens of Japanese descent
>who were rounded up like cattle during WWII and stuck
>into camps (gee, not unlike the Nazis here)

I have to object to glibly comparing this to Nazis, not because what the US did was OK -- it was awful -- but because what the Nazis did is far, far worse and in a whole different sphere. The Nazis didn't just round people up and put them into camps to prevent them from being able to rebel or contact the enemy; they did it to kill those people, methodically. Extermination was the goal. The camps were generally killing fields or for hard labor. I see where you're going, I suppose, but I find this sort of "oh, rather like the Nazis" comment insensitive.

>In any event, lack of profiling is not what led to
>9/11.

I didn't say it did.
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