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Why is racial profiling bad? --not my question, don't report me.?

Don't report me, this is not my question. Someone asked it and I answered it but when I clicked, "Submit", the question had already been deleted. The reason I am posting this here is I cannot believe people still think this way-actually, I'm not surprised at all-but it's still extremely ignorant and wrong. Here is my argument against it.

Because it's wrong...

If someone raped a woman and the cops had a choice between a Caucasian man and an African man and if the African man had no connection whatsoever to the woman but the Caucasian man did, who is the better suspect? Maybe you would say the African man, simply because his skin is brown? That simply defies all senses of logic because it doesn't matter what race they are, it only matters what evidence they have.

And for the Middle Easterner blowing up planes? Please. The only reason we think that is because it's easy to see what race people are. Most people get scared when they see a Muslim on their plane because of those terrorist attacks. But what about Caucasian attackers? If those terrorist attacks were done by French people, would you be scared if a Caucasian was on your plane? No.

The only reason people are scared of things like this is because those races are different. They are different from you so you don't know what to expect even though they are part of the same human race as you and I-only of different races and ethnicity. I know some African-Americans. There are some who are squeaky clean. And I know some that are not. But that's the same with any race, ethnicity, color, religion, sexual orientation, etc etc... I also know many Muslims (oh, and not all Muslims are Middle Eastern... Yes, it's predominately there but it's a religion.) and no, they have never blown up a plane before. In fact, they're teachers, accountants, and doctors. Some of the Muslims and Middle Easterners I know haven't even been on a plane in several years.

But you're right, rapes are primarily in the African-American culture but that's not a "black" problem, that's a city culture problem. And when it comes down to it, no intelligent person is going to indict someone for rape, without sufficient evidence, just for being African-American. And the Middle Eastern terrorist problem? The problem isn't Middle Easterners, the problem is the terrorist groups that are headquartered in the Middle East because of their political views. No intelligent person is going to indict someone for attempting to blow up a plane, without sufficient evidence, just because their ethnicity is of the Middle East.

Everything comes down to the person themselves and the evidence we find-not statistics.

Don't report me. This is not my question. I am against racial profiling and the above was my argument. Please comment and share your opinions.

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  • Ghira
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    Racial profiling is bad because cops (and some parts of society) are interested in people SOLELY because their skin is not white.

    I didn't read your entire post, but when people are fed negative media images and don't have the time/inclination/facts to research them - they just accept them at face value. Some media outlets STILL don't say criminals are "caucasion" or "white" because they assume their ENTIRE audience is white.

    Anyway, there are good AND bad people of every race. Singling out someone (like that cop that wouldn't let the pro NFLer be with his dying MIL after the NURSE came and and said the woman was literally on her death bed) speaks volumes as to why racial profiling is demeaning and hurtful.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i have never been so insulted ,its my ginger hair and bottle glasses is'nt it, he he no honestly your points are valid and have integrity unlike so many, this place is a madhouse ;)

  • 1 decade ago

    becuase it hurts people's feeeeeelings

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