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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
Why don't you find the accurate list of planes that have blown up?
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Sweetie...that's not what we are talking about, please try to keep up.
Racial profiling in American airports is the topic...instead of getting frustrated, snarky and making asinine requests for stats....just talk...that's all...I know you are itching for any chance to put me down but damn, JUST TALK to the topic...
Now...as it is, to the topic, part of the problem with profiling in general is that as the public makes generalizations of a particular group overlooking their neighbors.
Thus the 'shock' when you have that 1 'aberration'.
For instance:
How many people were shocked:
- the Virginia Tech was Asian and not a white man?
- the Beltway sniper was black and not Middle Eastern?
- the Oklahoma bomber was a white male and not middle eastern?
- the anthrax attacker was also a white male and not middle eastern?
In some of these cases notably the last one, people play on the public's fears by making it look like another element 'commonly shown' to commit such acts.
ON another tangent but in the same ballpark, see Susan Smith and Charles Stuart.