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MangyTiger
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Message 79 of 90 (174226)
01-05-2005 8:59 PM 		Reply to: Message 28 by Rrhain
01-02-2005 10:08 PM

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And that means you, Hangdawg13.
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Logically, it doesn't mean him.
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Incorrect. It means precisely him.
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And you, too, mike. White, Christian males are the most common terrorism perpetrators in the United States.
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Shouldn't that be White, Christian American males ? I'm not aware that any terrorist acts have been perpetrated by British Christians in the US (in modern times before someone digs up something from the Revolutionary War ). Therefore people like MTW and myself should be given express passage through the security checks - and free upgrades to First Class wouldn't go amiss.
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Darn - just remembered I'm an agnostic not a Christian. Mind you, I could fake it for that upgrade to First.
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Maybe that would just show up the shortcomings of profiling though...
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(Edited so it makes a bit more sense)
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This message has been edited by MangyTiger, 01-05-2005 23:04 AM
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MangyTiger
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01-08-2005 10:56 AM 		Reply to: Message 81 by Rrhain
01-08-2005 4:40 AM

And I want to say that I had heard that some IRA people were trained in Afghanistan with Al Qaeda, but that's fuzzy.
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I hadn't heard that one - what is true however is that the IRA received both training and finance from Libya during the 70s and 80s and it looks pretty likely that they were training FARC in Columbia within the last couple of years. At the risk of digreesing I always found it surprising that so many Americans were willing to actively support an organisation that is fairly extremely left wing - in fact the Official IRA (which the Provisional IRA split from in 1970) was a Marxist organisation.
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My understanding is that profiling is actually somewhat effective. The problem is that the current uses of it as being discussed by the right are outrageously simplistic as if a single category like race or religious affiliation were sufficient or even the most significant predictor.
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I agree - sorry I didn't make it clear I was thinking of the simplistic approach you describe.
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