Thread: FBI Teaches Agents: "Mainstream" Muslims are 'Violent, Radical' (Wired.com)

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Oh... why are you talking about that? This thread is about grouping people together without any reason other than they look similar and assuming certain groups of people are dangerous. Read the title of the thread.

I was responding to your posts which were off-topic of the thread. You made a claim about how people should be profiled, I refuted it.

No, I made a claim about how people ARE profile. No one SHOULD be profiled, it's illegal.

Okay so next time a man robs a bank the cops should just pull everyone in from the whole neighborhood rather than narrow their search down to people that actually match the description. Genius.

That is not profiling, that's matching a description to someone who has already committed a crime. They don't describe them as black, colour will be part of the description, but there is also height, approximate weight, identifying marks. Profiling is saying all mainstream muslims are violent radicals, then treating them all as such.

I was never talking about that kind of profiling. It's not even relevant to the argument we were having. You were saying all dark people are black. I'm saying that's not true and if the cops used that as a means to catch people they'd fuck up a lot more than they already do.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

No, cops shouldn't racially profile at all. The 4th and 14th amendments both ban it. Not that cops don't do that, which is the point of the OP article.

No, of course not. (Though I do not agree with the reasons you listed ). But that was hardly my point.