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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (105485)5/31/2005 11:37:32 AM
From: The Philosopher   of 108807
 
So if you want to call it profiling, fine

It's not what I call it that matters. It's what it is.

You apparently based your assumption on the fact that he grew up in a certain area and had a certain sounding surname.

But if the Bush administration had a policy that everybody who grew up in Saudi Arabia and had a Muslim-sounding name should be more highly suspected of being a terrorist than someone who grew up in Ohio with the name of Smith, well, we know what the ACLU would say about that, don't we?
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