>Freedom, the idea that kids "dressed as gangster" are out committing crimes a majority of the time they are outside the house is not reasonable.<
Who said "majority"?
Just more often than a middle aged guy, dressed in a suit, that I already know, that is not behaving suspiciously.
Here's a post of mine from a few weeks ago:
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I grew up in an all white neighborhood.
When I was about 10 years old, I got a brand new expensive bicycle. I was riding it near my house when I saw 2 black kids on one bicycle heading my way. My racist instinct was to think "What are these black 2 kids I don't know doing in this neighborhood and why are they both on the same bike". I immediately turned around, sped up, headed for my garage, and put the bike away. When I came out of the garage, I saw them stopped and staring in my direction like they were waiting to see what I was going to do next. I went into the house and that was the end of that.
Later that evening I went out to play with friends. I found out that one of my neighbors was not so fortunate. Two black kids on one bike knocked him off his, took it, and rode off.
Am I bad person because at 10 years old I already understood that virtually all the limited crime in my neighborhood was committed by blacks from outside the neighborhood?
I think not.
I understood that the probability of me getting ripped off were unacceptably higher because they were black kids than if it was 2 white kids I didn't know.
Would it have made me a better person to not judge them specifically because they were black and lose my bike and perhaps even get beat up if I tried to resist?
I think not.
I think I behaved rationally, intelligently etc.. based on the real world I lived in. I profiled and it saved my bike and perhaps a beating.
What would make me a bad person is if I hated all black people for the actions of those 2 kids or went around being violent to random blacks because those 2 black individuals took my friend's bike.
I think not profiling is a kind of denial based mental disorder that increases the probability of bad outcomes and flies right into the face of reality. It's a delusional ideal.
We all want the world to be a certain way, but it's not and we all know it (though some on the left are too delusional to see it). Yet we encourage (in fact legally require in many cases) people to behave in a way that increases the probability they will be harmed for the sake of saying we are not racist. Forget about mental disorders. That's insanity.
I have olive colored skin and a beard. When I get stopped at the airport (perhaps because I fit the profile of a Muslim terrorist better than my fair skinned Irish girlfriend that never gets stopped), I don't resent it at all. I love it! I don't mind flying with a bunch of white Irish women that weren't checked. I have zero fear that any of them are terrorists. However, if you put me on a plane with 20 Muslims I'm going to be popping Xanax like candy unless they were ALL checked. IMO, that's a totally rational and justifiable response. I don't give a rats ass who it offends or how low the probabilities are. The probabilities are greater than I want them to be - which is close to ZERO. I want every last one one of those 20 Muslims checked and I don't care if they let all the Irish, Chinese, Russians, Italians etc... through without doing a thing. And if they are rational human beings, those 20 Muslims would agree with me because it would make them safer too.
I want a world where there is no profiling of blacks, hispanics, middle easterners, rednecks etc.... But I don't want laws that require us to act retarded and pretend we are bad people for recognizing the realities of our world. I want a world where the stats make profiling irrelevant to crime fighting and prevention because everyone is behaving equally. We don't have that world now.
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