More Racial Profiling Bullshit from the Malkins and Friends

Heather Mac Donald on Racial Profiling on National Review Online


Michelle and Jesse Malkin approvingly cite a column by Heather Mac Donald on National Review Online that endorses racial profiling against swarthy people. Her argument revolves around comparing the investigation of a cross burning by Klansmen on the lawn of a black family vs. searching bags on the New York subway system to stop Islamic terrorists. Surely once a cross has been burned by Klansmen on the lawn of a black family the police can set eliminate local blacks as suspects, right?*

The obvious difference between these two situations is that in the case of the cross burning we're talking about a crime that has already taken place. In the case of trying to stop terrorism on the New York subway system, we're talking about a crime that hasn't taken place and will probably never take place.

If immediately following a bomb explosion on the subway a group of "Middle Eastern looking" men is encountered running from a flaming subway car that has "Death to the Infidels!" spraypainted on it, by all means, stop them.

The idea being floated is that brown, shifty-lookin' folks should be subject to more scrutiny because we think that someday one of them might try to blow up a train is asinine.

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*Except in the cases when minorities stage crimes against themselves to elicit sympathy or to dodge responsibility, one of the Malkins' favorite topics - a phenomenon that they revel in regularly drawing attention to as part of their campaign to denigrate the darker races. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

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