tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post8518668909248471558..comments2024-03-18T22:21:33.261-07:00Comments on The Debate Link: They Love Us for Our Freedoms?David Schraubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-51423868764584751402010-10-24T13:08:27.996-07:002010-10-24T13:08:27.996-07:00David,
How is it racism to target those who have ...David,<br /><br />How is it racism to target those who have a known history of hijacking and blowing up planes, most especially planes from Israel? And, how is it anything but inefficient and stupid to worry about settlers potentially hijacking planes or blowing them up? I think your analysis - even though you refuse to employ a bright line boundary - is simply wrong headed.<br /><br />Your perspective elevates race into a property right that is to be balanced against the most fundamental human right of all - to survive. I cannot imagine how targeting those likely to blow up or hijack planes is anything but reasonable self-defense, about which one need not be remotely apologetic or subject to PC type race analysis. And, to suggest that it might somehow be better also to target those who have no inclination to so act is, as I see it, not reasonable, not liberal and not wise.N. Friedmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-76170413554740585012010-10-24T10:21:13.386-07:002010-10-24T10:21:13.386-07:00We'll make a consequentialist out of you yet!We'll make a consequentialist out of you yet!joenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-67231970139446491682010-10-24T10:16:22.570-07:002010-10-24T10:16:22.570-07:00Not really -- that post was pretty keyed into spec...Not really -- that post was pretty keyed into specific contexts of the American racial and criminal contexts. On face it wasn't making observations about any/all potential system of racial (or religious, in this case) profiling.<br /><br />I'm deeply uncomfortable with this sort of profiling (in Israel -- as I think this post makes clear -- or elsewhere), but that post was not a call for a "bright line rule against it". My bigger problem with Israel's system of profiling is that (I suspect -- I actually don't know) it doesn't sufficiently profile folks who fit the profile of a right-wing settler nationalist. It's only concerned with certain <i>types</i> of crime and criminal activity (and certain types of victims), and the distributional consequences of that determination are difficult to justify.David Schraubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-74071131609710833662010-10-24T10:07:46.094-07:002010-10-24T10:07:46.094-07:00Is it your position that aggressive racial profili...Is it your position that aggressive racial profiling can be necessary? Because in the past you seem to have been comfortable drawing a <a href="http://dsadevil.blogspot.com/2007/08/profile.html" rel="nofollow">bright line rule against it</a> in spite of general approval of race conscious policies.<br /><br />I have no argument to make on this point. It just seems like a striking contradiction. Make of it what you will.joenoreply@blogger.com