Maybe Profiling Isn't Such A Bad Idea?

[anarchist_nomad]

Dylann Roof
Elliot Rodger
Adam Lanza
James Holmes
Jared Loughner

Need I continue?

Perhaps we should start a random 'stop and frisk' type screening for white USAmerican males who are roughly between the ages of 16 and 25?[*]

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[*] Yes, I know they don't account for all the mass shootings. You've got Seung-Hui Cho (Korean), Wade Michael Page (40), Aaron Alexis (black), and so on. But the list is definitely disproportionately young white men.

Comments

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

You know, it's been nearly 50 years since Jane Elliott and the "Blue Eyes / Brown Eyes" experiment. Half a century!

You would think we would have learned by now that race is a made-up construct, and stop being so damn racist.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

I remember that - it was a schoolteacher's idea for trying to help her all-white class understand racism, the day after Martin Luther King was killed. (I was in my junior year at Hofstra at the time.) Like all the other hippies, I'd been overcome by a scalding sense of injustice that started with the first "sit-in" a few years earlier. As you point out, why haven't we learned anything since then? Dammit, we're all just PEOPLE!