On 12/22/04 7:16 PM, wrote the following:
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:43:10 GMT, Mitty wrote:


It is unfortunate that the "political correctness police" have hijacked a
perfectly innocent phrase and made it pejorative.



It is always "perfectly innocent" when it is not your ox being gored.

It might seriously affect your point of view if you are the one who
gets subjected to a patdown, strip search, detailed luggage
examination and other interminable delays every time you travel, while
your fellow citizens pass freely through the gates, simply because of
the color of your skin. You would soon join the "politically
correct", I am sure.

IMHO you need to take some courses that teach logical thinking. It makes
absolutely no difference what the members of the selected subset think about the
screening if the selection criteria meaningfully increase the probability of
catching bad guys. If they do not, that is a different matter.

And, BTW, nowhere have I suggested or seen suggested that "skin color" is a good
screening criterion. It almost certainly is not. "Young Muslim males" may well
be, however.

For now, no doubt, you would be happy to see the metal detectors
labeled "dark-skinned" and "light-skinned", and we could all line up
at our respective stations, and those of us lucky enough to be
"light-skinned" beings could enjoy the express service.

Those lucky enough to be in low risk groups certainly will enjoy the express
service. People objectively concerned about safety should be pleased that
resources are not wasted on screening low risk groups just to be PC. For
example, I would be very pleased to see Chinese grandmothers passed with minimal
screening.

I am always amused by how one's view of "political correctness"
changes in direct proportion with the direction in which the dirty
end of the "political correctness" stick points.

I am glad that you find your own strawmen to be amusing.

This thread is waay too OT. I'm outa here.