Thread: Affirmative Action: Politically Correct Racial Profiling?

Why is the illogical sold as good and sound when the exact opposite is true?

Affirmative Action: Politically Correct Racial Profiling?

By John Lillpop
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Why is it that racial profiling is seen as a mortal sin when used to enforce the rule of law and protect America from terrorism and invasion by foreign aliens, but perfectly valid when it comes to doling out benefits and goodies?

For example, affirmative action requires that students be profiled based on race, so that minorities can receive preferential treatment based solely on race.

Applicants who identify themselves as Hispanic are automatically given preference based on racial profiling.

On the other hand, moon bats think it is immoral and un-American to ask a Hispanic to produce “papersâ€

Why is it that racial profiling is seen as a mortal sin when used to enforce the rule of law and protect America from terrorism and invasion by foreign aliens, but perfectly valid when it comes to doling out benefits and goodies?

Makes sense! It is being used to tie the hands of the American people and I believe that it is destroying our country!

JAK you got it right that it ties the hands (and shuts the mouths) of American people, but it also creates a sense of entitlement and dependency on gov't (and loyalty) in the people who benefit from such programs.