Profiling Males

I expect the same people who are ticked off at the idea of U.S. security forces using racial profiling to search for terrorists in airline passengers to express a little outrage over this.

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  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Haven’t we been hearing lately about Female Sex Perv teachers taking advantage of their children.

    Like someone said, they better be moving me to first class or they’d be in beaucoup troble.

  • LoadTheMule

    Where the hell is Norm Minetta when you need him?

    Regards…

  • Dave

    Yeah, and (I’m guessing) 95% of pedophiles are males. That doesn’t mean that a person’s sex is a reliable indicator of that person’s level of criminality.

    If 95% of men were pedohpiles (yikes!), then I’d understand this policy. Since, in reality, 0.001% of men are pedophiles, it’s a waste of time and public resources to profile them, in any way.

  • Dave

    Maybe I have my people confused… a story came out a couple months ago about a man who was forced off an airplane because he had an inappropriate t-shirt, and I was pretty sure you were the one who argued against his Constitutional right to travel. I may have been mistaken.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    One would think that they would have a valid reasoning behind the profiling.

    Follow the hypothetical.

    1. We want to keep terrorists off of greyhound buses.

    2. 97% of known terrorists were male, under the age of 50 and of Scandahoovian descent.

    3. The bus driver should give Scandahoovians males under 50 a bit of extra attention. This is in addition to watching for those acting funny in other ways.

    Under those circumstances I’d accept the fact that I was a member of the profiled class.

  • Dave

    Profiling is always fine and dandy until you’re the one being profiled…

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Yeah, and (I’m guessing) 95% of pedophiles are males. That doesn’t mean that a person’s sex is a reliable indicator of that person’s level of criminality.

    Yeah it does. Your next point affirms it…

    Since, in reality, 0.001% of men are pedophiles, it’s a waste of time and public resources to profile them, in any way.

    Oh…it’s probably a bit more than one out of 100,000. I’m sure that there are more than 3,000 pedophiles out of a population of 300 million. Just a sad hunch…

  • Mike

    If they are moving him from one aisle seat to another aisle seat in a different row then what’s the big f-ing deal. I see people move seats all the time on airplanes and don’t think anything of it, hell I’ve been asked to move so a family could sit together, it’s no big deal! If the guy didn’t want to switch, I’m sure he could have just said no and they would have moved the kid instead. It’s the timing of the request and the lack of cooperation that would cause a scene to the other passengers, not his actual moving of seats.

    It says more about you being a whiny a**hole to complain about being offended by something so minuscule. And to sue is even more ridiculous. Grow up.

    Don’t get me wrong, the policy is stupid and ridiculous, but it is nothing to get your panties in a bunch about.

  • Dave

    My apologies. Yeah, my memory really butchered that post. Sorry for accusing you of saying something you didn’t say, Rob.

  • Dave

    Plus, as Rob has in the past argued against a Constitutional right to travel, I’m not sure where the outrage originates from.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    a story came out a couple months ago about a man who was forced off an airplane because he had an inappropriate t-shirt, and I was pretty sure you were the one who argued against his Constitutional right to travel. I may have been mistaken.

    I figured that was what you were talking about. It was about a woman wearing a shirt saying “Meet the Fuckers” with faces from the Bush administration on it. Southwest Airlines asked her to cover it up, but later it inadvertantly (according to the woman) came uncovered again and Southwest felt it was enough of a reason to kick her off the flight.

    The post is here.

    My argument was that it was perfectly acceptable for Southwest Airlines to eject her. She has free speech rights, of course, but Southwest Airlines certainly has the legal ability to moderate decorum on their property. They weren’t discriminating based on politics, gender, race or creed but rather just behavior. And, judging from the way the story was told in the article, I found Southwest Airline’s actions perfectly reasonable and acceptable.

    From a brief perusal of that thread, I don’t think that anyone argued against a Constitutional right to travel.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    No problems. I’ve done the same thing. Given the number of posts/comments on this blog, its an easy thing to do.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Plus, as Rob has in the past argued against a Constitutional right to travel, I’m not sure where the outrage originates from.

    I have?

    Wow. News to me.

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