profiling

[Tom Zurinskas]

We don't want to alienate the aliens more alien than they already are?  Perhaps aliens are too alien to be alienated.  I'm not alienated against aliens whether they're alienated or not.  I'm just sayin'...


Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 9.
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> Poster: Jonathan Lighter
> Subject: Re: profiling
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> On CNN, an opponent of a bill in the Georgia State Legistature to make it
> harder on illegal immigrants:
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> "We're alienating, we're discriminating against, and we're profiling against
> the immigrant community."
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> Note the addition of "against." That suggests that the operative idea is
> indeed broad discrimination rather than constabulary "profiling."
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> JL
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> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> > wrote:
> > > To me, "profiling" (or "ethnic profiling" as it was originally called for
> > > about fifteen minutes) is a relatively methodical process (the potential
> > > perp has X, Y, and Z characteristics, etc., etc., that we got lectured on
> > at
> > > the station house, etc., etc.).
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> > The suspect must "fit the description." FTD has become a catchphrase,
> > in some circles.
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> > A character in a Japanese cartoon spoke of the need to have the
> > ability to "profile criminal minds."
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> > -Wilson
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> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> > to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
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