[Ads-l] profiling

[Dave Wilton]

I think he's using it in the sense of categorizing someone based on ethnicity or religion. In this case, though, the profiling is positive (sports hero) as opposed to the usual negative (terrorist), which may be what's confusing. Also "liberals" consider profiling to be bad, so Obama is, in Trump's view, being hypocritical. It makes a kind of sense, sort of. 

Of course, the logic doesn't stand up to scrutiny, but it's less otiose than most of Trump's blathering.



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Donald Trump has tweeted his condolences over the death of Muhammad Ali.

Last December, however, after President Obama asserted that Muslims were among "our sports heroes," Mr. Trump tweeted, "What sport is he talking about, and who? Is Obama profiling?"

Q:  What is the meaning of "profiling" as used by a leading candidate for the Presidency of the United States?  Or is the question odiously otiose?

JL

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net> wrote:
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> It strikes me as nothing more than the same kind of middle-voice 
> alternation you get with "embarrass," "frighten," "print" (your 
> receipt is printing), etc.
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> Neal
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> On 3/14/2013 9:05 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
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>> The use of  "profile" below seems to be under the influence of French "se profiler" or German "sich profilieren" (or both). Maybe other European languages have this usage too.
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>> Gerald Cohen
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>> Jonathan Lighter wrote, March 14, 2013 4:50 PM:
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>> Inglish marches on.  CNN, Feb. 28
>> http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/28/es.05.html  :
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>> "But one thing that they would be almost unanimously saying is that 
>> the next pope has to profile as a reformer on the sex abuse scandals."
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>> He has to "match the psychological or behavioral profile (of); fit 
>> the description (of); be describable; look like."
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>> JL
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