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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Sun Jun 19, 2016, 05:05 PM Jun 2016

Get Ready For Racial Profiling Under President Donald Trump

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racial-profiling_us_5766b8efe4b0853f8bf12da5|

Donald Trump said Sunday that although he hates the idea of racial profiling, it might just be time to start implementing it anyway.

“I think profiling is something that we’re going to have to start thinking about as a country,” Trump said in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “And other countries do it; you look at Israel and you look at others and they do it, and they do it successfully.”

“You know, I hate the concept of profiling,” he added. “But we have to start using common sense and we have to use, you know, we have to use our heads. We really have to look at profiling. We have to look at it seriously. And other countries do it, and it’s not the worst thing to do. I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to use common sense. We’re not using common sense.”


What I want to know is how do you tell a Muslim from a Christian. Do we make the Muslims wear a star and crescent patch on their clothes?
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Get Ready For Racial Profiling Under President Donald Trump (Original Post) Stonepounder Jun 2016 OP
Muslim would be religious profiling, not race. Otherwise, good article. Agnosticsherbet Jun 2016 #1
Don't be too sure that The Donald realizes that. n/t Stonepounder Jun 2016 #2
It would in practice be racial profiling Spacedog1973 Jun 2016 #5
There will never be a president Trump, so that's nothing to worry about. arcane1 Jun 2016 #3
He will never be President n/t malaise Jun 2016 #4
We all assume that Trump won't get elected. Stonepounder Jun 2016 #6

Spacedog1973

(221 posts)
5. It would in practice be racial profiling
Sun Jun 19, 2016, 05:38 PM
Jun 2016

Suspicion of being Muslim until proved otherwise based upon physical appearance.

And the worst thing is; Donald Trump knows that. And doesn't care. In fact, by religious profiling, he understands it as racial profiling, which is a give away.

Every 'middle eastern-featured man, woman and child' will be profiled under the guise of religious profiling under Trump's America.

And Donald is cool with that.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
3. There will never be a president Trump, so that's nothing to worry about.
Sun Jun 19, 2016, 05:33 PM
Jun 2016

He doesn't want the job and his party doesn't want to give it to him.

Might as well talk about policy under president Easter Bunny. Both presidencies are equally likely to happen.

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
6. We all assume that Trump won't get elected.
Sun Jun 19, 2016, 05:58 PM
Jun 2016

But, if you couple voter suppression with the divisiveness within the Democratic Party between the Clintonites and the Bernie-bots (full disclosure: I supported Bernie, but will vote Blue!), and then toss in FOX News doing everything in their power to crucify Hillary, I will be nervous until the Electoral Congress votes!

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