A reader who wishes to remain anonymous writes:
I was reading your recent post on profiling and it moved me to share with you a point I've shared with others many times. I worked a long time ago in insurance, and profiling in insurance is not only commonplace it is necessary and accepted by the public. Most adults know, for instance, that females receive better rates than males. It is no moral commentary on being a guy that males receive higher rates than women. It is simply a statistical fact that males cost more money to insure than females, and so insurance companies rate accordingly.
Further, insurance rates are based on credit score in part. It is not some moral judgment on companies' part. Insurance companies do not think that if you have bad credit you are inherently 'worse' than someone with good credit. It is simply a statistical fact that bad credit correlates with higher accident ratios. And insurance companies set their rates accordingly.
Of course no one complains about men receiving higher rates than women. But I have little doubt that if women were the ones to receive the higher rates, it would be a big deal. It is the same reason race cannot be included in insurance calculations. Surely it is no more inherently 'sexist' to rate men differently than would be 'racist' to rate different races differently. It is simply facing statistical facts.
The truth is that profiling is fine for people on the left; it just matters who is being profiled. If a car full of white men in white hoods with a rebel flag on their vehicle entered a middle class black neighborhood, and they were pulled over for fear of hurting someone, nobody would complain about this (and rightly so). But if a group of black kids blasting gangster rap enters a middle class white neighborhood is pulled over for the same fear, it is the end of the world. The hypocrisy is apparent to anyone with a brain.
That's right, the hypocrisy of liberals is evident to anyone who can think clearly and objectively. Imagine the quandry they would be in if we didn't let them get away with their double standards.
It also speaks volumes about what liberals and their political correctness have done to this country that my reader must fear for his livelihood simply because he has spoken the plain truth above. He states without malice what we all know to be true, and yet must request that I not reveal his name. The political environment is becoming McCarthyite. Time was, when a certain sort of right-wing crazy saw a commie under ever bed. Today's liberal crazies see a 'racist' under every bed. I'm still waiting for these bums to define 'racist.'