{"id":8636,"date":"2013-07-17T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T11:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/17\/an-addendum-on-so-called-racial-profiling\/"},"modified":"2013-07-17T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T11:44:19","slug":"an-addendum-on-so-called-racial-profiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/17\/an-addendum-on-so-called-racial-profiling\/","title":{"rendered":"An Addendum on So-Called ‘Racial’ Profiling"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my persistent themes is that conservatives must not talk like liberals, thereby acquiescing in the linguistic hijacking that liberals routinely practice, and putting themselves at a disadvantage in the process.  Conservatives  must insist on standard English and refuse to validate the Left's question-begging epithets.  Only the foolish conservative repeats such words and phrases as 'homophobe,' 'Islamophobe,' and 'social justice.'  <\/span><\/p>\n

For example, if you employ 'homophobe' and cognates, then you are acquiescing in the false notion that opposition to homosexual practices (which is consistent with respecting homosexual people) is grounded in an irrational fear, when the opposition is not based in fear, let alone in an irrational fear.  <\/span><\/p>\n

So I was slightly annoyed to see that Peter Wehner in a recent otherwise excellent Commentary piece <\/a>used 'racial profiling.'  I've heard other conservatives use it as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

As I argued yesterday<\/a>, there is no such thing as racial profiling.  Now I add the following.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Why say that Trayvon Martin was racially profiled by Zimmerman when you could just as well say that he was gender profiled or age profiled or behavior profiled?  Old black females walking down the street are not a problem.  But young black males cutting across yards peering into windows can be a big problem.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Zimmerman profiled Martin for sure, and he was justified in doing so.  We all profile all the time.  But he didn't racially<\/em> profile him any more than he age<\/em> or gender<\/em> or behaviorally<\/em> or sartorially<\/em> profiled him. (Martin wore a 'hoodie' and he had the hood pulled up thereby hiding part of his face.)<\/span><\/p>\n

As I said yesterday,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Race is an element in a profile; it cannot be a profile.  A profile cannot consist of just one characteristic.  I can profile you, but it makes no sense racially<\/em> to profile you.  Apparel is an element in a profile; it cannot be a profile.  I can profile you, but it makes no sense sartorially<\/em> to <\/span>profile you.<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no such thing as racial profiling.  The phrase is pure obfuscation manufactured by liberals to  forward their destructive agenda.  The leftist script requires that race be injected into everything.  Hence 'profiling' becomes 'racial profiling.'  If you are a conservative and you use the phrase, you are foolish, as foolish as if you were to use the phrase 'social justice.'  Social justice is not<\/em> justice.  But that's a separate post. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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One of my persistent themes is that conservatives must not talk like liberals, thereby acquiescing in the linguistic hijacking that liberals routinely practice, and putting themselves at a disadvantage in the process.  Conservatives  must insist on standard English and refuse to validate the Left's question-begging epithets.  Only the foolish conservative repeats such words and phrases as 'homophobe,' 'Islamophobe,' … Continue reading “An Addendum on So-Called ‘Racial’ Profiling”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}