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let's just grant, for the moment, the ridiculously absurd absolute truth of the prevailing stereotypes that: 100% of all illegal immigrants are hispanic 100% of all criminal are black and 100% of all terrorists are islamic.
does even that absolute justify, on a purely statistcal basis, profiling?
NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT.
why?
because the real relevant statistic for profiling is the reverse -- what percentage of hispanic people are here illegally, what percentage of black people are criminals, and what percentage of islamic people are terrorists. even if 100% of all terrorists are islamic, who can you justify profiling all muslim people if fewer than 1% of all muslims are terrorists??
all arguments about justice and freedom and the american way aside, on a purely statistical level, profiling is complete horseshit.
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