<![CDATA[Prejudice, Fear and Profiling]]>There are many people who think those are bad things. Well, they aren’t. It should go without saying, but nothing does with so many PC folks out there: If white, Christian women in their seventies had made several violent terrorist attacks, then the wanding and pat-down my mother got on her way to visit us would make sense. Since nearly all terrorist attacks in the last several years have been made by Muslim men, it’s clearly provoking when they complain about this kind of treatment.
But U.S. Airways, and those passengers, did exactly the right thing. Their prejudice, fear and profiling were all quite rational responses, and should be applauded.
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