Bigotry 101 or "Why yes, your question does make you look racist."

Two sides to every argument.

     So I am seeing a lot of people posting "shocking revelations" about the gunmen responsible for the tragedy in San Bernadino and one of them is that some neighbors were suspicious of the couple because they spotted "6 or 8 Middle Eastern people" hanging out around their apartment.  Some have asked if the whole shooting could have been prevented if these neighbors had reported this "Suspicious activity" to the police.  One bright soul even asked if they should have reported the people or if that would have been "Racial Profiling?"  Well the short answer and the only answer reall needed is...HELL YES IT IS RACIAL PROFILING!

     Now having done a tad bit of research, I have discovered absolutely zero evidence that these ME people engaged in anything more suspicious than coming to dinner or hanging out with friends.  No mysterious clandestine meetings in the middle of the night occurred.  No furtive deliveries of strange packages under the over of darkness.  Nothing out of the ordinary at all.  So the only reason any one would have of them being suspicious is that they were Muslims.

Getting dizzy yet?  Hang on it is gonna get worse.

     Now armchair quarterbacks on both sides LOVE to critique events after the fact.  It's like they think their sudden 20/20 vision should be applied retroactively to the past because of what they KNOW in the present.  So, people are saying that people should have reported "Suspicious behavior" to the cops because knowing now that the couple was indeed terrorists, any actions taken by them or their associates HAD to have been an obvious red flag before it was actually known.  Basically they are saying, "Well we know they are bad guys now, so it should have been obvious then."

     So lets imagine another scenario using this analogy.  Dylan Roof, the young White Terrorist who shot up a Black Church and killed many people because he believed that they were a threat to his way of life.  So suppose neighbors had spotted "8 or 10" Young White guys hanging out at Roof's house a day or so before he went berzerk and killed a bunch of people.  They are hanging out, drinking beer and talking about guns.  Should the neighbors have reported these suspicious activity to the cops.  After all, a hell of  a lot more shootings in the US are done by White Folks than Muslims, so shouldn't tabs be kept on all White Males just in case they turn out to be Terrorists like Roof or Deare?

Not really sure if it has anything to do with the blog, I just saw it and thought it was funny.

     Just like with NYCs now defunct "Stop and Frisk" program or its illegal, CIA sponsored targeting of Mosques, if the only reason you are targeting anyone is because they are members of a group that has been guilty of crimes, then yes you are indeed racial profiling and you are indeed a bigot.  No one thinks that all White people should be targeted because White People shot up Sandy Hook or killed a bunch of people in a theater.  If someone suggested it, the moral outrage would be deafening.  However, bigots seem to think it is okay to target ALL of a group for the actions of a few as long as it is a group that they don't like.  

     In the end, when you ask yourself "Is this racial profiling" you should also ask yourself "How would I feel if people did this to me?"  If the answer is "I'd be mad as hell" then yeah it is more than likely racial profiling.  Just sayin...

Why can't we all just get along?  Oh yeah because Bigots are stupid.

End of Rant