On tonight's NBC Nightly News, Chuck Todd delivered his interpretation of the data that showed a slight majority (51%) of Americans willing to allow racial profiling to catch terrorists, stating that "they're willing to give up some of their own personal rights and they're willing to see some racial profiling."
Well, Chuck, you presented the first fallacy in logic.
White people don't have to worry about racial profiling, when the thinly veiled message is that terrorists are from the Middle-East. Of course a majority of (white) Americans are willing to see some racial profiling, since they're not the target of racial profiling. So what personal rights would THEY (White Americans) be giving up?
Hey, we know there are Islamic terrorists (Abu Sayyaf) in the Philippines; do you suppose we should use racial profiling on all Filipinos as well?
And we are presented with the second fallacy of logic: Exactly HOW would racial profiling nab Jihad Jane? It just doesn't work; it's never going to work; only idiots think racial profiling can work to help catch terrorists.
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