Try again. This is common sense. Its human evolution in action. We all profile every day. Its called judgement. In my judgement am I likely to have problems with this person, let’s give them a wider berth? Often its a gestalt rather than any discrete attribute but survivors learn to rely on it.
Anytime someone wants you to suspend your common sense they call it racism, profiling or some liberal buzzword. Universities and Federal contractors are not allowed to ask about criminal history when hiring...oops fraudulent construction practices, confidence tricksters, sexual deviants feel free to apply. To the people we exposed to danger where they had a right to expect a safe environment sorry but we couldn’t allow profiling based on criminal records.
If someone looks anxious and fits the age, sex, and other patterns of terrorists(including religious extremism, national origin as part of the mix) it is criminally negligent not to pay stricter attention to them than to the 80 year old in the wheelchair or my 4 year old nephew.
There are behavioral clues and phrases that alert the trained security agent a la Israel but in no way do we allow any actual saftey concerns or reliable protocols to be acted on in Amerika, where civilians are routinely sacrificed on the alter of political expediency.
You’re making a rather large assumption here. That is, the US would use - and not abuse - the Israeli model.
The US government has shown time and time again that it’s NOT Israel. The DHS, with its incompetence and its abuses, is but a single example. So, depending on who was doing the assessments, we could ALL wind up on these lists.
It’s a dangerous precedent, and I stick with my former post.
And in today’s USA, it seems from a lot of observation in a lot of airports that a majority, or even a plurality of TSA agents checking people and their checked baggage at security and guarding airport doors are fully clad young Muslims - just the group that is most likely to need to BE profiled.
Common sense and published reports tell us there are among these terrorists waiting for their signal to act. These agents are already profiling, but perhaps, possibly, probably in the opposite way to what’s needed. How many believe that these burka clad, head covered female and male TSA agents have the mindset and goals one would hope for?