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I would be 'racist' enough to profile at airports with a negligible downside...

Racism...or just common sense, not much of which is apparent in the handling of airport security.

Well I know that... I was trying to make that point. People around here have made purely racial reasoning for being against the port deal. The most watered down it gets is "why take a chance (trusting an arab)".

I was calling those people racists.

They got offended saying thats not racism its just reality... totally lacking any perspective. I just simplified it and said ANY judgment or generalization based on race/religion/ethnicity is racism. Including things I would be FOR (like profiling at airports) because if you reasonably, with perspective, think about it... it has a negligible downside (an extra wand wave, etc).

BUT I would not be FOR going so far as to ignore anything an arab ally is willing to do, simply because they are arab... where the downside is effecively making every arab on the planet your enemy (from the comfort of your keyboard).

Basically people got defensive, taking my the LACK of my willingness to "kill all them muslims", as some doe-eyed liberal thinking that you shouldn't even recognize that they are are arabs or muslims, or that if you think about it, you are a racist.

That is NOT what I'm saying... Only when you let it CONTROL your decisios (like many have in this case) do I make the racism charge (otherwise, like I said I'd be 'racist' enough to profile, trying to exlain the diff)