Originally Posted by
GUWonder
2. With regards to doing guard duty, that's a product of fear, an environment where a siege mentality exists. And as noted earlier, "racist profiling gives comfort to the angry, the scared, the ineffective trapped by impoverished thinking". To claim that doing guard duty in the manner you noted is not the result of fear, at least in part, would strike me as dingenuous.
There is a difference between an irrational fear and the realization that that a real and present danger exists. To ignore that danger -- to walk down the middle of a busy highway with your eyes shut -- is sheer stupidity, not "impoverished thinking".
Originally Posted by
GUWonder
3. Please don't let me place real life in the way of your smoke and mirror claims about others.
No smoke. No mirrors. Just very obvious facts -- but to some people, what is obvious simply can not be true, especially if it runs in the face of their preconceived Political Correctness.