Posted on 08/14/2009 12:00:54 AM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
Terry Krepel over at ConWebWatch had a response yesterday to my post challenging his misinterpretation of David Horowitz’s and my arguments regarding racial profiling:
In an Aug. 6 NewsReal blog post, David Swindle takes us to task for our previous criticism of him and David Horowitz for their apparent support of racial profiling:
David Horowitz had a great one-line response to Terry’s inability to even bother engaging our arguments for discussion:
What is it you don’t understand about protecting black people from black predators?
To which we respond: What is it you don’t understand about not treating all black people like potential predators?
As we originally pointed out, Horowitz and Swindle seemed to justify the full search of a vehicle of a black person pulled over on the New Jersey Turnpike for a minor traffic offense — mentioned during an appearance by Horowitz on Glenn Beck’s Fox News show — by claiming that “a high percentage of drug dealers in the New York-New Jersey area were black.” That, on its face, implies support for racial profiling due to the apparent belief that because most drug dealers are black, all blacks should be therefore treated as potential drug dealers. No additional justification was provided.
In an encouraging turn in the debate Krepel then acknowledged my clarification of our position (race is one factor among many to be considered when constructing offender profiling) and wrote,
But there was no indication from the person mentioned during Horowitz’s “Glenn Beck” appearance who was stopped and searched that he fit the profile of a drug dealer beyond being a black male.
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Horowitz is overrated. No discussion of the disproportionate level of black crime?
Look and see who commits most crime, then act accordingly.
That headline doesn’t make any sense.
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