Homeland Security training video portrays all "terrorists" as white, middle class males

Jihadwatch ^ | 7-22-11

[SJackson]

If you see something silly, say something: Homeland Security training video portrays all "terrorists" as white, middle class males

Don't they know stereotyping causes alienation, and alienation and poor self-esteem lead to radicalization? Now these poor men are going to have to deal with those additional radicalized Misunderstanders of Middle America and worry about backlash because of their portrayal in this video! And this is going to damage our standing with middle-class white guys abroad in nations that are our Friends and Allies, and create even more terrorists.

Of course, the intention seems obvious. But by bending over so far backward to show they aren't singling out any other group, they appear to have created a study in absurdity. As James Thurber once cautioned, "You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward."

"Who does Homeland Security thinks poses the greatest risk? Video portrays white middle-class as the most likely terrorists," from the Daily Mail, July 22:

A video released by the Department of Homeland Security urging people to report anything suspicious has caused outrage by characterising white middle class Americans as the most likely terrorists. The promotional video is part of Homeland Security's $10million 'See Something, Say Something' programme as they believe it will help curb random acts of terrorism by individuals.

But the controversial video has angered some Americans due to the fact all the actors who play the would-be terrorists in the video are white, and the people who report them are either black, Asian or Arab. What would happen - it is asked - if it was the other way about?

Lawsuits. Oodles and oodles of lawsuits.

The ten-minute clip shows a number of scenarios in which different behaviours which could be characterised as terrorism are played out.

These include - wearing a hooded top, driving vans, opposing surveillance footage, using a video camera, talking to police officers and recording something on your smartphone, among others.

The voice over urges viewers not to consider a person's race when making a decision on whether or not they are a terrorist. [...]

DHS has confirmed the video is theirs but adamantly deny there are any racial or politically correct overtones to it.

[blam]

This Marxist government is a joke.

They are striving for the destruction of the USA.

Fight them at every opportunity.

[Diogenesis]

[P.O.E.]

Alternate explanation: “White male” = Western Civilization = capitalism = scapegoat for the left

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Don't they know stereotyping causes alienation, and alienation and poor self-esteem lead to radicalization?”

This would be funnier if it wasn't such an accurate portrait of how the egghead left thinks.

[Westbrook]

> Homeland Security training video portrays all “terrorists”
> as white, middle class males

They forgot Christian.

White, middle-class, Christian males.

[Aevery_Freeman]

I understand the point. This administration has far more to fear from WHAM’s (see tagline) and pols like Sarah and Michele than from Muslim terrorists or Black radicals.

[Westbrook]

> This Marxist government is a joke.

And not a funny one either.

[Puddleglum]

watch out! they’ll smuggle stuff on planes in loaves of Wonderbread®!

[central_va]

Everyone knows those darn Amish are the biggest threat around.

[shadeaud]

Don’t forget little old ladies who have adult diapers on

[knarf]

show me the video

[StonyBurk]

OOH but —but that guy that was killed for bombing the Federal Building in Oklahoma City was a white guy—wasn’t he? Yeah and where was this never caught never was fin newton of the Right wing extremist mind that supposedly was seen -but like bigfoot never caught — where was the middle Eastern looking man? Why look at the poor guy now confined for life to a wheel chair.Major Hasan was trained by old white guys in the Army wasn’t he? See, See I know how to talk like a left wing-nut Of course Homeland security used middle class white guys as terrorists anything else would bring a lawsuit from Jesse Jack sonss Rianblow co-alition.
Or the Naalcp.OR Abraham Foxman and the Jewish ACLU.

[Mark was here]

I thought the terrorists were 90 year old women in diapers.

[combat_boots]

Well, good morning to you, too, DHS, DOJblogsquad.

Welcome to the Real World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcEoUlHtxz4

[GotMojo]

isn’t this racial profiling?

[Mark was here]

Yep, great comment.

[drpix]

"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date... nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest {parchment meant to be erased repeatedly}, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary."

- George Orwell, 1984

[Lazamataz]

They keep this sh*t up, and they’ll end up being right.

[rbg81]

Hmmm...I would have suspect elderly Amish women as the culprits. Handicapped ones too.