RACIAL PROFILING Guilty until proven innocent...

[Gooser]

RACIAL PROFILING Guilty until proven innocent.

That's what I just read on the bumper sticker on the back of a car parked on a street in Seattle.

What? Do they mean it?



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[AlexCuse]

Maybe they mean that everyone is guilty OF racial profiling until proven innocent?

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[sleipnir214]

You're not expecting bumper stickers, particularly bumper stickers in that part of the world, to make sense, are you?



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[PaulTEG]

2 possibilities, from my reading
1) It's to provoke thought upon the issue.
2) They mean it.

IMO, most likely the former, but it might misfire, despite the best of intentions.

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[Gooser]

Oh, that's how I read it...I didn't even see the other meaning at first. Hmm. Either way, why put that on your car? Strange to me.

 

[AnotherHiggins]

->"Do they mean it?
Do they mean what?

It is clearly (to me, anyway) a commentary on the ethics (or lack thereof) of racial profiling.

The "Guilty until proven innocent" is offered as a definition.

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[sleipnir214]

Either way, why put that on your car?

I figure it's like wearing a gang color, a fraternity jersey, a letterman jacket or painting your body your team's colors at a football game. It's an outward sign of group affiliation.

That way, it can transmit information (that you are claiming membership in a particular group) without having to frame parseable utterances.



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[Gooser]

...without having to frame parseable utterances.

-Huh?

I'm not sure I even understand what the thing means anymore... Are they for racial profiling, or against it?

Sure racial profiling can be a bad thing and lead to discrimination, but it can also be a good thing and lead to arrests.

After all, nobody gets on the case of the TV crime thriller show that when faced with a serial killer says,

We're looking for a white male in his mid-thirties, probably lives alone...blah-blah, yadda-yadda...

 

[guitarzan]

The statement is against racial profiling, the point being that if you are a victim of racial profiling, you are presumed guilty of something based on your race, not that you did anything wrong.

 

[sleipnir214]

-Huh?

They don't have to put words on the bumper sticker that make sense.

But don't waste a bunch of processor time on this one. If you interpret the sticker as a statement about the owner, rather than a statement about politics, the meaning of the sticker is no more important than the giant "L" on some kid's letterman jacket.



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[AnotherHiggins]

But don't waste a bunch of processor time on this one.

I agree with that. The sticker is obviously meant as a statement against racial profiling. Perhaps it should include an emoticon for the satire-illiterate.

If you don't understand why someone would be against racial profiling and wish to discuss that, I would suggest a new thread in STC.

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[fumei]

Hmmmmm...OK.

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[AnotherHiggins]

Gery, who and what are you hmmmmming?

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[AnotherHiggins]

Nevermind - I just saw that you started a new thread on the subject.

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