Racial Profiling

I strongly believe in racial profiling. It is defined as the special treatment of of a race or culture based on stereotypes associated with it. Airport security is a fantastic example of where I think it should be considered standard protocol. A 65 year old Swiss grandmother is much less likely to hijack a plane than a young man of Muslim decent. Statistically speaking it just does not make sense to check each person with the same thoroughness. In an ideal world all people taking flights should be searched equally and as thoroughly as possible, but at this time many airports do not have the ability or resources to do this. If I were to be pulled out of the line for a more thorough examination I would be comforted to know that the airport security is doing its job. I have a mesomorphic build with shaved blond hair and blue eyes, which are traits commonly associated with that of the skin-head or neo-nazi movements. For all they know I could be on my way to ramming a plane into the worlds largest synagogue conveniently placed in New York city. It is ridiculous to ignore the previous facts on groups with a history of terrorist attacks and demand they all be treated equally in such a high risk setting. It is unfortunate that certain members of groups do this to other innocent of cultures and societies, but to ignore statistics and probabilities would be idiotic. Obviously racial profiling is not the answer to stopping terrorist attacks, but until we can place the same time of security as El-Al in every airport it may just have to do. That or America could change some of its foreign policies and behaviours to convince people that its not worth bombing anyway. But I'll save that for another post.