A conversation I would rather not be having

My Facebook page is a place of rigorous debate. I post something and a few white male Republicans tell me why I'm wrong about basically everything. I find this enjoyable and somewhat informative, but I should have skipped the unfortunate discussion about racial profiling that I find myself in. I'm in too deep now. It started with a clip from the Ed Schultz Show:



While I'm not sure I would phrase my objections the same way that Jack Rice does his, I still agree with him on this topic. Labeling a quarter of the world's population as suspicious hardly seems like a way to endear ourselves to pro-Western Muslims in the Middle East. Moreover, as a human being with a conscience, I have some real problems with the idea of sending all Muslims to the Muslims-only line at the airport so they can get a cavity search or whatever. It's wrong. And I'm bothered by people who insist that it isn't.

Ultimately I suspect that the reasoning behind it is convenience for everyone except those who had the gall to be Muslims. It's easy for a white Protestant man to insist that anyone in a turban be searched, but I doubt he would react favorably if the criteria were instead white men with subscriptions to The Economist.