On 2-5-2010 21:42, Warp wrote:
> andrel <byt### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> On 2-5-2010 20:47, Warp wrote:
> 
>>>   Maybe I'm being dense here, but I still don't get it.
>>>
>>>   He said, effectively, that trying to stop illegal immigration by doing
>>> racial profiling is wrong. Did I understand this incorrectly? If yes, then
>>> exactly what did he say?
> 
>> No that is what he said. Racial profiling is not allowed for illegal 
>> immigration, because the profiling is not specific enough. Use of this 
>> blunt instrument would also likely destabilize the society. The use of 
>> it is therefore not only discouraged but in most places even forbidden.
> 
>   And I commented to that by expressing my opinion that people (not the
> writer, but people in general) are really too oversensitive on things like
> skin color. 

Not sure here if you mean skin color here literally or as a pars pro 
toto. Does not really matter much. People are sensitive to being stopped 
and questioned in an accusing tone by the police for no good reason. If 
it happens too often they get irritated. Fact of life I am afraid. You 
might think you can stand it but that merely proves that it has not 
happened to you yet. If it not only happens to you but also to your 
friends and relatives, but not to a another group, the irritation within 
your will combine into aggression towards the people that harass you.

> Then you accused me of deliberately misunderstanding what he
> wrote, or something.

Something. I didn't say you did it deliberately. It is just that you 
tend to take a word or expression that you would have used differently 
and derail the discussion by focussing on that rather than the message 
of the poster.
Your repeated attacks on people that use color and racism in a wider 
than the literal sense have annoyed me over the years, so that is where 
that remark came from.
Again, I don't know if you do it deliberately, I am pretty sure you 
don't. But it is annoying anyway.

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