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Akin, Naber Moruk. Ben Toronto da yasiyorum. Bende Istanbuluyum. Findikzade, Rami taraf tan. Ama 4 yasindan bere burdayim. 25 sene oldu yani. Nesey mutlu oldum, ve cok dogru yazdin. Bende bi cevap verdim. Adam Sacma yazdi be. Kusurabakma ama turkcem cok iyi digil. Poker oyniyorsun demek. Bende. En cok Tourney. Nesey e-mailim var message yolla ne zama n istersen. HAde hoscakal.

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Akin, Naber Moruk. Ben Toronto da yasiyorum. Bende Istanbuluyum. Findikzade, Rami taraf tan. Ama 4 yasindan bere burdayim. 25 sene oldu yani. Nesey mutlu oldum, ve cok dogru yazdin. Bende bi cevap verdim. Adam Sacma yazdi be. Kusurabakma ama turkcem cok iyi digil. Poker oyniyorsun demek. Bende. En cok Tourney. Nesey e-mailim var message yolla ne zama n istersen. HAde hoscakal.
Oldu hoca. Simdi isteyim, aksama veya yarina sana pm atarim.
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For example, if I am an African-American male driving an expensive car, should the police be able to stop me without any cause and search my car without probably cause because I fit the profile of someone who a) may have stolen that expensive vehicle or B) may be transporting illicit drugs?
No. These are stereotypes driven by the media and aren't true statistically.
Having lived in Turkey for the first 18 years of my live, I can say from experience that terrorist attacks are not prevented by curbing the individual liberties of a particular group. Despite the Turkish governments efforts to curb such rights (which included racial profiling in airports as well as virtually any other facet of society), Turkey lost over 30,000 of its citizens to terrorist attcks in the 1980s. Terrorism began to level off and ultimately fade in Turkey once the government changed some of its domestic as well as foreign policies dealing with ethnic groups whose extremists factions perpetrated the terrorism.
Apples and oranges. Kurds were/are pissed b/c they want to be independent and were oppressed by Jim Crow-like laws for decades. The matter wasn't religious, was it?But, I think it was absolutely in Turkey's best interest to profile Kurds because, yes, they were more likely to blow something up than an average Turk. I think the key here is "nice" vs. "best." Is it "nice" to profile? Probably not. Offensive? Maybe. More efficient and effective then searching everybody? YEP.
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LOL. Your explanation is filled with so much well-supported undeniable fact, I can't even argue with you. good job.
do i have to spoon feed you everything???all the reasons Bush was giving us to go to war were all proven false.no WMD's, no link between alquida and sadaam, nothing!"we were lied to" get it?
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FYI...george bush is a bigger terrorist than bin laden and sadam hussein combined, last time i checked, he wasnt sporting no beard.
Wow..I pretty much view you as a terrorist now. WTG :club:
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Wow..I pretty much view you as a terrorist now. WTG :club:
maybe that comment was harsh, i was irritated and i gave an emotional response.what i meant to say is bush is just as bad as bin laden and sadaam.i apoligize to anyone that was offended.
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No. These are stereotypes driven by the media and aren't true statistically. Apples and oranges. Kurds were/are pissed b/c they want to be independent and were oppressed by Jim Crow-like laws for decades. The matter wasn't religious, was it?But, I think it was absolutely in Turkey's best interest to profile Kurds because, yes, they were more likely to blow something up than an average Turk. I think the key here is "nice" vs. "best." Is it "nice" to profile? Probably not. Offensive? Maybe. More efficient and effective then searching everybody? YEP.
Not apples and oranges. I don't see how one type of terrorism is ethnicity driven vs another one being religion driven (not to say that Al-Queda operates solely on teh basis of religion) makes any difference to this discussion. Both groups saw the respective governments as their oppressors believing that blowing up innocent people was somehow going to force that oppressor into some type of concession. And I used to think profiling Kurds somewhow made things safer, but given the fact that the 80s was probably the most police-like era in recent Turkish history AS WELL AS the era in which the country lost most victims to terrorism, I can't see a legitimate connection between racial profiling and preventing terrorism. Maybe the US is a different case, but no one has yet presented a cogent argument on this forum as to why it would be.
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do i have to spoon feed you everything???all the reasons Bush was giving us to go to war were all proven false.no WMD's, no link between alquida and 911, nothing!"we were lied to" get it?
Except where Osama was seen in a video praising the work of his team and saying the results were better than expected. At least he's not tied to "alquida" ...
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Except where Osama was seen in a video praising the work of his team and saying the results were better than expected. At least he's not tied to "alquida" ...
what i meant to say is no link between sadaam and alquida...edited my original post.
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what i meant to say is no link between sadaam and alquida...edited my original post.
Objectively, when you spell the names of both parties wrong, you *really* cut the legs out from under any argument you might have.
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Objectively, when you spell the names of both parties wrong, you *really* cut the legs out from under any argument you might have.
so what, i misspelled some words.what does spelling have to do whit my argument?youre reaching.
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And it AIN'T about oil....
I agree, if it was about the oil, we could send a bunch of bruthas over there and steal it all.
No. These are stereotypes driven by the media and aren't true statistically.
I'm not so sure. I know everytime I see a black guy in a nice car with some spinners, I just assume he's a drug dealer packing heat. I'm pretty sure I'm right 80% of the time. Don't be so naive. If a young black guy has money, its usually b/c he got it illegally. Or he plays sports and beats his wife.Wake up white people
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I agree, if it was about the oil, we could send a bunch of bruthas over there and steal it all.I'm not so sure. I know everytime I see a black guy in a nice car with some spinners, I just assume he's a drug dealer packing heat. I'm pretty sure I'm right 80% of the time. Don't be so naive. If a young black guy has money, its usually b/c he got it illegally. Or he plays sports and beats his wife.Wake up white people
Or gives women STD and tells them his name is Ron Mexico.
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Ultimately, eliminating all these races is the only way to completely solve this problem. Hitler had the right idea. We were all just too shortsighted to see it. Don't you feel stupid now?
I wasn't even gonna bring the jews into this one, but now that you brought it up. There has to be a reason people try to exterminate them every 1000 years.
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I agree, if it was about the oil, we could send a bunch of bruthas over there and steal it all.I'm not so sure. I know everytime I see a black guy in a nice car with some spinners, I just assume he's a drug dealer packing heat. I'm pretty sure I'm right 80% of the time. Don't be so naive. If a young black guy has money, its usually b/c he got it illegally. Or he plays sports and beats his wife.Wake up white people
Ultimately, eliminating all these races is the only way to completely solve this problem. Hitler had the right idea. We were all just too shortsighted to see it. Don't you feel stupid now?
I wasn't even gonna bring the jews into this one, but now that you brought it up. There has to be a reason people try to exterminate them every 1000 years.
AND WE HAVE LIFT OFF!!!enough of this.where's the beer??? :club:
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I find it incredibly amusing that the comments of a rich, white, (relatively)uneducated Canadian poker player spawns debate about issues like this. I mean...could there be anyone that's much less qualified to make statement like "the U.S. should be practicing racial profiling"? Negreanu seems like a good guy (and it's his blog so he can do whatever the fuck he wants), but I miss the good old days where he would stick to writing about what he knows and what the people that make this site popular want to read.By "people that make this site popular", I mean me. Obviously he brings in the new users, but I keep them here. I bring the sexy.

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When you make constant misspellings, especially things like proper nouns or the names of people you're trying to portray in a certain light, it makes you appear uneducated, especially on the topic. A reader's thought process will often go, "If he can't even spell Al'Qaeda, how much can he have read about the topic; the word would be burned into his memory."Just saying..

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oh boy, here come the sickies. :club:

When you make constant misspellings, especially things like proper nouns or the names of people you're trying to portray in a certain light, it makes you appear uneducated, especially on the topic. A reader's thought process will often go, "If he can't even spell Al'Qaeda, how much can he have read about the topic, the word would be burned into his memory."Just saying..
i wasnt paying attention, but i will in the future...i appreciate your advice.thx
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From Walter Williams, editorialist and economics professor.Stupid Airport SecurityA MINORITY VIEWBY WALTER E. WILLIAMSRELEASE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2005, AND THEREAFTER STUPID AIRPORT SECURITY( He is African American)For most of my professional life, I've traveled frequently -- sometimes boarding a commercial flight two, three or four times a month for lucrative speaking engagements. Over the past three years, the frequency has fallen to an average of once or twice a year. The reason is simple. I don't want to be arrested or detained for questioning some of the senseless airport security procedures. Don't get me wrong. I'm for security but against stupidity. Let's look at some of it starting off with a hypothetical question.You're a detective. A woman reports a rape. How would you go about finding the perpetrator? Would you confine your search to males or would you include females as well?You say, "Williams, that would be stupid to include females!" But not if Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta were your supervisor. You might be ordered to investigate females and males as possible suspects to avoid committing the politically incorrect sin of sex profiling.With regard to airport security, Mineta said, "While the security procedures are not based on the race, ethnicity, religion or gender of passengers, we also want to assure that in practice, the system does not disproportionately select members of any particular minority group." That means Americans who fit no terrorist profile -- mothers with children, blind and disabled people, elderly couples -- are frisked, groped and hassled. What's even more stupid is that pilots and flight attendants face similar screening. Here's my question to you: If a pilot is intent on crashing a plane into a building, does he need to carry anything on board to do it?On several occasions, having gone through screening without setting off any alarms, I've been pulled aside for additional screening. Imagine that you're there with a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) supervisor and I'm being subjected to additional screening. You offer him a bet whereby if Williams is discovered to be in possession of something that endangers security -- a knife, gun or bomb -- you'll pay him $5,000, and if I'm not, he'll pay you $100. Do you think he'll take your offer? I'm betting he wouldn't.What about the TSA confiscation of "dangerous" personal items such as tweezers, hat pins, sewing scissors, knitting needles, etc.? I hope I'm not giving the TSA ideas, but I've watched a number of television shows featuring supermax prisons like California's Pelican Bay. Among the items prisoners fashion into lethal weapons are ballpoint pens, belts, eyeglass temples, glass containers and toothbrushes, all of which the TSA permits on airplanes. So what's the TSA's reasoning for allowing ballpoint pens on planes but not tweezers?Most hijackings and recent terrorist acts have been committed by young Muslim extremists. That's not to say that all or nearly all Muslims pose a threat to security. But if one is looking for potential terrorists, the larger proportion of resources should be spent screening Muslim passengers. Screening the blind and disabled, mothers and children, and senior citizens is not going to have much of a payoff unless the goal is not to have tweezers or a G.I. Joe doll holding a rifle on the plane.If I were a terrorist, I'd appreciate the fact that the TSA treats every passenger as having an equal likelihood of being a security threat. Fewer resources would be available to screen me. When law-abiding people are the subject of profiling, it's unfair, and they are insulted -- and rightfully so. The true source of the injustice they face are those responsible for making "Muslim" near synonymous with "terrorism."Even if I don't fly commercial anymore, I care about the TSA's waste of resources. There are potential terrorist targets in many areas such as ports, railroads and infrastructure, but roughly 90 percent of TSA's funding is spent on airports operating under the assumption that every passenger and every bag have an equal likelihood of being a security threat. That's stupid.

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I wasn't even gonna bring the jews into this one, but now that you brought it up. There has to be a reason people try to exterminate them every 1000 years.
There is a reason. It's because we're better than you, but there are less of us since we're smart and don't procreate like animals.
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