Consider Webster's definition of a profile, "a short biographical sketch indicating the most striking characteristics." You may remember such uses of the profile as in police investigations and the infamous milk carton kidnappers. A profile can be quite useful, in fact, by putting together a brief description to alert the public and enhance the chances of catching the bad guys. However, yesterday's ambulance chasers turned defenders of the warm fuzzies have decided to bank on the catch phrase, "racial profiling." Making millions, these patrons of justice have helped to defend such innocent characters as the "flight student who didn't care to learn how to land," the "passenger with odd shoes," and the "guys in the Osama bin-Laden look-alike contest."
Thankfully, these lawyers have made an honorable contribution not to our national security, but to social reformation and the progressive movement. Now, those airport security agents will think twice before they inconvenience the poor man in a hurry to renew his visa and focus in on the war veterans with pointed stars and the young mothers who try to bring a carry-on AND a diaper bag, or in my case someone who was already running late and whose purple suitcase was cause for suspicion.
Today these gracious lawyers have extended their influences to the fighting of injustices on college campuses everywhere, using administrators as their pawns to promote "campus diversity." Lost among convoluted thought and age-old leftist jargon, we find the supposed justification for the use of the socially acceptable forms of segregation, or in other words, profiling, to promote diversity. As a freshman, I experienced this diversity training firsthand at orientation. By convincing us that we were incapable of coping with the diversity of the UT campus on our own and threatening to bar our registration, we were coerced into attending the "Got Diversity" program. Through the profiling of racial, religious, and sexual preferences among students, we were taught tolerance but more accurately, segregated tolerance.
It was portrayed in such ways that if you did not have a deviant sexual preference, were not part of an underrepresented group, or were not an atheist, then you were nothing special. We were told to accept everything and be open-minded to all. Those who do not would be considered intolerant, racist, and closed-minded. This diversity session was the biggest closed-minded approach to a supposedly open-minded subject, leaving no room for the slightest hint of conservative values. It was liberal or nothing. I guess that is where I fell into the "racist" category.
But think of all the good these diversity advocates have done for our universities. If it were not for these freedom fighters, students would actually have to work their way to the presidential position in student organizations, rather than simply joining another branch of say the Business Students Association. Heck, we have the Asian BSA, the Hispanic BSA, the Black Graduate BA, the Muslim BSA, and the Women in Business Association just to name a few. Why not add the Purple-People-Eater Business Students Association to the list? I am not even going to go into the issue of having a Caucasian Business Students Association because that wouldn't be "PC." Now, with increased diversity and enough segregation we can all be president and "no child [will be] left behind."
Oh, and about being blamed for Saddam's evilness, I am an American, and we are to be blamed for everything, right? Where do they come up with this? In America, we believe in personal responsibility, and whether that means anything to Saddam Hussein, I guess the world may never know.