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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumVan Jones turns Trump’s mass shooting policy on its head: ‘Start racially profiling white men’
CNN contributor Van Jones responded to Donald Trumps call to racially profile Muslims on Monday by pointing out that Americans were seven times more likely to be killed by a right-wing extremist.During a Sunday interview, the presumptive GOP nominee suggested that he would consider racial profiling as a tactic to prevent terrorism.
Well I think profiling is something that were going to have to start thinking about as a country, Trump told CBS News. And I hate the concept of profiling but we have to start using common sense and we have to use our heads.
On Monday, Jones pointed out that racially profiling Muslims would be an ineffective way to prevent mass shootings.
I just think its really interesting that were talking about racially profiling in the context of mass shootings, he noted. The vast majority of the people who are doing the mass shootings in America arent Muslims at all.
Young white men, CNN host Brooke Baldwin sighed.
Jones continued: You are seven times more likely to be killed by a right wing extremist a racist or an anti-government nutjob seven times more likely than a Muslim.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/van-jones-turns-trumps-mass-shooting-policy-on-its-head-start-racially-profiling-white-men/
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Van Jones turns Trump’s mass shooting policy on its head: ‘Start racially profiling white men’ (Original Post)
Cali_Democrat
Jun 2016
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NWCorona
(8,541 posts)1. That was the best thing ever! He's as sharp as a tack!
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)2. Yeap, the data bears this out... people who agree with stop and frisk should be agreeing with...
.. profiling white males for mass shootings
wordpix
(18,652 posts)3. I was thinking along those lines but
in terms of Isis-inspired extremists, "What is he going to do? Racially profile every non-white in the country?" Good luck with that.
Hekate
(91,042 posts)4. What I was trying to say last week, but it wasn't a popular stance here. I'm glad Van Jones said it-
It has much more impact coming from him.