Note to the "ladder of force left"

[Mina Kumar]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Note to the "ladder of force left"
>Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:16:58 -0400
>
>>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>>
>>>I've been mugged by a black man, but I'm against the "war on
>>>crimes," racial profiling, etc.
>
>That's not a very good analogy. Street crimes have social causes, but
>they're individual acts. There's no organized group of muggers
>issuing threats of mass murder.

Sorry, I don't follow.  Terrorist crimes don't have social causes?  Only 
crimes organized by n < 2 people have social causes?  Those threatening mass 
murder don't have social causes?  Would you say Palestinian terrorist acts 
did not have social causes?

Do crimes have to have social causes to make racial (or other) profiling 
bad?

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