Good To Know: Sarah Palin Believes In Racial Profiling, Glenn Beck

Sarah Palin knows. Here’s an assessment that she shared with the Weekly Standard yesterday:

She commented on the trail of evidence linking the alleged Ft. Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Hasan, to militant Islam. “There were such clear, obvious, massive warning signs that were missed,” she said. “This terrorist, even having business cards” that identified him as an “SoA” or soldier of Allah. Palin blamed a culture of political correctness and other decisions that “prevented — I’m going to say it — profiling” of someone with Hasan’s extremist ideology. “I say, profile away,” Palin said. Such political correctness, she continued, “could be our downfall.”

Interesting. Because obviously, racial profiling worked so well before. In fact, due to the government’s racist actions in World War Two, many Japanese Americans lost their homes, their lives, everything they had – and for what? Mike Shinoda (of Linkin Park fame) cut a track for his solo project that explored his family’s history in the internment camps. A student on YouTube spliced the song with images and facts from the era:

The U.S. government ultimately paid close to $1.6 billion dollars in reparations for their insistence on profiling.

Now Palin and company want to repeat history, as those who don’t learn from it so often do.

Palin-Beck 2012 [Politico]

Glenn Beck: Asshole [Shakesville]

Rage Grows in America: Anti‑Government Conspiracies [ADL]

Republicans criticize Obama’s Call To Delay Hill Inquiries On Fort Hood [Washington Post]

Palin On Nidal Hasan: “Profile Away” [Weekly Standard]

Exploring Japanese American Internment [Asian American Media]

Official Site [Densho]

Related: Casting Out: Exploring the Racialization of Muslims [Racialicious]

The Greatest Cliché: The Unexamined Propaganda of “Political Correctness” [Zuky]

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