I posted about this show aired on ABC called What Would You Do? in the Cocktail lounge thread TV Series Recommendations. It basically sets up scenarios, using actors, that SHOULD call for stranger intervention to prevent a wrongdoing. For example, in the episode below (and the only one currently available on Hulu) a young gal is celebrating her 21st birthday, and taking full advantage of the liquor bar. A gentleman notices her celebration and cozies up next to her to make sure she avails the bar of all it's samplings. He then proceeds to assist the now overly inebriated young woman out of the establishment. She is barely able to walk, and voices her concern that she really doesn't know this guy. No worries, he assures her he'll take good care of her.
Do you, or other's as bystanders, come to her aid? That's what the show is about. The girl and guy are actors. Portraying their respective characters to see what the reaction of those around them would be.
That scenario, while interesting, is not why I am posting this. What I am posting this for are the 2nd and 4th segments. Those scenarios evaluate what people would do in scenarios involving black people.
In the first scenario, would people prevent a white person stealing a bike? Would they then stop a black person from stealing a bike? Lastly, would they stop a petite blind girl from stealing a bike? I'll give you one guess whom was prevented most often. I'll even give you one guess whom was suspected as "stealing" the bike more often.
In the second scenario, 3 black girls mosey into a high-end clothing store to do some shopping. The store attendant informs the 3 girls that perhaps that is not the best place for them to be shopping at. Following them around, vocally stating that they're being watched and that items typically tend to disappear off the shelves when people like "them" are in the store. Would you, or others as bystanders, confront the store attendant?
What's the point? It is easy to fall into the mindset of stereotyping a group of people, and then to further that into profiling. Is it wrong to suspect someone of acting suspiciously and they happen to be black, or middle east ethnicity? No. Is it wrong to suspect someone because they are of a certain ethnicity BEFORE they do something wrong? A resounding YES!
It is easy, particularly with the kind of attention the media gives, to stereotype Muslims, and funnel them all into the "extreme Muslim" label. There are no official numbers as to how many Muslims are living in the US, but it is estimated to be somewhere between 4-8 million. Now, how many individual Muslims have carried out, or attempted to carry out terroristic acts? Here's a list I found. It may or may not be complete and/or accurate, and the site IS anti-Islam. In addition to the itemized listing of the attacks, at bottom it states the total as being "3,314 killed by Muslims in America in 67 terror attacks", in a span over nearly 40 years, averaging to just under 83 people per year. Using those numbers I assume that there were AT LEAST 67 Muslim terrorists involved in the attacks. We all now that there were 19 men who commandeered the planes during 9/11, so that makes it at least 85 people. 85 or so people out of 4-8 million total Muslims? That's a pretty inconsequential percentage, wouldn't you say?
I'm not trying to diminish the havoc they created when those attacks were carried out. Nor am I trying to diminish the tragedy of whose innocent lives were lost in those tragedies. I do, however, ask people to keep things in perspective.
I submit this: All Terrorists are Muslims…Except the 94% that Aren’t
I also offer these statistics.
5.3 million women are abused each year. 1,232 women are killed each year by an intimate partner (far more than the 83 per year killed by Muslim terrorists). How do we profile for people whom are likely to kill their intimate partner?
Drunk Driving Facts & Stats Tips
•One person is killed every half-hour due to drunk driving
•Each year approximately 16,000 are killed in alcohol related crashes
•Alcohol is a factor in almost half of all traffic fatalities
•Every other minute a person is seriously injured in an alcohol related crash
"Each year approximately 16,000 are killed in alcohol related crashes". How do we profile for people who are going to get drunk, get behind the wheel, and kill someone?
Do you, or other's as bystanders, come to her aid? That's what the show is about. The girl and guy are actors. Portraying their respective characters to see what the reaction of those around them would be.
That scenario, while interesting, is not why I am posting this. What I am posting this for are the 2nd and 4th segments. Those scenarios evaluate what people would do in scenarios involving black people.
In the first scenario, would people prevent a white person stealing a bike? Would they then stop a black person from stealing a bike? Lastly, would they stop a petite blind girl from stealing a bike? I'll give you one guess whom was prevented most often. I'll even give you one guess whom was suspected as "stealing" the bike more often.
In the second scenario, 3 black girls mosey into a high-end clothing store to do some shopping. The store attendant informs the 3 girls that perhaps that is not the best place for them to be shopping at. Following them around, vocally stating that they're being watched and that items typically tend to disappear off the shelves when people like "them" are in the store. Would you, or others as bystanders, confront the store attendant?
What's the point? It is easy to fall into the mindset of stereotyping a group of people, and then to further that into profiling. Is it wrong to suspect someone of acting suspiciously and they happen to be black, or middle east ethnicity? No. Is it wrong to suspect someone because they are of a certain ethnicity BEFORE they do something wrong? A resounding YES!
It is easy, particularly with the kind of attention the media gives, to stereotype Muslims, and funnel them all into the "extreme Muslim" label. There are no official numbers as to how many Muslims are living in the US, but it is estimated to be somewhere between 4-8 million. Now, how many individual Muslims have carried out, or attempted to carry out terroristic acts? Here's a list I found. It may or may not be complete and/or accurate, and the site IS anti-Islam. In addition to the itemized listing of the attacks, at bottom it states the total as being "3,314 killed by Muslims in America in 67 terror attacks", in a span over nearly 40 years, averaging to just under 83 people per year. Using those numbers I assume that there were AT LEAST 67 Muslim terrorists involved in the attacks. We all now that there were 19 men who commandeered the planes during 9/11, so that makes it at least 85 people. 85 or so people out of 4-8 million total Muslims? That's a pretty inconsequential percentage, wouldn't you say?
I'm not trying to diminish the havoc they created when those attacks were carried out. Nor am I trying to diminish the tragedy of whose innocent lives were lost in those tragedies. I do, however, ask people to keep things in perspective.
I submit this: All Terrorists are Muslims…Except the 94% that Aren’t
Quote:
| CNN recently published an article entitled Study: Threat of Muslim-American terrorism in U.S. exaggerated; according to a study released by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “the terrorist threat posed by radicalized Muslim-Americans has been exaggerated.” Yet, Americans continue to live in mortal fear of radical Islam, a fear propagated and inflamed by right wing Islamophobes. If one follows the cable news networks, it seems as if all terrorists are Muslims. It has even become axiomatic in some circles to chant: “Not all Muslims are terrorists, but nearly all terrorists are Muslims.” Muslims and their “leftist dhimmi allies” respond feebly, mentioning Waco as the one counter example, unwittingly affirming the belief that “nearly all terrorists are Muslims.”  |
5.3 million women are abused each year. 1,232 women are killed each year by an intimate partner (far more than the 83 per year killed by Muslim terrorists). How do we profile for people whom are likely to kill their intimate partner?
Drunk Driving Facts & Stats Tips
•One person is killed every half-hour due to drunk driving
•Each year approximately 16,000 are killed in alcohol related crashes
•Alcohol is a factor in almost half of all traffic fatalities
•Every other minute a person is seriously injured in an alcohol related crash
"Each year approximately 16,000 are killed in alcohol related crashes". How do we profile for people who are going to get drunk, get behind the wheel, and kill someone?
sorry for the confusion
