Today between 4:30 and 5 PM, I will be participating in a Huffington Post Live discussion on the use of political profiling by the IRS. You can watch it live here. I will also be drawing connections between this issue and the question of racial profiling, a parallel I discussed in this post. UPDATE: You […]
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Political Profiling and Racial Profiling
Slate columnist Farhad Manjoo has an interesting article arguing that conservatives are right to complain about the IRS’ use of political profiling, but argues that they should use the same reasoning to rethink their support for racial profiling in law enforcement. As he points out the IRS justification for political profiling is very similar to […]
Affirmative Action and Racial Profiling Revisited
By Ilya Somin on May 8, 2010 12:39 am in Affirmative Action, Conservatism, Immigration, Racial Profiling
Back in 2006, I pointed out that most liberals and conservatives take internally contradictory stances on affirmative action and racial profiling: I have long been fascinated by the fact that most conservatives support racial and ethnic profiling for national security and law enforcement purposes, yet are categorically opposed to the use of racial or ethnic […]