Virtue-Bellowing

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Two men shot and killed five Black people in an ambush shooting at a cookout in the poor part of town. Police had no leads.
TV reporter posts comment on television station’s Facebook page:
“You needn’t be a criminal profiler to draw a mental sketch of the killers who broke so many hearts two weeks ago Wednesday. … They are young black men, likely in their teens or in their early 20s. They have multiple siblings from multiple fathers and their mothers work multiple jobs. These boys have been in the system before. They’ve grown up there. They know the police. They’ve been arrested.”
She’s been fired because her comment was “inconsistent with the company’s ethics and journalistic standards.”
Question: if she HAD been an FBI Behavioral Analyst, would the FBI be required to fire her for giving the exact same profile of the suspects?
Does the Truth depend on the speaker’s Credentials?
Joe Doakes

What?  Is that a trick question?

And I’m gonna guess the FBI’s behavioral analysts are going to be getting a call from HR before too terribly long.

3 thoughts on “Virtue-Bellowing

  1. You are right, and someone needs to educate us about behavioral addictions, like compulsive scolding.

  2. Actually, I’m pretty sure that the FBI behavioral analysts wouldn’t use that description for a very simple reason; it describes a significant portion of young men in certain neighborhoods and is therefore so vague to be of no use. You may as well hear about a murderer in Minneapolis and write a criminal profile saying he’s probably a Vikings fan. Well, duh.

  3. You feeling a little persecuted, Emery? Gonna squirt us some tears, cupcake?

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