profiling (ˈprəʊˌfaɪlɪŋ)
— n
the practice of categorizing people and predicting their behaviour according to particular characteristics such as race or age: racial profiling

OK, let me get this straight: Frail old pasty white people and young children must submit to being touched on every part of their body by complete strangers because terrorists from Islamic nations would like to kill us. But 'we' must pretend to be blind to any physical clues and instead do random searches rather than targeted ones, because to do otherwise is to commit the awful act of, say it with me, profiling.

So explain to me how in the hell affirmative action ever got passed?