Kal Penn is in hot twit over some ignorant-sounding tweets yesterday in support of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's op-ed on the merits of NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy (
Great op/ed by @MikeBloomberg on the merits of "stop-question-frisk").
What struck us here at GQ, besides the actor's apparent ends-justify-the-deeply-flawed-means stance on the policy (which a federal judge ruled Monday was tantamount to "racial profiling") was that Penn seems to be flip-flopping his position on profiling. At least based on what he shared with GQ writer, Mickey Rapkin back in November 2011. Here's that exchange, where Penn talks about
being the victim of profiling himself at airport security checkpoints:
GQ: In HK2, Kumar gets stopped at airport security in a blatant bit of racial profiling. Has that happened to you?
Kal Penn: Oh, many, many times. It's happened to almost every brown dude I know.
GQ: That's infuriating.
Kal Penn: It goes against the notion that something like that makes us safer.
To be fair, this is highly sensitive stuff, and issues of race and crime in America don't easily lend themselves to the 140-character confines of Twitter. But the views Penn seems to expressing are hypocritical enough to have us wondering: What gives?
Something tells us that the
Harold and Kumar/We Are Men star will be forced revisit these thoughts/tweets and explain them further. Call us and let's talk it out.
Read more at ONTD:
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/80565442.html#ixzz2c5elF072
fukk this dude and anyone who loves him. He's a massive hypocrite and supports profiling for Blacks and Hispanics but not South Asians:
bout it
