andrel <byt### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> On 2-5-2010 11:12, Warp wrote:
> > andrel <byt### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> >> On 2-5-2010 8:35, Warp wrote:
> >>> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> > 
> >>>> Based. On. Skin. Colour.
> >>>   Why are people so damn obsessed with skin color? Criminal profiling does
> >>> not have anything to do with racism. Skin color is just one feature which
> >>> can be used for profiling.
> > 
> >> Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pars_pro_toto
> >> You were the one who asked us to stop nitpicking words and finally try 
> >> to understand what you meant in stead. And yes, that made me ROFL.
> > 
> >   Then by all means explain what he really meant with "Based. On. Skin.
> > Colour." if not "picking possible suspects of illegal immigration based
> > on skin color is racism". Because that's what I understood.

> Have you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pars_pro_toto?

> Ok, "Skin" and "color" are generally used to point to any phenotype that 
> makes it more likely that someone is member of one group of people than 
> another. Could range from pigmentation to e.g. shape of nose. E.g. Obama 
> is "Black" even though his skin is just as brown as many a Mediterranean 
> guy that has an outdoor job. One of the reasons Obama is black is 
> because of his nose.
> Even you can see the difference between e.g. a typical Dutchman and a 
> typical Finnish guy, it is common use to refer to that difference as a 
> difference is skin or colour even though I might be more pale than you. 
> If such differences are used to treat people different that is generally 
> referred to as racism, even though we belong to the same race (if such a 
> thing exists).

> So having cleared that, will you now stop attacking people that use 
> these terms in this way and START LISTENING TO WHAT THEY MEAN.

  Maybe I'm being dense here, but I still don't get it.

  He said, effectively, that trying to stop illegal immigration by doing
racial profiling is wrong. Did I understand this incorrectly? If yes, then
exactly what did he say?

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                                                          - Warp

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