Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Well, when you say "we should test people who look like illegal immigrants 
> look", then that's pretty much the textbook definition of racist.

  Except that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that concentrating resources
on statistically more probable people is going to give a better success rate
than spreading the resources evenly on everybody. If the distinguishing
feature happens to be ethnicity, that doesn't change anything. You can call
it "racism" if you want. I am not prejudiced against any group of people
based on their ethnicity, nor am I claiming that some ethnicities are more
likely to be criminals than others, so I don't really appreciate the
insinuation.

> You're 
> saying "we should act as if those with the same genetics as criminals are 
> more likely to also be criminals" is racist.  I don't know any other word 
> for it, especially when you're claiming that genetics is a factor, but not 
> religion or shopping habits or anything like that.

  Now you are outright insulting me. Nowhere have I said that.

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