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On Wed, 05 May 2010 13:16:36 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> Because profiling based on race assumes guilt rather than innocence.
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> Well, there's where we are using different meanings of the word
> "profiling". You are using a rather loaded meaning of the word.
See the post I just wrote with the OED definition of racial profiling.
That's the definition I'm using.
>> "The person is of hispanic descent, therefore they must (or even are
>> highly likely) to be in the country illegally."
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> That's not profiling. That's prejudice.
Yes, it is - but making the decision to make the stop based on ethnicity
and statistical probabilities *is* profiling.
Jim
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