Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> Because profiling based on race assumes guilt rather than innocence.
> 
>   Well, there's where we are using different meanings of the word
> "profiling". You are using a rather loaded meaning of the word.
> 
>> "The person is of hispanic descent, therefore they must (or even are 
>> highly likely) to be in the country illegally."
> 
>   That's not profiling. That's prejudice.

It's not possible to do profiling based on someone's appearance without 
being prejudice about it. Hence, it is both.

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