Comment on Anon gets lost
Kenny2999@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Racial profiling really is the lowest iq shit possible; equal to walking thru a nursery with a color chart and a labelmaker. What kind of an idiot do you have to be to ignore everything you yourself have ever experienced, received and taken for granted and presume the same facts of life don’t apply to everyone. No one is born bad. Even trump was a human first. Apologies for rant.
The unfortunate thing is, it sort of works. If you were able to stop and search 100 people as a cop, you would have more success stopping “stereotypical gangsters” than random people. And yes, many of those stereotypes are based on race and social status.
It creates many other issues, from discrimination to trust in institutions to pushing people into crime, but the sad thing is, the basic concept kind of works.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Racial profiling is bad. Profiling based on where you are is not necessarily bad. If I were to find myself in a bad part of town and a group of guys came up to me, it wouldn’t matter if they were black, Hispanic, white, or Asian; I’m going to be nervous. Meth and other hard drugs know no race.