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Post by High Priestess on Nov 4, 2017 21:42:06 GMT
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Post by mig on Nov 5, 2017 18:19:58 GMT
Interesting article, thanks for the share Deborah. Not sure if this concept promotes racism, but it certainly doesn't promote inclusion and diversity. I am on another air forum and several comments have been made recently by hosts refusing to host certain guests based on racial profiling.
As they say in Yorkshire 'there's nowt as strange as folk'
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Post by High Priestess on Nov 6, 2017 2:36:37 GMT
Yes....I view those who use "racial profiling" as basically engaging in an "unskilled" (or you could call it "lowbrow") type of screening. They are trying to avoid problems, but they dont' really know how to assess people. Their skill level for assessing prospective renters/guests is low -- eg lowbrow. So they employ prejudices instead of knowledge and experience.
At some level, everyone does this in at least a few situations. For instance, a woman walking home late at night, might see a man approaching her. Maybe she's not going to wait to get more information about what kind of man this is -- what kind of facial expression, how does he walk, does he look nice or mean -- what kind of clothes -- does he seem a businessman or a college student or a homeless person -- no, she doesn't have time for that, and her safety is at stake. So she just employs a kind of "Profiling" we could call "gender profiling" and crosses the street to avoid him. We understand the reasoning for this, since the stakes are high, a woman alone on a street late at night. BUt apart from high stakes or risk or level of danger, it's still "profiling" of the kind we would not generally support elsewhere.
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