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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Racial profiling doesn't have to led to a stripping of dignity. When I was a teenager there was a department store down town who had obviously been hit by teenage shoplifters a few times. If I went in that store at lunch hour I would be followed by one of the staff. If I didn't appear to have a purpose for being there I would be asked if I needed any help. Did I like it? No. But what they did was right. I had the choice to not shop at that store if I didn't like it.
Profiling is only wrong if you pass sentence on the individual without cause. Asking the question isn't wrong.
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Asking the question is wrong. Assuming someone is guilty because of the colour of their skin is wrong. They should be treated fairly until they give reason for otherwise.
I would argue that the stores that profile youth are wrong as well.
And it doesn't matter if there's a choice to shop there. Having to make that choice because of discrimination is wrong. In Canada, we shouldn't have to make that choice.
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Is labeling to disregard someone because you don't like their ideology somehow less of a sin then labeling and disregarding someone because of their ethnic origin?
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Not sure if this was quoted from the article or your own thought, but I find it to be extremly flawed logic.
An ideology is something that one person can control and change. It also tells about a persons thoughts and attitudes. Ethnicity can not be changed and is not a fair way of judging a persons character either.
Descriminating someone for something they have absolutely no control of, and that doesn't even tell you anything about their personality is completly different and wrong.