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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Picture this:
A person has just robbed a convenience store at gunpoint and killed the cashier. A witness gives a description to the police. The perp is described as a white male, limiting the suspect pool to about 38% of the population. He is further described as over 70 years of age, white hair and a white beard. We're now down to 2-3% of the population. Was that description racist?, sexist?, age discriminatory? Now the police do not have to stop 20 year old clean shaven black men.
Now reverse the scenario, why would an equally accurate description be racist and sexist???? Imagine a person hunt where the only description was "American" or "a citizen" or "human".
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I tried, in an earlier post, to make this same point. When asked to describe an individual, for any reason, if we can't use descriptive terms (tall, short, thin, heavy, white, black), then there is no description. As for American, how do you know unless they show you their ID? Just because you can recognize that a difference in race, culture, gender, age exists doesn't automatically make one prejudiced. Those who think it does, are imHo, just might be prejudiced themselves.
Stay safe. Stay well. Peace!