The not so Great Racism in Canada Thread

[someone123]

Originally Posted by lio45

Sure, and similarly, being young, or male, or muscular/fit, or dressed like a thug, or in a dark alley at night, are not strictly speaking violations of anything, yet they're still obvious "risk factors" when compared to being old, or female, or in a wheelchair, or in broad daylight, and the police can't be expected to always ignore all of those if we want them to do their work.

But at the same time, profiling can be deeply unfair and you can be harassed a lot for no reason if you just happen to fall in the wrong group. It might be fairer to ban reliance on some of these factors for profiling in the name of fairness even if they are real. There's an attempt to do this in a bunch of areas of Canadian law.