Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid
by Mz on Thursday September 22, 2016 @07:58PM
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It is perfectly logical to say that if there was an assault on a college campus and that the victim said the perp is an "Asian male", for the police to not prioritize the questioning of all non-Asians in the area.
This is not to disagree with you per se, because I do see your edited clarification at the bottom, but one of the problems here is assuming that the eye witness is correct in labeling the individual as "an Asian male" (per your example). Perhaps this is not true. Perhaps he is a short male with black hair, but not necessarily Asian. Perhaps he has some other ethnicity and will actually be overlooked by the police because of the assumption that the witness/victim has labeled them accurately when this may not be the case at all. (I will add: People are also sometimes misgendered.)
This is not to disagree with you per se, because I do see your edited clarification at the bottom, but one of the problems here is assuming that the eye witness is correct in labeling the individual as "an Asian male" (per your example). Perhaps this is not true. Perhaps he is a short male with black hair, but not necessarily Asian. Perhaps he has some other ethnicity and will actually be overlooked by the police because of the assumption that the witness/victim has labeled them accurately when this may not be the case at all. (I will add: People are also sometimes misgendered.)