I was referring to standard racist ideas such as “people of that race are more likely to rob you”. If you can observe whether someone has already robbed you, race is irrelevant for determining if they have robbed you, but that only applies to the past. You can’t observe whether someone is going to rob you in the future the same way you can observe whether someone is 6′8″.
(Of course you can have other objections. My recent comments about not hiring people based on IQ apply here too:if you refuse to hire people of some race because they have a higher chance of robbing you, the same people will find themselves constantly not hired, and this is bad. I’m not arguing for racism; I’m just pointing out that this objection doesn’t hold up.)
Do you have concrete examples? AFAICS we don’t have good ways of predicting future behaviour in general.
I was referring to standard racist ideas such as “people of that race are more likely to rob you”. If you can observe whether someone has already robbed you, race is irrelevant for determining if they have robbed you, but that only applies to the past. You can’t observe whether someone is going to rob you in the future the same way you can observe whether someone is 6′8″.
(Of course you can have other objections. My recent comments about not hiring people based on IQ apply here too:if you refuse to hire people of some race because they have a higher chance of robbing you, the same people will find themselves constantly not hired, and this is bad. I’m not arguing for racism; I’m just pointing out that this objection doesn’t hold up.)
An problem with racism is still confusion of correlation and causation....