Is it discriminatory if you notice patterns?

Discrimination is not the same thing as racism, and the word discrimination in general means learning to make useful classifications, and it is almost impossible to operate without doing some kind of that. But there’s a trap if/when you trust those too much and don’t give people a chance to be different.

If you decide that the criteria for deciding how someone is can be reduced to something to do with race, then that is racist.

Knowing that there are quite a few bullies in a neighborhood and how they tend to look and act doesn’t make you racist. Assuming everyone you meet of the same race as them is racist.

Thank you, Zaku. I somewhat had the idea in my head, but I could not come up with the words.

For the sake of correctness – I left out “is a bully” before the last two words:

“Assuming everyone you meet of the same race as them is a bully is racist.”

@RedDeerGuy1 , Were the people from this group the only ones who bullied you? What about the guy who you said you kneecapped?

Poverty affects people in different ways. It is not proper to identify poor people of a certain race with the rest of them. Many of these people have themselves been unfairly discriminated against by the majority and some of them may have been venting their anger at you.

I think it is human nature to attach certain beliefs to a group of people if you have had the same sort of interaction with them repeatedly. If you are mugged 10 times and it is always by a person of the same race, you start to assign a certain caution when dealing with that race. If you have had zero positive interactions with persons of that race, that reinforces those cautions. I don’t call this racism or discriminatory. I call this conditioning. To me, racism is holding negative attitudes about a race without any real reason. The KKK hates blacks, yet most of them don’t know any and have had zero interaction with them, outside of incidental interactions (having a black wait on them in a store for instance). That is racist.

Yes. You should treat and consider everybody as a unique individual, and not lump them all together in a group.

I have been on many international flights and have noticed a clear pattern as I deplane after many hours. Flights from Japan have very little trash on the floor. Flights from India are trashed upon landing! Filth is everywhere, every time. Flights originating in the US are generally clean with only a little trash.
Make of it what you will. It’s data.