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(32,324 posts)Most normal human beings profile people all the time.
Ever go to a meet up-bar? Did you automatically go over and hang out with someone you found unattractive because attractiveness is only skin deep?
If you car breaks down in a very bad neighborhood, would you accept help from the older couple who looks like they are going to get their groceries, or do you roll down your windows and accept help from a group that looks like they are on their way to a gang banging?
I know "profiling" doesn't always work - I have numerous times gotten lost in a bad neighborhood and had someone who was rather scarey come up to my car window to help - And they were actually helpful and a really sweet person, despite being dressed like a biker, covered with tattoos, and looking rather nasty. But I will say my heart was racing just the same.
Most people in our society know poor looking poor people. Not someone who is slumming it, someone who is very poor.