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If you have a full physical description then isn’t race redundant?

• oh_sigh 8y ago
  I'm guessing they meant traits like hair color, eye color, height, distinguishing tattoos or marks, gender, but not skin color.
  • justin66 8y ago
    Precisely. Hence my use of the phrase "otherwise full physical descriptions." cleveland.com meant well and thought that this omission would help fix a problem they had, a high volume of blatantly racist postings in the largely unmoderated comments section of their paper in reaction to stories about crime. This solution did not work. It's as if racists aren't driven by sober and precise readings of the newspaper text, or something...
• deleted 8y ago
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