[user-the-name]

> the claim is that you can make a good guess about criminality based on ethnicity

Yes. That is the claim that is racist.

[NoImmatureAdHom]

It is empirically true. It is, of course, possible for things to be both true and racist, for some definition of racist.

[user-the-name]

The fact that you just stop the train of thought there is the racist part.

[NoImmatureAdHom]

What would be the non-racist thing to do?

[user-the-name]

Actually look for the real factors beyond "ethnicity".

[NoImmatureAdHom]

My honest read here, and I really wish to emphasize that this is honest feedback and not an attempt to put you down, is that you don't have a solid grasp of causation vs. correlation.

I appreciate you engaging. It's fun and important to talk about stuff like this.

[user-the-name]

My point is literally that you need to think harder about causation vs. correlation here.

Criminality might correlate with ethnicity. Assuming this means causality is the thing that is racist.