Racial profiling is often described as something bad bcs it lumps people of a race into an uncritically applied category, often a negative one, without giving them a chance to demonstrate their individuality.
However, I am finding its use in a particular context both vital and useful.
I run the Facebook group Ifa Studies Group, on the Yoruba origin spiritual and divination system Ifa, and have observed that the most consistent spammers on the group, people bombing the group with erotic videos, are people with Asian names. These people have organized themselves into a network in which they are admitted into the group and invite others who then engage in posting spam while the person who did the inviting posts nothing or they both post spam.
So, I make sure that anybody with names like Lang Đấu, Ah Ny Kmeng J'lerm, Bùi Ðạt Sinh and Khánh Lê Bá are not allowed into the group. Some people with such names have recently resorted to blocking the group's moderator from being able to access their Facebook accounts, but this tactic is not effective in hiding an account from a group admin.
Why are these people making this effort their business?
thanks
toyin
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