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Originally Posted by Garick
Noting someone's race is not racism. As the_dude said, what people do with that info could be racist, but the info itself is not.
We are not going to disallow that info, anymore than we would disallow info about tattoos or age, or dress. We will (and already have) disallowed attacks based on that or other demographic info.
And please remember that this is not a politics and society forum. This discussion should only be about noting race as part of HHs, not about the wider 2+2 fora.
Generally, I would argue that if you have real reads on a player, this info is irrelevant. It's only tenuous relevance is if you are talking about an unknown and trying to establish probabilities based on hints like how they handle their chips, whether they know the dealer, and their demographic info.
The challenge is people way overweight it when they are new to a table because of their biases. As I said it's very unclear if anyone has actually properly studied differences in players over large sample sizes.
The absolute best read for establish probabilities prior is Ed Miller. Going in to a new table you should apply Bayesian Priors. This is by far and away the best predictor, not small sample sizes, or player's race. We're simply not smart enough to apply a Baysian prior and then make an adjustment on Race (even if that did matter, which is as I said is far from clear).