Is discrimination evil, as everyone says? I answer - No. It depends on the kind of discrimination you're talking about. In fact, discrimination can be a good thing and even something worth promoting.
Racism is due, not to the presence of discrimination but to its absence. We condemn the racist because he fails to discriminate among different members of the same race. Instead, he lumps them all together indiscriminately on the basis of group membership, when they’re unique individuals with different characters.
We call this “discrimination” because he discriminates between members of his own race and those of another by judging the former as individuals but not the latter.
What we really object to in the racist is his lack of discrimination. What we find offensive is that he is not sufficiently discriminating – he does not discriminate enough among individual members of the same race. The cure for racist stereotyping is more discrimination, not less.
Originally posted by MacSwainAccording to the philosophy of the 'politically correct' merchants discrimination is OK as long as it is directed against a majority group which happens to be superior in some respects to other groups in sny given society.
Is discrimination evil, as everyone says? I answer - No. It depends on the kind of discrimination you're talking about. In fact, discrimination can be a good thing and even something worth promoting.
Racism is due, not to the presence of discrimination but to its absence. We condemn the racist because he [b]fails to discriminate among different memb ...[text shortened]... al members of the same race. The cure for racist stereotyping is more discrimination, not less.[/b]