– Discrimination generally means preference on the grounds of sex, race, skin color, age or religious outlook. – In everyday speech, it has come to mean morally unjustified treatment of people on arbitrary or irrelevant grounds. – Therefore to call something ‘Discrimination” is to condemn it. – But when the question of justification arises, we will call it ‘Preferential Treatment’.
– Discrimination generally means preference on the grounds of sex, race, skin color, age or religious outlook.
– In everyday speech, it has come to mean morally unjustified treatment of people on arbitrary or irrelevant grounds.
– Therefore to call something ‘Discrimination” is to condemn it.
– But when the question of justification arises, we will call it ‘Preferential Treatment’.