The term, as I've heard it applied at least the academic level, is reverse discrimination. Simply put, in favoring a minority simply because of the color of their skin or their ethnic background, you are reverse discriminating against the so-called non-minority. In this great country of our's, we once had something called "affirmative action" - which is just that... justified and lawful reverse discrimination.Quote:
Originally posted here by Negative
In a perfect world, there is no discrimination. In the real world, there IS discrimination, and there'll always be. And imo, there is no discrimination without positive discrimination: people who discriminate others based on their race, automatically positively discriminate people of their own race. People who discriminate women, positively discriminate men. The opposite also is true: people who positively discriminate others, are discriminating. Period.
That's why your topic-subject makes no sense, The3ntropy... Discrimination is as bad as positive discrimination (although you probably picked that subject to catch our attention ;) ).
If two applicants of identical qualifications apply for the same governmental job (eg. like an instructor's position at a state university) and one of them is white/caucasian and the other is a minority... without even giving a second look, the University had to hire the minority. Furthermore, there were/are "quotas" - since they "are an equal opportunity employer" (the government), they have to hire based on head-count percentages. I have actually witnessed cases in which a well-qualified , non-minority applicant with direct experience in-line with the position has "lost" a position to a less-qualified applicant, with no direct experience, simply because the second applicant was a minority and "affirmative action" like policies were in-place.
But, all-in-all, I think you're right... a world without some forms of discriminations or biasedness isn't possible. People are naturally judgemental for a wide variety of reasons (not just skin color) - I think those natural "judgements" taken to extremes are what we view as "discriminatory." *shrug*
Respectfully so, I highly doubt that's completely true (perhaps ironically, I also have a relative who is a long-term member of the senior educational staff at one of the Belgian universities). Sure, there's no need for it, but I doubt that it's completely non-existant (I'd also ask, however, what sort of ethnic diversity do you find in the Belgian educational system, as you put it? Just wondering if, perhaps, there's an interesting answer to go with it... *smile*).Quote:
To get to my point: there's no need of positive discrimination in the Belgian educational system, simply because their is no discrimination...
