Re: racist vs racialist?

En réponse à Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

>
> Unfortunately, discrimination has acquired negative connotations in
> (American?) English.  It now indicates acting preferentially towards
> one
> group of people (especially in terms of race, sex, religion, age,
> etc.)
> over another, and is rather similar to the word "prejudiced".  I think
> it's an unfortunate shift, but that's how it's gone.
>
I actually did mean it to refer to the negative meaning. What I said was that
discrimination was a better term for this kind of prejudicial preference
because it was not restricted to one kind of prejudice, but didn't include
simple taste preferences since it refers to a rather active way of using one's
prejudice. Sorry if it was not clear enough.

Christophe.

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