Re: racist vs racialist?

En réponse à Florian Rivoal <florian@...>:

> >
> >Now *that*'s racism!!! ;)))
> ok, i agree, bad example. maybe i should have talked of tall vs short,
> or your story of breast ;)
>
LOL. I was being ironic. The point was to show that *anything* involving having
a preference for as group of people rather than another group can be called
discrimination by some. But as long as it stays in the realm of personal taste,
there's nothing wrong about that. But if somebody begins to use such preference
to actually judge people's worth, actively discriminate and/or call for
discrimination towards a certain group of people ("the blondes are stealing
your jobs!!!"), then it is something which needs fighting against. You cannot
prevent people having some personal taste and preferences towards some people
rather than others, for whatever reasons. What's wrong is to actually make
those preferences into a hierarchy of people and repress and/or call for
repression of the lower groups of that hierarchy.

Christophe.

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