Re: racist vs racialist?
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 0:25 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> That's why I prefer the term "discrimination" which is better to handle the
> problem, since it goes beyond race, but doesn't include taste choices.
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.
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