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“”For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

—Ron Kind[1]

Discrimination is the treatment of similarly situated individuals differently, for either an arbitrary or non-arbitrary reason.

## Contents

* 1 Good discrimination
* 2 Bad discrimination
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Good discrimination[edit]

Many people believe discrimination is good, when done for relevant and non-arbitrary reasons. For example, employing someone with better hand-eye co-ordination to operate machinery or accepting more mathematically able students into maths-based university courses. The mentality of "the best ~~man~~ ~~man or woman~~ ~~person~~ ~~thing self defining as a human~~ sentient-being-of-any-and/or-every-persuasion for the job" is considered acceptable because the criteria for discrimination is relevant and justifiable.

## Bad discrimination[edit]

However, discrimination has become a loaded term, as its primary use is as a negative and generally refers to unjustified discrimination.

Race, gender, religious/philosophical views, and sexual orientation are often discriminated against. People are often rejected from job placements or other perks due to what Sir Joseph Porter KCB[2] would refer to as "an accident of birth". In the case of affirmative action or "positive discrimination", these traits are discriminated for in the hope of balancing out old, often ancient prejudices and previous discrimination.

## See also[edit]

* Bigotry
* Homophobia
* Legal employment discrimination
* Linguistic discrimination
* I'm not prejudiced, but...
* Racism
* Sexism
* Stereotype
* Tolerance
* Transphobia

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 26 (Tuesday, March 8, 2005)
2. ↑ Look it up you uncultured philistines!