Is positive discrimination essential in order to eradicate racism against Asians/Black people?
It is generally illegal in Western democracies, the discrimination on grounds such as race or religion, while discriminating between people on the grounds of merit is usually lawful. Thus commonly referred to as differentiating, when unlawful discrimination takes place, it is often described as discrimination against a person or a certain group of people. Positive discrimination seem as a self-contradiction and an oxymoron because that is what affirmation action which is called in the United Kingdom. Does the term “positive discrimination” seem an oxymoron, a self- contradiction? If so, it is particularly pertinent because that is what “affirmative action” is called in the United Kingdom. Is this just a harmless idiomatic difference between British and American English like lorries becoming trucks? Not at all. The U.K. usage quickly gets us to the heart of present-day criticisms of affirmative action — namely that, even given the best of intentions, discrimination based on ascribed ra
