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Originally Posted by levite
To put it another way, if I am faced with hiring an assistant, and my choices have come down to two candidates, both of whom are women of roughly equal experience and ability, if one is Indian-American and one is Irish-American, and I hire the Irish-American one because she's white and I don't like immigrants, that is discrimination. On the other hand, if one is outgoing, pretty, and witty, but the other is morose, plain, and dull, and I choose the first one because she'd be more fun to work with, that's preference.
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So if its based on race is discrimination but if its based on attractiveness is preference?
Both are based on characteristics which are for most people unchangable.
One guy says, I don't like Indians, the other says I don't like ugly boring people. Both should be equally good at doing the job, and both of the people hiring discriminated.
The issue to me is not which is being discriminatory, they both are and for the 'victim' both will be out of a job. The issue is what are we still allowed to discriminate against.