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Yes, absolutely. Any time you distinguish treatment between different categories it is discrimination. That's what the word means.


That is one usage of the word. But we should not pretend that the word has only one use.

Chuck "discriminate" into Google and you'll get two definitions:

> 1. recognize a distinction; differentiate.

> 2. make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people.

I was referring to the latter use.


Yeah, agreed. People conflating these two meanings of the word just confuse the discussion.




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