The word “discrimination” may very well be the most confusing word in the English language. In practice, everyone is in favor of it, everyone is against it, and virtually no one understands it. Its basic meaning is the act of making or recognizing differences. For example, discrimination between fact and theory is sometimes difficult: a person is told to be more discriminating in his choice of friends. Education is not possible if the student is incapable of an act of discrimination in which he distinguishes truth from falsehood, right from wrong, and fact from fiction. Then there is unjust discrimination that presupposes discrimination, but adds the vice of giving preferential treatment to one group while treating the other group unjustly. For example, allowing men to enroll in medical school while denying the same privilege to women.
It is not likely that any progress can be made concerning the issue of discrimination unless there is clarification of what the word means and how it is used. In other words, we must discriminate between the positive and the negative implications of the term “discrimination”.
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