1.
recognize a distinction; differentiate.

2.
make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, sex, or age.


According to the above, it can simply be a
distinction, or it can be an unjust distinction.

From what I'm reading in your responses, you're
going with the first one, as there's nothing
inherently "unjust" about a black man preferring
black women.

Thing is, we have to know a person's motives to
determine whether their discrimination is just
or unjust when it comes to dating preferences
concerning race, and it accomplishes next to
nothing to reveal it since ppl can make whatever
choice they want to make in that regard, and that's
usually what the conversation comes down to, even
when you have a black person who only dates white
folks because they hate themselves and their people...
it's not like we can call divine law on this "injustice" lol.

Since it's ok in dating but not in something like
housing, I think definition 1 should be the only
one (as it is on dictionary.com)... even when
you look at a term like "racial discrimination"
(cool in dating but not in housing). In short,
I'm just saying people react strongly to the word,
because they think you're accusing them of an
injustice, essentially.




>I think the term discriminate is so loaded that people dont'
>want to have anything to do with it but sometimes it's
>accurate and sometimes its acceptable to discriminate.
>