One popular view is that direct discrimination is wrong because the discriminator treats persons on the basis of traits that are immutable and not under the control of the individual possessing them.
The average person liked banal imagery, but art, "which can be a horrible discriminator," had made people ashamed of their tastes.
The military was the nation's most notorious discriminator in this area; a principled policy would certainly call for the exclusion of its recruiters.
It signalled to the country, the Supreme Court legitimizing the freedom to marry and working to fulfill the Constitution's command, but it also transformed the federal government from the No. 1 discriminator against gay people to now putting its moral and legal weight on the side of our families.
Rather, the biggest problem is that government itself is the No. 1 discriminator against gay Americans through its denial of equality under the law, including the freedom to marry that Mr. Paladino attacked.
How do you ensure that this is what is happening at Dyson? A. From the very beginning, we recruited university graduates — I'm a graduate discriminator — because they didn't know how to do things.
Citing the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the governor lamented that because of failing public schools, "the great equalizer that was supposed to be the public education system can now be the great discriminator".
"They won the case in that they won the right to be that nasty a discriminator, but I think they're losing the war out here.
Thus, there are serious problems with the popular view that direct discrimination is wrong due to the immutable nature of the traits on the basis of which the discriminator treats the persons whom he wrongs.
In some cases, a discriminator will adopt a policy that, on its face, makes no explicit reference to the group that he or she aims to disadvantage.
