Being Discriminatory about Discrimination
| Author | Peter Morriss |
| Published date | 01 February 1986 |
| Date | 01 February 1986 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9256.1986.tb00158.x |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Debt
in
an Absolutist Kleptocracy:
A
Zairean Case Study
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BE
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PETER MORRISS
This country's
first
Race Relations Act, passed In
1965,
prohibited
a
limited range of discriminatory behaviour; since then this range has been much
extended.
Discrimination (VOAD) has been formed to press for analogous legislation to
protect disabled people from discrimination. In working out exactly what the
legislation should include, a fresh look at the toncept of discrimination has
proved to be necessary (Fry, 1985a; Fry, 1985b). Such a rethink after twenty
years
is
very timely, and this paper
is
intended as a constructive contribution
to this process.
Recently a pressure group called Voluntary Organisation Against
But
I
also have a more critical point to make, and that
is
that the
emphasis on discrimination (exemplified in the name chosen for VOAD)
is
a
mistake.
An unwelcome (and not uncommon) linguistic shift has taken place over
the
last
few decades. Perhaps because almost everybody disapproved of the
discriminatory behaviour that was prohibited by the
1965
Race Relations Act,
the word 'discrimination' has slowly come to be used to refer to all behaviour
that the speaker judges to be similarly unacceptable,and 'discrimination' has
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