Positive Discrimination: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
The term discrimination is often associated with negativity. Negative discrimination involves treating one group of people less favourably than another group. The main causes of negative discrimination are many and they include race, gender, colour, religion, and sexual orientation. The victims of discrimination are always the minority groups in society while the perpetrators are often the majority groups. However, discrimination can also be described in terms of its positivity. Discrimination is said to be positive if it is used to readdress the imbalance in society caused by negative discrimination. The importance of positive discrimination is recognised almost universally. Article 2.2 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, for example, urges signatories or member states to legislate for positive discrimination. The laws of most of the countries around the world including the United States, Canada, India, China, Israel, Malays...