Discrimination is by definition selective, and the other way around too. When hiring someone you are trying to discriminate between good options and bad options. All hiring is discriminatory... and selective.
I'm noticing this pattern where by having two words for the same thing allows people who find logic inconvenient to label one form bad and one form neutral without their poor logic reeking havoc on all uses of the concept thus making the poor logic less costly and thus less noticeable.
Maybe we should start making selective as evil as discrimination since they are the same thing. Then people will realize how absurd it is to not be allowed to be selective about anything.
Language is a battlefield, and one our enemies know well. The term "diversity" a word with the rootword "divide" has somehow come to mean some form of unity in the minds of the collective conscience. "multiculturalism" is literally impossible without segregation, because unique cultures cannot grow with an identical people in an identical environment, and yet somehow the collective conscience has been taught it is some achievable "everything in one" ideal to strive towards.
"Maybe we should start making selective as evil as discrimination since they are the same thing."
This is singlehandly the smartest idea I've read in the last 90 days, on both poal and voat.
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