Why is racism bad?

Interesting. Is it bad for something to not be logical? When I lust after a beautiful woman, am I discriminating against somebody with physical traits that they have no control over?

The definition of beauty is arbitrary, not so the color of skin. Do you think beautiful women deserve more rights and better treatment than not-beautiful women? Your personal feelings about attractiveness have nothing to do with my comment.
 
The definition of beauty is arbitrary, not so the color of skin. Do you think beautiful women deserve more rights and better treatment than not-beautiful women? Your personal feelings about attractiveness have nothing to do with my comment.

Are you saying that beautiful women do in fact have control of their physical traits?
 
Are you saying that beautiful women do in fact have control of their physical traits?

Why would I say that? I'm asking if you think beautiful women deserve more rights and better treatment than the not-beautiful. Because that's what it boils down to when it comes to racism, that blacks don't deserve the same as whites strictly because of skin color.
 
Why would I say that? I'm asking if you think beautiful women deserve more rights and better treatment than the not-beautiful. Because that's what it boils down to when it comes to racism, that blacks don't deserve the same as whites strictly because of skin color.

Are you abandoning this?:

It's bad because discriminating against somebody with physical traits they have no control over is illogical.
 
Are you abandoning this?:

Of course not. I'm saying your analogy is faulty. You've chosen to use the 2nd definition when the topic pertains to the first definition. It's just deflection.

1. the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
"victims of racial discrimination"

synonyms:
prejudice, bias, bigotry, intolerance, narrow-mindedness, unfairness, inequity, favoritism, one-sidedness, partisanship; Moresexism, chauvinism, misogyny, racism, racialism, anti-Semitism, heterosexism, ageism, classism, casteism;
historicalapartheid
"racial discrimination"

2. recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another.
"discrimination between right and wrong"

the ability to discern what is of high quality; good judgment or taste.
"those who could afford to buy showed little taste or discrimination"

synonyms:
discernment, judgment, perception, perceptiveness, perspicacity, acumen, astuteness, shrewdness, judiciousness, insight; Moreselectivity, (good) taste, fastidiousness, refinement, sensitivity, cultivation, culture
"a bland man with no discrimination"

Psychology
the ability to distinguish between different stimuli.
"discrimination learning"
 
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