"I don't like black people, do you?"

[opinterph]

You're right and I was wrong.

Not necessarily. If the writer fails to properly communicate a coherent and meaningful message, then the reader cannot be disparaged for misunderstanding. I’m surprised it took four days for someone to illuminate the problem.

I'll say this because I would want it said to me …

The question is intentionally general. I am disappointed that nobody, including the thread creator, has been able formulate an answer. If you or other readers find the ambiguity to be unreasonable or objectionable, then: Excluding persons protected by laws or similar rules prohibiting discrimination against them (to perhaps include discrimination based upon race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, and marital status - or the perception associated with any of the forgoing) is it okay to discriminate against people you don’t like?

 

[rareboy]

We all discriminate against people we don't 'like'.

But the question is whether it is a generalized discrimination based on skin colour, religion, sex, sexuality, status, education, physique, weight, political affiliation, etc. etc. etc.

I freely discriminate against racists, homophobes, misogynists and any collective affiliation of people who don't hold the same liberal values as I do and/or who I know are out to cause harm or pain to others. And I discriminate against them in many ways. Because sleep with dogs and you'll wake up with fleas...which is probably discriminatory against dogs.

And I see that as a difference.

I don't believe I discriminate based on physical or tribal characteristics. I wouldn't discriminate renting any property to people who possibly hold views that are anathema to me, because they should never come up as long as they hold those views in private and do not put them into action in order to harm others. The moment that they use my property as a springboard or platform to cause harm or distress to others then they have likely broken the terms of the agreement we have.

But discrimination against individuals you don't 'like' is universal.

At the same time, I don't see any issue for anyone's (including my own) discrimination, to be called out and challenged.

 

[TX-Beau]

As Rareboy has pointed out, personal dislike can lead to discrimination by strict definition of the term, but it isn't in any way the same as societal, structural, discrimination of the kind prohibited by law.

Suspect classes become suspect classes because there is a history of harm and abuse.

The general ethical question of dislike being that kind of discriminations is just pushing two things together that aren't the same. I don't own an Apt. building, but if I did, the discrimination I'd be practicing would be the employment and credit check kind.

That's not the same thing either.