Reverse Discrimination is discrimination against members of the dominant or majority group, who support minority or historically disadvantaged members. Groups can be defined in terms of race, gender, ethnicity, or other factors. This discrimination may seek to remedy social inequalities in which minorities have less access to privileges enjoyed by the majority. In such cases it is intended to eliminate any discrimination that minority groups may encounter. Likely label discrimination can also be used to highlight inherent discrimination in affirmative action programs. Reverse discrimination may be defined as unequal treatment of members of the majority group resulting from preferential policies, such as in college or employment acceptance, intended to improve prior discrimination against minorities.
Conceptualizing affirmative action efforts as reverse discrimination began to become popular in the early to mid-1970s, time periods that focused on less representative policies and measures intended to improve the impact of past discrimination on government and business.
Laws in some countries, such as the UK, draw the distinction between "equality of conditions" and "equality of results", based on the idea that equal treatment can sometimes act to defend inequality rather than eliminate it. Opponents of this difference may mark it as an example of reverse discrimination.
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In the workplace
When certain group members have been banned from certain occupations, it is said that this group has received less than a fair share of the work, is concerned, and deserves to receive more by way of compensation. As such, the group is compensated for lack of work or opportunities in the past. Therefore, existing groups in the workplace will be discriminated against, even if they have never been denied work before. This example would be an organizational effort to employ more women to meet federal guidelines. Nevertheless, organizations can reject the same chance of action for men. If the point of inverse discrimination is to compensate the aggrieved group, it would not matter if those who are employed privileged are not among the original victims of discrimination. What's more, reverse discrimination beneficiaries are not often the same people who are harmed by genuine discrimination, and those who now bear the brunt of counter discrimination are rarely the same people who practice the original discrimination. Therefore, reverse discrimination is deemed irrelevant to the purpose of compensating for past injustices and unfair to those whose superior qualifications are exceeded.
It is often disputed by majority groups that they are discriminated against for recruiting and promoting because of affirmative action policies. However, critics of this argument often mention the "symbolic" importance of a job to be considered as well as qualified. Many feel that basing a decision to discriminate a group of people should not be based on symbolism but on objective and verifiable facts. Thomas Sowell says that the meaning of "qualified" has been stretched to "qualify for training", and "available" supplies include women who are no longer working (usually because of their husbands' prosperity).
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European Union
Under EU law, reversed discrimination occurs when a Member State's national law provides a worse treatment of its own citizens or domestic products than any other EU citizen/goods under EU law. This may occur because of the subsidiary principle of subsidiarity that the EU law does not apply in pure internal situations to one Member State.
India
In India, among the limited positions for higher education in Government institutions, 50 percent of seats are reserved for caste members and disadvantaged economic class. The protected category candidates can choose a position from Open 50 percent if he has a good reward. This results in opposite discrimination against Open/General/Non-Reserve candidates. Furthermore, since there is no economic criterion in classifying the Reservation, the poor part of the quiet class is often poor while the prosperous part is benefiting the next generation. In addition, the poorer sections of the Open/Public Categories have no access to higher education even for a slightly lower achievement on a competitive exam. Differences in achievement on admission exams are often very wide between classes reserved and unprotected. In India, the term is often used by citizens who protest reservations and quotas.
Indian law today also promotes upside-down religious discrimination, since Hindu mandirs are required to pay for Goods and Services Tax while mosques and churches are freed from the same.
United Kingdom
British law draws the distinction between Provision Equality and Equality of Results, especially in terms of the rights of persons with disabilities. The 1995 Disability Discrimination Act and the 2010 Equality Act make it clear that treating two persons identically may not be sufficient to ensure that they have been treated equally in law if the task, physical environment or service does not offer them equality of results. The law provides for people with disabilities to request the provision of 'reasonable adjustments' to ensure that they can access jobs, services and environments built with the same potential as those with no special needs. In November 2007, David Rosin, former vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons, wrote in the Hospital Doctor magazine: "It is time someone talks about reverse discrimination in respect of achievement awards" and says that "minority and ethnic minority consultants given special treatment to meet artificial quotas ".
United States
Affirmative action in the United States has been the subject of controversy and litigation. Proponents advocate for it as a way to end and correct the effects of discrimination. Opponents say that in itself is a form of discrimination.
The number of reverse discrimination cases filed by the Commission for Equal Opportunities has doubled in the 1990s and continues to reflect the growing percentage of all discrimination cases.
A study by S. K. Camara & amp; M. P. Orbe collects narratives from individuals who describe situations in which they are discriminated against by the status of their majority group (cases of reverse discrimination).
Many White respondents describe discrimination based on their race, some report gender discrimination. A small number of heterosexuals report discrimination based on their sexual orientation.
Colleges
In 1996, the University of Texas had to postpone the use of racial preferences in admission to their college after the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit banned schools from considering race in admitting students. The ruling stipulates that diversity in education can not justify racial-based distinctions. Hopwood v. Texas is a lawsuit filed by four white applications to the Texas Law School, which are denied entry even though their average value is greater than the accepted minority application. The four white students also received greater grades of Law School Entrance Exams. This decision is based on the motion of prohibiting affirmative action, seen in California in 1997, Washington in 1998, and Florida in 1999.
However, in 2003, in Grutter v. Bollinger, the Supreme Court allows the University of Michigan Law School to continue to consider the race among other related diversity factors. The decision is the first and only affirmative action policy that is legally challenged to survive in court. However, this decision has caused confusion among universities, and lower courts, regarding the status of affirmative action across the nation.
In 2012, Fisher v. The University of Texas reaches the Supreme Court. The University of Texas allegedly uses the race as a factor in denying Abigail Fisher's application, refusing his fair review. The lower courts supported the program, but the Supreme Court vacated the lower court ruling and sent the case back to the Fifth Circuit to review it properly. The college first began to consider the race in acceptance to correct discrimination, but in turn contradicted the same opportunity clause.
Opponent
According to a report drafted in 1995 for the United States Department of Labor by Alfred W. Blumrosen, affirmative action policy has led to several claims of discrimination reversed by white people. The report found less than 100 cases of reverse discrimination among more than 3,000 discriminatory opinions by district courts and Federal appeals from 1990 to 1994. The report shows that a high proportion of claims is inappropriate. In the Blumrosen report, a national survey reveals only a few white people who experience reverse discrimination, and only 5 to 12 percent of whites believe they have been denied work or promotion because of it. Blumrosen also pointed out that reports filed with Opportunities Commission Opportunities offer additional evidence that reverse discrimination is rare: 2% of cases are white men, sex discrimination, race or national origin and 1.8% are white women wearing racial discrimination.
The new report by the Commission for Cooperation Opportunities has found that less than 10% of race-related complaints are white, only 18% of gender-related complaints and only 4% of court cases filed by men. Analysis of other evidence suggests that when national white samples were asked whether they personally experienced job loss, promotion, or college admission because of their race, 2% -13% said yes.
See also
General
- Affirmative action
- Afrocentrism
- Double standard
- Reversing sexism
- White guilty
Racing
- Black Economic Empowerment (South Africa)
- Color blind (race)
- Land reform in Zimbabwe (though directed towards minorities)
- Malaysia's New Economic Policy
- Ricci v. DeStefano
Gender
- All female short lists â ⬠<â â¬
- Women and the first children (protocol)
- Female parking lot â ⬠<â â¬
Usia
- Age of consent reform
Social
- Reservation in India
References
Further reading
- Cashmore, Ellis, ed. (2004). "Reversing Racism/Discrimination". Racist Encyclopedia and Ethnic Studies . Routledge. p.Ã, 373. ISBNÃ, 978-1-13-444706-0.
- Crosby, Faye J. (2004). "Reverse Discrimination?". Affirmative Action is Dead: Long Affirmative Action . Yale Press University. pp.Ã, 29-60. ISBN: 0-30-010129-5.
- Shindler, Michael (2014). "Conversely-Discrimination in Higher Education". The Apolonia Uprising. Archived from the original in 2015-08-26.
- Sampson, William A. (2008). "Institutional Discrimination". In Schaefer, Richard T. Race Encyclopedia, Ethnicity, and Society . SAGE. pp.Ã, 726-729. ISBN 978-1-41-292694-2.
- Tryfonidou, Alina (2009). Reverse discrimination in EC law . European Monograph. 64 . Kluwer Law International. ISBN: 978-9-04-112751-8.
- Warburton, Nigel (2004). "Reversing discrimination". Philosophy: basics (4th ed.). Routledge. pp.Ã, 72-73. ISBN: 978-0-41-532772-5.
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