ABSTRACT
All discrimination is wrong prima facie because it violates justice, and that goes for reverse discrimination, too. The practice of reverse discrimination undermines the foundation of the very ideal in whose name it is advocated; it destroys justice, law, equality, and citizenship itself, and replaces them with power struggles and popularity contests. Each works to catch the public eye and political popularity by whatever means of advertising and power politics lend them to the effort, to capitalize as much as possible on temporary popularity until the restless mob picks another group to feel sorry for. In a political context, equality is specified as “equal rights”—equal access to the public realm, public goods and offices, equal treatment under the law—in brief, the equality of citizenship. Just as the discrimination did, the reverse discrimination violates the public equality which defines citizenship and destroys the rule of law for the areas in which the favors are granted.
