ABSTRACT
The justice or injustice of “inverse discrimination” is a question of pressing social importance. On the one hand it is argued that when a morally irrelevant characteristic such as race, creed, or sex has been treated as morally relevant and injustices have resulted, it is then proper to treat that characteristic as morally relevant in order to make reparations. On the other hand it is argued that if the characteristic in question is morally irrelevant, its use even in this manner would still constitute discrimination, discrimination now in favor of those possessing the characteristic and against those not, but unjust discrimination still.
