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Example: The NBA institutes a rule requiring 50% of players to be non-Hispanic and white. This is well below 62%, the proportion of the population that is non-Hispanic and white. This rule discriminates against every black athlete who would have made the cut but didn't because a less-qualified white player was hired instead.

Discrimination means to select one thing over another because of some criterion. It is precisely the correct word for this. Racial discrimination means selecting one person over another using race as the criterion. Racial discrimination is always immoral and is, thankfully, illegal.