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The same word for a good wine palate and a bad human one.
means Either the keen ability to tell things apart, or treating people unfairly based on the group they belong to.
from From Latin discriminare, to divide or separate, from discrimen, a dividing line — once pure praise for sharp perception, before the human cost soured half its meaning.
Split personalityPraises connoisseurs, condemns bigots, same eight syllables.
Legal weightAnchors civil rights law across most nations.
Older meaningDiscerning taste predates the prejudice sense entirely.