`titrebOrdinary discrimination / Positive discrimination : what place left for the difference ?`/titrebOrdinary discrimination is a result of confining someone in a double bind : he must be « normal » without being in a position to satisfy that injunction. Discrimination has two principal origins : misunderstanding of the concept of secularity and denial of the rule of equal treatment. It is a result both of differences in treatment of identical situations and of identical treatment of radically different situations. Discrimination will only recede when we succeed in establishing a relationship with “otherness” that is based neither on execration nor on shame.