What's the difference between positive racial discrimination and traditional racial discrimination?

My guess would be that traditional racial discrimination holds people back due to their race, positive racial discrimination would be when you push a race forward because they need the extra help to overcome inequality for example letting a minority group into college with lower test scores than are required for the rest of the prospective students.

The races differ considerably in many socially significant ways. Discrimination is the process of putting the right people in the right place, fitting task to ability, fitting reward to merit, fitting law to character. Discrimination is a good and a necessary thing.

My guess would be positive is beneficial to that race, kind of how affirmative action works, and traditional is more hateful... We know what that looks like.

"Positive" discrimination is another word for "benevolent" discrimination, i.e. benevolent sexism.

Examples of benevolent sexism: "Women are so cute and nice." "You can hit men, but never hit a woman." "Women are so smart." "Women are better than men at certain jobs."

Example of non-benevolent, "traditional" sexism: "Women suck and are inferior to men."

Examples of benevolent racism: "Asians are so good at math." "Black people have such awesome hair." "Chinese people make such great food." "Black people are so athletic."

Examples of non-benevolent, "traditional" racism: "Mexicans are so lazy."