Your bad faith question implies there could only be one answer to this question, which I would hope you know is untrue, as the answer clearly relies on the authors/readers ethical system, which are relative. For instance, one could imagine a utilitarian ethical system where you could discriminate against someone's race and cause a good much larger than the 'bad' of discrimination. OTOH, someone could have a reductionist moral system and just think 'racial discrimination = bad'. I know which side of the fence I fall on.