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disfavor
noun as in dislike; disgrace
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But Buckley did give conservatives permission to consider as madness the Birchers’ tendency to see anything they disfavored as a communist plot.
But the compact explicitly forbids schools from disfavoring students based on “gender identity,” promoting neutrality toward gender identification outside of women’s spaces.
It violates the Supreme Court’s long-established precedents on the freedom of citizens to donate reasonable amounts to political candidates, and it restricts the liberty of thousands of employees in a particular disfavored industry.
That shaving scene referenced earlier dramatizes why this and other supposedly neutral policies painfully disfavor some people without diving into a medical manual.
“I am very concerned that these actions are meant to punish disfavored dissent,” said Brian Levin, founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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