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discrimination

Definition for discrimination

noun as in bias

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“When you look at discrimination in the face — these people who got up and testified for hours about what it’s like to be denied the right to marry, it’s transformative,” she said in a 2013 interview with The Times.

Olson sued on behalf of two gay couples, and Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that it was unconstitutional discrimination to deny them the right to marry.

“When they start being sued for fair housing discrimination and other things, which they will be, because they have no idea what they're doing, they will come back to us,” Corley said.

From Salon

Other films to be reclassified were 1947's Black Narcissus, which went from U to PG due to "mild threat, violence, brief bloody images and discrimination", and 1995's Higher Learning, which went from 15 to 18 for "sexual violence".

From BBC

Throughout her career, Jamison was open about the discrimination that she and fellow Black company members faced early on.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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