Flashcards: Discrimination

A snob is a pejorative term for a person who believes there is a correlation between social status and human worth.

Lapušnik or Llapushnik prison camp was a detention camp (also referred to as a prison) that was operated by the Albanian militant organization the KLA near the city of Glogovac in central Kosovo during the Kosovo War.

Supremacism is the worldview that a particular age, race, species, ethnicity, religion, gender, social class, ideology, nation, or culture is superior to other variations of that trait, and advocates those who identify with it to dominate, control, and subjugate those who do not.

Hatred (or hate) is a deep and emotional extreme dislike.

Toleration is "the practice of deliberately allowing or permitting a thing of which one disapproves.

Discrimination against atheists (sometimes called atheophobia or atheistophobia, anti-atheism, or anti-atheist sentiment), both at present and historically, includes the persecution of those identifying themselves or labeled by others as atheists, as well as the discrimination against them.

A blacklist (or black list) is a list or register of entities or people, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, mobility, access or recognition.

Hate speech, outside the law, is speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as gender, ethnic origin, religion, race, disability, or sexual orientation.

Psychological trauma is a type of damage to the mind that occurs as a result of a severely distressing event.

Prejudice is prejudgement or forming an opinion before becoming aware of the relevant facts of a case.

Racial quotas in employment and education are numerical requirements for hiring, promoting, admitting and/or graduating members of a particular racial group.

Anti-German sentiment (or Germanophobia) is defined as an opposition to or fear of Germany, its inhabitants, its culture and the German language.

Anti-Ukrainian sentiment or Ukrainophobia is animosity towards Ukrainians, Ukrainian culture, language or Ukraine as a nation.

Anti-Romanian discrimination and sentiment or Romanian-phobia (Romanian: antiromânism, românofobie) is hostility toward or prejudice against Romanians as an ethnic, linguistic, religious, or perceived racial group, and can range from individual hatred to institutionalized, violent persecution.

Class discrimination, also known as classism, is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class.

Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.

Israel and the apartheid analogy compares Israel's treatment of Palestinians to South Africa's treatment of non-whites during its apartheid era within the context of the anti-humanitarian crime of apartheid, as expressed by the Israeli concept of hafrada.

Handedness is a better (faster or more precise) performance or individual preference for use of a hand, known as the dominant hand.

Social oppression is the socially supported mistreatment and exploitation of a group of individuals.

Al-Akhdam, Akhdam or Achdam (singular Khadem, meaning "servant" in Arabic; also called Al-Muhamasheen, "the marginalized ones") is a minority social group in Yemen.

Cajuns (/ˈkeɪdʒən/; French: les Cadiens or Les Cadiens or les Acadiens, [le kadʒɛ̃, lez‿akadʒɛ̃]) are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.

Homophobic propaganda (or anti-gay propaganda) is propaganda based on homonegativity and homophobia towards homosexual and sometimes other non-heterosexual people.

Anti-Armenian sentiment, also known as Anti-Armenianism and Armenophobia, is a diverse spectrum of negative feelings, dislikes, fears, aversion, derision and/or prejudice towards Armenians, Armenia, and Armenian culture.

("Woman hater" redirects here. For other uses, see Woman Hater (disambiguation).) Misogyny (/mɪˈsɒdʒɪni/) is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls.

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism) – prejudice, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage – has experienced a long history of expression since the days of ancient civilizations, with most of it having originated in the Christian and pre-Christian civilizations of Europe.

Bashing is a harsh, gratuitous, prejudicial attack on a person, group, or subject.

Power harassment is harassment or unwelcome attention of a political nature, often occurring in the environment of a workplace including hospitals, schools and universities.

Racial politics is the practice of political actors exploiting the issue of race to forward an agenda.

Equal opportunity is a stipulation that all people should be treated similarly, unhampered by artificial barriers or prejudices or preferences, except when particular distinctions can be explicitly justified.

The term social criticism often refers to a mode of criticism that locates the reasons for malicious conditions in a society considered to be in a flawed social structure.

Anti-Hinduism is a negative perception or religious intolerance against the practice and practitioners of Hinduism.

Discrimination against the homeless is the act of treating the homeless, or those perceived to be homeless, unfavorably.

Anti-Indian sentiment or Indophobia refers to hostility towards India, Indians, and Indian culture.

Transmisogyny (sometimes trans-misogyny) is the intersection of transphobia and misogyny.

Numerus clausus ("closed number" in Latin) is one of many methods used to limit the number of students who may study at a university.

The Museum of Tolerance (MOT), a multimedia museum in Los Angeles, California, United States, is designed to examine racism and prejudice around the world with a strong focus on the history of the Holocaust.

'Korean ethnic nationalism, or racial nationalism, is a political ideology and a form of ethnic identity that is widely prevalent in modern North and South Korea.

(For other uses, see mosquito (disambiguation).) The Mosquito or Mosquito alarm is an electronic device used to deter loitering by young people by emitting sound at high frequency, in some versions so it can only be heard by younger people.

Microaggression is a term coined by psychiatrist and Harvard University professor Chester M.

White privilege (or white skin privilege) is a term for societal privileges that benefit people identified as white in Western countries, beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances.

Sectarian discrimination is bigotry, discrimination or hatred arising from attaching importance to perceived differences between subdivisions within a group, such as between different denominations of a religion or the factions of a political movement.

Bill May (born January 17, 1979) is an American synchronized swimmer.

Sexualism is either discrimination based on sexuality, or sexuality itself.

Men Against Rape and Discrimination or MARD/M.

Reverse discrimination is discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group in favor of members of a minority or historically disadvantaged group.

Racial biases are a form of implicit bias, which refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect an individual's understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner.

The Yokinen Show Trial was a March 1931 public disciplinary proceeding conducted by leaders of the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) against August Yokinen, a Finnish-American Communist janitor who allegedly made racially disparaging remarks against several African-American members of the organization at a social event.

Anti-Bihari sentiment refers to discrimination against the people of the Indian state of Bihar, which is a region in the north-eastern Gangetic plains.

(For prejudice against England and the English people only, see Anglophobia. For prejudice against Scotland and the Scottish people only, see Anti-Scottish sentiment. For prejudice against Northern Ireland and the Irish people only, see Anti-Irish sentiment. For prejudice against Wales and the Welsh people only, see Cultural relationship between the Welsh and the English § Anti-Welsh sentiment.) Anti-British sentiment is prejudice, fear or hatred against the British Government, the culture or the people of the United Kingdom, or its Overseas territories.

Anti-Canadianism is hostility towards the government, culture, or people of Canada.

Anti-Filipino sentiment refers to the general dislike or hate towards the Philippines, Filipinos or Filipino culture.

Reverse racism is a phenomenon in which discrimination, sometimes officially sanctioned, against a dominant or formerly dominant racial or other group representative of the majority in a particular society takes place, for a variety of reasons, often initially as an attempt at redressing past wrongs.

Carnism is a concept used in discussions of humanity's relation to animals, defined as a prevailing ideology that conditions people to support the use and consumption of animal products, especially meat.

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (usually known in English as the Fundamental Rights Agency; FRA) is a Vienna-based agency of the European Union inaugurated on 1 March 2007.

Anti-Irish sentiment or Hibernophobia may refer to or include racism, oppression, bigotry, persecution, discrimination, hatred or fear of Irish people as an ethnic group or nation, whether directed against Ireland in general or against Irish emigrants and their descendants in the Irish diaspora.

The Prussian Settlement Commission (German: Königlich Preußische Ansiedlungskommission in den Provinzen Westpreußen und Posen; Polish: Królewska Komisja Osadnicza dla Prus Zachodnich i Poznańskiego) was a Prussian government commission that operated between 1886 and 1924, but actively only until 1918.

Gendercide is the systematic killing of members of a specific sex.

White Niggers of America (French: Les Nègres blancs d'Amérique) is a work of non-fiction literature written by Pierre Vallières, a leader of the Front de libération du Québec.

A Class Divided is a 1985 episode of the PBS series Frontline.

Deborah Jane Lawrie (born 14 May 1953), known as Deborah Wardley while married, was the first woman to become a pilot with a major Australian airline after winning a landmark sex discrimination case against Ansett Airlines.

Economic discrimination is discrimination based on economic factors.

Educational Inequality is the difference in the learning results, or efficacy, experienced by students coming from different groups.