Discriminate
verb
To unfairly treat a person or group differently from another.
It is wrong to discriminate someone based on their race or color.
Often appears as...
- discriminate against
- discriminate on the basis of
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Disapproving
verb
To recognize and understand the difference between two or more things or people.
It is important to discriminate between facts and opinions when reading a news article.
Often appears as...
- discriminate between
- discriminate among
verb
To make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, sex, or age.
The law clearly states that employers must not discriminate on the basis of age.
Often appears as...
- discriminate on the grounds of
- illegally discriminate
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Academic
verb
To unfairly treat a person or group differently from another.
It is wrong to discriminate someone based on their race or color.
Often appears as...
- discriminate against
- discriminate on the basis of
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To recognize and understand the difference between two or more things or people.
It is important to discriminate between facts and opinions when reading a news article.
Often appears as...
- discriminate between
- discriminate among
verb
To make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, sex, or age.
The law clearly states that employers must not discriminate on the basis of age.
Often appears as...
- discriminate on the grounds of
- illegally discriminate
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Used in a negative context to describe unfair treatment.
Companies should not discriminate based on personal choices.
Pro Tip 2/3Prejudicial Action
Often involves prejudice or harmful stereotypes about groups.
Laws are in place to prevent companies from discriminating.
Pro Tip 3/3Implicit Bias
May occur without conscious awareness.
Some people discriminate without realizing their biases.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Used in a negative context to describe unfair treatment.
Companies should not discriminate based on personal choices.
Pro Tip 2/3Prejudicial Action
Often involves prejudice or harmful stereotypes about groups.
Laws are in place to prevent companies from discriminating.
Pro Tip 3/3Implicit Bias
May occur without conscious awareness.
Some people discriminate without realizing their biases.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Used in a negative context to describe unfair treatment.
Companies should not discriminate based on personal choices.
Pro Tip 2/3Prejudicial Action
Often involves prejudice or harmful stereotypes about groups.
Laws are in place to prevent companies from discriminating.
Pro Tip 3/3Implicit Bias
May occur without conscious awareness.
Some people discriminate without realizing their biases.
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Rick Guidotti: From...
I'll kind of quickly go through the album. I was very interested, at that point, getting calls from everybody in the world, to find out more about this idea, a message, about albinism, or perceptions of people in communities about this syndrome, albinism. So I started hearing about stigmas, and discrimination, so what I looked at is really trying to explore cultural perceptions
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Bryan Stevenson: We need...
And I began giving her my rap. "We're trying to challenge injustice. We're trying to help people who have been wrongly convicted. We're trying to confront bias and discrimination in the administration of criminal justice. We're trying to end life without parole sentences for children. We're trying to do something about the death penalty.
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How We Can Make the...
Secondly, does everyone have the building blocks of a better education, information, health and a sustainable environment? And does everyone have the opportunity to improve their lives, through rights, freedom of choice, freedom from discrimination, and access to the world's most advanced knowledge?
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What does my headscarf...
Unconscious bias is not the same as conscious discrimination. I'm not saying that in all of you, there's a secret sexist or racist or ageist lurking within, waiting to get out. That's not what I'm saying. We all have our biases. They're the filters through which we see the world around us.
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Why should you read...
but also a strategy for surviving an unjust world on one’s own terms. Her work often takes troubling features of the world such as discrimination on the basis of race, gender, class, or ability, and invites the reader to contemplate them in new contexts. One of her most beloved novels,
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The way we think about...
our organizations are tiny up against them, and we have a belief system that keeps them tiny. We have two rulebooks. We have one for the nonprofit sector, and one for the rest of the economic world. It's an apartheid, and it discriminates
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The lie that invented...
and sent across the internet. And beneath those visible events, the stubborn data, the studies showing systemic racism in every institution we housing segregation, job discrimination, the deeply racialized inequities in our schools
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Designing for a more...
realize that if these different forms of oppression are by design then they can be redesigned redesign creating a world that embraces the rights dignity and power of all people especially people facing systemic discrimination
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The urgency of...
needed to combine a race and gender discrimination claim to tell the story of the discrimination they were experiencing. Why wasn't the real unfairness law's refusal to protect African-American women
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KKK: Then and Now PIPE...
laws in the south that legally supported racial discrimination seeing the civil rights movement as a threat to white rule the Klan went on the attack
Video examples
Rick Guidotti: From...
I'll kind of quickly go through the album. I was very interested, at that point, getting calls from everybody in the world, to find out more about this idea, a message, about albinism, or perceptions of people in communities about this syndrome, albinism. So I started hearing about stigmas, and discrimination, so what I looked at is really trying to explore cultural perceptions
Video examples
Bryan Stevenson: We need...
And I began giving her my rap. "We're trying to challenge injustice. We're trying to help people who have been wrongly convicted. We're trying to confront bias and discrimination in the administration of criminal justice. We're trying to end life without parole sentences for children. We're trying to do something about the death penalty.
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How We Can Make the...
Secondly, does everyone have the building blocks of a better education, information, health and a sustainable environment? And does everyone have the opportunity to improve their lives, through rights, freedom of choice, freedom from discrimination, and access to the world's most advanced knowledge?
Video examples
What does my headscarf...
Unconscious bias is not the same as conscious discrimination. I'm not saying that in all of you, there's a secret sexist or racist or ageist lurking within, waiting to get out. That's not what I'm saying. We all have our biases. They're the filters through which we see the world around us.
Video examples
Why should you read...
but also a strategy for surviving an unjust world on one’s own terms. Her work often takes troubling features of the world such as discrimination on the basis of race, gender, class, or ability, and invites the reader to contemplate them in new contexts. One of her most beloved novels,
Video examples
The way we think about...
our organizations are tiny up against them, and we have a belief system that keeps them tiny. We have two rulebooks. We have one for the nonprofit sector, and one for the rest of the economic world. It's an apartheid, and it discriminates
Video examples
The lie that invented...
and sent across the internet. And beneath those visible events, the stubborn data, the studies showing systemic racism in every institution we housing segregation, job discrimination, the deeply racialized inequities in our schools
Video examples
Designing for a more...
realize that if these different forms of oppression are by design then they can be redesigned redesign creating a world that embraces the rights dignity and power of all people especially people facing systemic discrimination
Video examples
The urgency of...
needed to combine a race and gender discrimination claim to tell the story of the discrimination they were experiencing. Why wasn't the real unfairness law's refusal to protect African-American women
Video examples
KKK: Then and Now PIPE...
laws in the south that legally supported racial discrimination seeing the civil rights movement as a threat to white rule the Klan went on the attack
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Quote examples
Bayard Rustin
American Leader
If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
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Carter G. Woodson
American Historian
If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
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John Lewis
American Politician
We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.
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Coretta Scott King
American Activist
I think that... discrimination in the job market is a very important area where work needs to be done.
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Betsy DeVos
American Public Servant
Discrimination in any form is wrong. I don't support discrimination in any form.
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Angela Merkel
German Statesman
I'm someone who is very supportive of us eliminating all discrimination.
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Pooja Bedi
Indian Actress
I don't discriminate between a boy and girl when it comes to friendship.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Zendaya
American Actress
Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
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Charles Bukowski
American Author
The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
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Bayard Rustin
American Leader
If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
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Carter G. Woodson
American Historian
If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
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John Lewis
American Politician
We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.
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Coretta Scott King
American Activist
I think that... discrimination in the job market is a very important area where work needs to be done.
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Betsy DeVos
American Public Servant
Discrimination in any form is wrong. I don't support discrimination in any form.
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Angela Merkel
German Statesman
I'm someone who is very supportive of us eliminating all discrimination.
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Pooja Bedi
Indian Actress
I don't discriminate between a boy and girl when it comes to friendship.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Zendaya
American Actress
Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
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Charles Bukowski
American Author
The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
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