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reverse discrimination

discrimination in hiring, college admissions, etc. directed against members of certain social or racial groups, as white males, thought of as being dominant or having benefited from past discrimination against minority groups who are now favored, often as a result of affirmative action

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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The term should be discrimination. Reverse is bias. This makes the Law and People who use the term appear ignorant. If the Law were to be just, the case would be presented with the facts and not use names or race, the facts in any case should prove allegations wrong or right. I have always thought racism to be a two way street. In my case, when king was killed , my school had all of us " white people" go to the basement of the school, until all of the Black people went home. I chose not to and went outside to go home. I got jumped and kicked. The teachers and the principal did nothing to these kids. Sounds like they added to racism instead of doing the just thing. Sounds like justice is a socially decided law of the time instead of being decided on rules that apply to everyone , all the time. There is and always will be corruption in the way laws are applied, unless we make the law what it was meant to be. Blind. All cases should be determined based on facts not politics, race, social affiliation, money or anything else. When will this happen? Never.

Posted by Tim Abell 80 days ago.

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