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Discrimination
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Discrimination within sociology is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category. Examples of categories on which discrimination is seen include race and ethnicity, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, weight, disability, employment circumstances, and age. |
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a 1903 Russian book that describes a Jewish and Masonic plot to achieve world domination. It is one of the best known and discussed examples of literary forgery. Elements of the text appear to be plagiarized from an 1864 pamphlet, The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, by French satirist Maurice Joly.
The Protocols is widely considered to be the beginning of contemporary conspiracy theory literature, and takes the form of an instruction manual to a new member of the "elders," describing how they will run the world through control of the media and finance, and replace the traditional social order with one based on mass manipulation.
The book has been widely cited by antisemitic groups, many of whom assert the book's authenticity. The novel remains popular among anti-Zionists in the Middle East. A Mexican version published in 2005 suggested that while the book itself may be fake, a Jewish conspiracy exists nonetheless.
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A sign points the way to a "Colored Waiting Room", outside a Greyhound bus station in Rome, Georgia, United States, in 1943. The sign refers to a room where blacks were allowed to wait for the bus; "colored" was the common euphemism for African Americans at the time, especially in the Southern United States, though the term is now considered offensive.
The provision of separate facilities for white people and black people was the result of a series of state laws, collectively nicknamed Jim Crow laws, making racial segregation the rule of law in many Southern states beginning in 1876. While these laws decreed that such provisions were to be "separate but equal", in practice facilities provided for whites were assuredly of better quality and maintenance than those for blacks. Various Jim Crow laws remained in effect until they were made illegal throughout the U.S. by the Civil Rights Act of 1965.Did you know?
- ...that affirmative action is unlawful in the United Kingdom (where segregation never was actually legal, although practiced)?
- ...that representatives of the American Nazi Party were (deliberately) invited to a Nation of Islam rally in 1962?
- ...that anti-Communist Senator Joseph McCarthy also targeted homosexuals in government, in what has been nicknamed the Lavender Scare?
- ...that disability-rights activist Ed Roberts sued the California Department of Vocational Rehabilitation in 1961, then was appointed as its director in 1975?
- ...that in some African and Asian nations, homosexuality is legally punishable by death?
- ...that some Louisiana parishes enacted sex segregation in schools in reaction to racial integration, in order to avoid miscegenation?
- ...that Dalits were commonly segregated from full participation in social life until the 20th century?
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