Discrimination in a sentence as a noun

Age discrimination was at play here. He actually went back to school and kept a positive attitude through all of it.

That's the main problem with subtle discrimination. It leaves those that it affects the most powerless against it, quietly discouraging them.

The prevalence of discrimination toward extreme youth in the software industry is probably a historical artifact of the fact that it's a new industry, so for the most part young people were the ones who "got it." That being said, I think it cuts both ways.

Absent regulations prohibiting packet discrimination, I'm not sure I would do any different if I were in Comcast's shoes.

So when they hear women complaining about discrimination, harassment, glass ceilings, and so on, they think those women are simply "being bitchy." Which simply perpetuates and intensifies the status quo.

Unions - bringing you weekends, the NHS, paid holidays, sick pay, protection from unfair dismissal, safety standards to ensure you don't get injured and die, and stopping discrimination and exploitation. What's not to like?

Aren't there already systems that are supposed to handle discrimination, in private, so that we don't have to witness it being discussed firsthand? Why are people so self-centered that they have to make every innocent joke about politics or gender or society?

They spent most of their time filing discrimination complaints about each other. The Director was brilliant about it, he'd nominate them for awards for exceeding their KPIs or meeting project milestones, or some other nonsense, which allowed him to expand the group and put them in a separate room.

Is duration-of-residence a legitimate basis for such strong civic discrimination rooted in law?

Her issues with pornography are ideological, in that they aren't shared by many men and women who would take issue with sexist behavior or gender based discrimination. However, like many ideologues, she doesn't make that distinction herself.

That being said, if ever you find yourself telling someone who talks of discrimination that it's their problem, you should probably re-evaluate your stance. This is why discrimination is so difficult to counteract it's rarely a conscious or malicious process.

Having laws around parental leave preventing discrimination means that society doesn't have to deal with paying unemployment welfare for women around 30, and having a hard time re-integrating them into the workforce at 40. Instead this cost is spread out among all the companies in the form of employment laws.

This particular individual even goes so far to say that "the biggest problem" is the alleged misuse of labels related to racism or sexism, as if this could somehow be worse that the discrimination the disenfranchised experience on a day-to-day basis. Another commentator states that it is because of her popularity not her sex.

It's discrimination against companies, but it's also discrimination against users based on their tastes, preferences, and possibly socioeconomic status. To say nothing of de-facto censorship issues.

Discrimination definitions

noun

unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice

See also: favoritism favouritism

noun

the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished

See also: secernment