as in segregation
a former social system in South Africa in which black people and people from other racial groups did not have the same political and economic rights as white people and were forced to live separately from white people
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Just as slavery was a blight on young Amnerica, the Jim Crow and/or segregation also left its ugly print on our country.—
Bea L. Hines,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2026 -
In court filings, incarcerated people and outside experts described administrative segregation units as psychologically damaging environments that can worsen symptoms and increase suicide risk.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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Five years ago, a similar case generated one of the largest-ever verdicts in a discrimination case involving a single worker — $137 million — but Tesla got the award reduced 98% before reaching a confidential settlement.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
4 June 2026
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Height discrimination, of course, is not a new phenomenon.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
4 June 2026
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