apartheid

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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Noun
  • The largest detention center in California, Adelanto has for years been the focus of complaints from detainees, attorneys and state and federal inspectors about inadequate medical care, overly restrictive segregation and lax mental health services.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
  • This is maybe understandable in the former states of the Confederacy where Republicans took control not as the Party of Lincoln, but as the alternative to the Democrats who had abandoned legal segregation after 90 years of succoring segregation and Jim Crow.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 20 June 2025
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  • The Supreme Court on June 27 sided with a group of parents who want to withdraw their elementary school children from class when storybooks with LGBTQ+ characters are being read, another move that favors claims of religious discrimination over other values, like gay rights.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 28 June 2025
  • The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed at the height of the civil rights movement, is a landmark legislation aimed at preventing racial discrimination in voting.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
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“Apartheid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartheid. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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