assimilationism

noun

as in antidiscrimination

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  1. antidiscrimination
  2. antiracism
Noun
  • The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces antidiscrimination laws, also enforces a 180-day window for filing a complaint, but that can be extended to 300 days in cases covered by a state or local anti-discrimination law.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Certain states, including Maryland, Rhode Island and Illinois, passed laws mandating better, accessible menopause care that include antidiscrimination protections.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of antidiscrimination
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  • Silicon Valley insisted that their tools could finally eliminate uncertainty and subjectivity from juridical decision and instantiate a perfectly mathematical official antiracism in criminal justice.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the very vocabulary of humanitarianism and antiracism has become so selectively applied or debased as to be meaningless.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
Definition of antiracism
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