discriminatory laws
Unjust legal statutes
Discriminatory laws are statutes or regulations that treat people differently based on characteristics like race, sex, religion, or national origin.
The term usually carries negative connotations—laws that disadvantage certain groups: Jim Crow was a system of discriminatory laws.
But some discriminatory laws aim to remedy past injustice, as with affirmative action policies.
- sundown townsSegregated communities expelling minorities nightly
- gerrymanderingManipulating electoral boundaries strategically
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
- segregationForced separation by group
racial covenants · poll taxes · grandfather clause · citizenship tests · Jim Crow laws · separate but equal · Nuremberg Laws · Japanese internment · literacy tests · voter ID laws · sodomy laws · bathroom bills · travel bans
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Legislation forbidding unequal treatment
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Legislation penalizing prejudice-motivated offenses
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