legal discrimination
Lawful unequal treatment
Legal discrimination refers to differential treatment that is permitted or required by law.
Governments may legally discriminate based on age (voting, drinking, driving), citizenship status (employment restrictions, voting rights), or criminal history (firearm ownership).
The term often appears in debates about where legitimate distinctions end and unjust discrimination begins: Is the military's fitness standard legal discrimination or reasonable qualification?
- segregationForced separation by group
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- whites onlyRacial exclusion policy
- color lineSegregation by race
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
redlining · literacy test · poll tax · exclusion · bias · prejudice · inequality · quota · barrier · loophole · exemption · clause · statute · protected class · disparate impact · glass ceiling · boys club · zoning
- Chinese AmericaChinese Exclusion Act, Chinatown, Chinatowns, transcontinental railroad, railroad workers
- LGBTQ discriminationhomophobia, transphobia, biphobia, hate crimes, prejudice
legal discriminationequal protection
Uniform legal treatment
legal equality · civil rights · equal justice · legal equity · civil liberties
legal discriminationlegal protection
Rights enforceable by law
minority rights · legal safeguards · due process · legal remedy · protected status
legal discriminationequal treatment
Uniform handling regardless of identity
equal protection · non-discrimination · equal rights · equal opportunity · impartiality
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