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- There was also blatant discrimination against Hutus in all aspects of education,
Chpt 1.7 *discrimination = unfair treatment due to race
- She didn't discriminate among the needy people who arrived at the door,
Chpt 2.11 *discriminate = recognize differences
- Tutsis were slaughtered indiscriminately, and the army retaliated with even greater brutality, killing perhaps as many as fifteen thousand Hutus.†
Chpt 1.7indiscriminately = done without recognition of differencesstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscriminately means not and reverses the meaning of discriminately. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- An enlightened-sounding position, completely at odds with the fact that discrimination against Hutus — and indeed against many Tutsis — was the rule, in education and business, in the army and the institutions of government.†
Chpt 2.13
- This in turn justified, for some Burundian Tutsis, both the slaughter of '72 and continuing discrimination against Hutus.†
Chpt 2.13
- A number of scholars and human rights groups accused the Kagame administration of its own unacknowledged atrocities, of discriminating against the mass of Hutus, of rigging elections, of stifling dissent, of disappearing dissenters.†
Chpt 2.18
- The critics denounced the government's virtual ban on discussions of ethnicity that diverged from the official line — a ploy, they said, to cover up systematic discrimination against Hutus, which was bound to lead to more violence someday.†
Chpt 2.18
- Of the scholars I read, Peter Uvin takes the greatest pains to adduce the possible causes and to discriminate among them, dismissing several that are widely mentioned.†
Chpt Hist
Definitions:
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(1)
(discriminate as in: suffered discrimination) to treat people of different groups differently -- especially unfair treatment due to race, religion or gender
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(2)
(discriminate as in: discriminating taste) to recognize or perceive differences -- especially fine distinctions
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)