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From: Breakthrough
Posted: Oct 16 07
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Asia, Central African Republic, Norway, Reunion, United States
Armed conflict, Child soldiers, Detention, Discrimination, Forensic anthropology, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ, Natural disasters, Poverty, Racial discrimination, Sexual exploitation
crossing, racial profiling
This video contains graphic footage of human rights abuses
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Come discuss methods of the Judiciary in conspiracy to pervert justice, fabricate evidence and documents, endorsing perjury in Institutionalised RACISM Institutional discrimination is far more complex and more difficult to combat than overt discrimination where there is a perpetrator. In law, we used to refer to "de facto" discrimination, as opposed to "de jure" discrimination. Covaleskie discusses power as consisting of two major types: sovereign and disciplinary. Sovereign power goes with titles and overt authority to dictate rules and regulations. Disciplinary power resides in the rules, norms, and expectations for traditional performance. Institutional discrimination relies on disciplinary power. Since disciplinary power seems to apply the same rules to everyone, there seems to be little discrimination. But when the rules grew from contexts in which there was discrimination, the unstated assumptions carry those discriminatory contexts right along with the rules in present contexts. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/20/121017/147/762/518935
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