How to Use reverse discrimination in a Sentence

reverse discrimination

noun

• He claimed that reverse discrimination was to blame for his unemployment.
• The idea that white men were the victims of reverse discrimination.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2018
• But a judge has put the money on hold in the face of lawsuits filed by white farmers claiming that the program is unfair – reverse discrimination.
  — Roxana Hegeman and Allen G. Breed, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2021
• But a judge has put the money on hold in the face of lawsuits filed by White farmers claiming that the program is unfair — reverse discrimination.
  — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2021
• There will be those among your staff who will question whether your efforts toward DEI are a covert form of reverse discrimination.
  — Marinel De Jesus, Outside Online, 8 June 2018
• So there’s the potential for reverse discrimination, and other things like that to also be called into play.
  — Whitney Friedlander, Variety, 28 Feb. 2022
• But Turnbull says lawyers are seeing an uptick in reverse discrimination claims.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• Universities have long been allowed to practice a form of ‘reverse discrimination’ against many Asian groups.
  — Pradheep J. Shanker, National Review, 23 Mar. 2021
• It’s one thing to speak out on diversity issues, another to practice—even briefly—a form of reverse discrimination.
  — Fox News, 21 May 2021
• From his head to his toes, Jared was racist, hiding behind fake equality in his pathetic arguments and complaints about reverse discrimination.
  — Terri Schlichenmeier, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2018
• Taken further, these credos of noblesse oblige could be viewed as an open invitation for reverse discrimination.
  — Sam Walker, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2018
• This spurred decades of dueling lawsuits between Black and white firefighters and applicants claiming racial bias and reverse discrimination.
  — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2022
• By the early nineteen-seventies, rejected white applicants at a number of universities were beginning to sue—charging that the schools had engaged in reverse discrimination.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
• As far back as the early 1990s, reverse discrimination lawsuits have been filed against law enforcement agencies across the country that have implemented affirmative action initiatives.
  — Christina Carrega and Emma Tucker, CNN, 31 Dec. 2021
• The objection that redressing a historic wrong amounts to reverse discrimination is, apparently, timeless.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
• From this perspective, opponents of affirmative-action programs argue that Asians face reverse discrimination from elite schools that hold back their acceptance rates, despite stellar test scores, to admit less qualified people of color.
  — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
• Most notable, civil rights advances resulted in the desegregation of the federal and District government workforces, reversing discrimination that began, formally at least, more than 50 years earlier during the Woodrow Wilson administration.
  — Anthony A. Williams, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018
• Courts could rule affirmative action programs unconstitutional for federal contractors or be more receptive to reverse discrimination claims against private companies.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 31 May 2023
• Some Republican senators have subtly suggested that Mr. Biden’s nomination amounted to reverse discrimination.
  — New York Times, 20 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024