Sentences with phrase «racial distinctions»

Since human beings feel pain and cattle feel pain, the theory holds, we are equals; our differences are as insignificant as racial distinctions.

Drawing on the classical tradition of bourgeois European painting, Yiadom - Boayke inverts this staid style by placing dark - skinned subjects on her canvases, though her loose, blurred brushstrokes negate any traces of racial distinction.

This approach tends to dissolve racial distinctions through the growth of dispassionate understanding and serves to diminish racial conflict through appeal to what is universal.

People are forced by social arrangements and expectations based on prejudice into situations that make the intrinsically irrational and arbitrary racial distinctions to some degree justified.

When an entire social system is permeated with racial distinctions, it is important to be able to recognize at a glance the race to which a person belongs, so as to leave no doubt about the behavior appropriate in relation to him.

The «black / white» (dark / light) skin color distinction is certainly a visual one; so the fact that dogs can pick up on that while they might leave other racial distinctions aside is fairly predictable.

In the «Always a Winner» series, which addresses the Black Lives Matter movement, police batons are phallic symbols and clown makeup suggests racial distinctions.

After the Civil War, the federal government was much less OK with so - called «black codes,» restricting the rights of freedmen based on explicitly racial distinctions, with not even a fig leaf of justification that it applied to all citizens.

In the past, many parents of transracial adoptees raised their children with the idea that racial distinctions didn't matter.

The government's act to appropriate funds from Indigenous land councils in order to fund its own initiative may be found to be an act of relevant racial distinction where it can be shown that other communities in the same or similar situations do not have their profits or shares from royalty monies appropriated for government initiatives.

Race is an artificial and arbitrary social construct, and there is no biological or scientific basis for the racial distinctions we make between people.

Whereas it is right to say that all racial distinctions are arbitrary and should not impede access to what is normally available to the citizen, freedom of religious belief and expression is also a human right.

Touting the accolades of a school in one district, while remaining silent on another school may be alluding to a racial distinction that steers prospective buyers out of one neighborhood and into a different one.