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the unfair treatment of members of majority groups resulting from preferential policies, as in college admissions or employment, intended to remedy earlier discrimination against minorities.

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Origin of reverse discrimination

First recorded in 1965–70

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But Republican and Democratic parties have made efforts to reverse that trend.
Asian-Americans Are The New Florida|Tim Mak|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In Scandinavian countries this discrimination has been dramatically reduced.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But most of this gap, say the researchers who carried out the study, is due to discrimination.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
So now the company is asking the FCC to, in effect, reverse itself.
How ‘Ethical’ Hotel Chain Marriott Gouges Guests in the Name of Wi-Fi Security|Kyle Chayka|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST

After the Iranian Revolution, discrimination took on a sectarian flavor.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan|Umar Farooq|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If we had shot 'em without discrimination, the cowards would have got bold, seein' that they weren't safer in rear than in front.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
When, however, you learn by rote you know the task as you learned it, and not in the reverse way.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
Let the student continue this comparison till he attains very nearly the brevity and discrimination displayed by Mr. Killick.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
As before suggested, let the pupil recite the foregoing ten events forwards and the reverse way several times from memory.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
The backs are mostly cut the reverse way of the grain to the present rule, forming what are now termed "slab" backs.
Violins and Violin Makers|Joseph Pearce

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