Under the narrow definition of discrimination that the legislation covers, you don't have to be a card carrying member of the National Front screaming racist slogans in the street to be a racist.
Gone are the days when the only way even the narrower duty against discrimination could be enforced was when the victim happened to have the courage, money and support, all at once, to take a time-consuming and often very stressful case to court to enforce her rights.
Mundine was responding to the attorney general, George Brandis' proposal to repeal sections 18 B, C, D and E of the racial discrimination act, narrowing offences around racial discrimination and broadening exemptions for public debate.
This, the researchers suggest, is the result of underlying gender discrimination, which narrows the prospective pool of female candidates down to only the most qualified, talented and politically ambitious.
Even today, we're seeing signs of narrow AI exacerbating problems of discrimination and job loss, and if we don't take proper precautions, we can expect problems to worsen, affecting more people as AI grows smarter and more complex.
We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves.
This, not unlike any level of discrimination in matchmaking, narrows the field.
A narrower bill to bar gender discrimination in the workplace, called the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, passed the Senate in 2013 with 64 votes, including 10 Republicans.
Legalizing discrimination to suit a narrow definition of religious freedom is both foolish and wrong in this brand of conservatism.
