Illegal discrimination

As the name implies, “Illegal discrimination” is forms of discrimination covered by national laws against discrimination. Discrimination that is not covered by such laws is still discrimination in other senses of the word, but not in a legal sense. For example, legally speaking, there was no discrimination against Jews in the third Reich: The Jews were not even considered citizens, much less protected by laws against discrimination.

Interactions

This facet of categorism is an expression of discrimination.

It is likely to intersect with facets such as:

• Kyriarchy: Kyriarchy leads to many forms of discrimination that are easy to spot and make laws against.

As well as with abstractions such as:

• incomprehensibilization of the categorization: making up excuses to bypass the law.

Examples of applying this facet to a particular foci of categorism can include:

• Sexism: Having different rules for men and women becomes less and less accepted in society as the civilization progresses.