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institutionalized racism

Institutionalized Racism is the process of purposely discriminating against certain groups of people through the use of biased laws or practices. Often, institutionalized racism is subtle and manifests itself in seemingly innocuous ways, but its effects are anything but subtle. An example of this type of racism is the redlining of districts to keep certain people from moving in to a new neighborhood, pervasive in the financial industry in the 1950s and 60s.

Those accepted, established, evident, visible, and respected forces, social arrangements, institutions, structures, policies, precedents and systems of social relations that operate and are manipulated in such a way as to allow, support, or acquiesce to acts of individual racism and to deprive certain racially identified categories within a society a chance to share, have equal access to, or have equal opportunity to acquire those things, material and nonmaterial, that are defined as desirable and necessary for rising in an hierarchical class society while that society is dependent, in part, upon that group they deprive for their labor and loyalty. Institutional racism is more subtle, less visible, and less identifiable but no less destructive to human life and human dignity than individual acts of racism
Institutionalized racism deprives a racially identified group, usually defined as generally inferior to the defining dominant group, equal access to an treatment in education, medical care, law, politics, housing, etc. - Louis L. Knowles and Kenneth Prewitt, editors, Institutional Racism in America (Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969).
by Dong Woo October 10, 2005
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institutionally gay

A prisoner who has sex with other same-sex prisoners yet claims to be straight.
"Yo man, the guard's not looking. Come here and blow me."
"No way! I'm not gay!"
"I'm not gay either man, I'm just INSTITUTIONALLY gay."
"Oh, so it's OK for me to blow you?"
"Totally!"
"Cool! Mmmmf mfff mmm mfmmmm."
by Black@Heart November 15, 2009
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Hwa Chong Institution

A prestigious school in its country, fripping hard to get in. Msg promoter, asks students to spend money for other poorer peeps, rich a f school. Much better than raffles institution
Yooooo look, its hwa chong institution! So cool! Its waaaay better that ri.
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The point where a person has been in post-graduate school so long, either studying or teaching, they can no longer cope in the real world; they view all problems in the world as black & white and take pride in always being politically correct.
Richard's been struggling with his new job at Subway after graduating with degrees in eastern philosophy and liberal arts, I think he might be academically institutionalized by now.
by hughmurris September 5, 2012
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Hwa Chong Institution

prestigious school that's thirsty for msg and students have to pay for legit everything like class shirts and cca merch. enemy of raffles institution and anglo chinese school in competitions but still cool. full of rich people even the poorest kid here still can afford a lot of stuff
1.whoa look at that hci dude beside that ri kid, that hci dude's way cooler than that ri nerd.
2.wait what school is this omg it's hci, hwa chong institution, ri kids stay away. jk hwa chong isn't that prestigious
by elitistsociety August 31, 2021
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Raffles Institution

Raffles Institution is a premier school in its country. Everyone in the school is thought of as nerds, but in actually fact half of the school doesn't hand in their work on time, and the other half is too busy acting cool.

However, miraculously, the school excels in almost all fields and competitions it takes part in.
Have you seen the marks the people in Raffles Institution get? They are impossibly high!
by Random RI student April 26, 2006
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st. xavier's institution

A school based in Sodepur, West Bengal. Home to the most trash teachers and a poledancing principal.
Guy 1: Did u go to SXI(St. Xavier's Institution) ?
Guy 2: Yea, I fucking hated it.
Guy 1: Understandable.
by Ar5enik July 7, 2022
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