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"text": "Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?",
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"ref": "2024, Jhariah (lyrics and music), “RE: CONCERNS”, in TRUST CEREMONY:",
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"text": "Many apartheid perpetrators escaped prosecution for their persecution of black Africans and political dissidents.",
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"ref": "2004 January 1, “The Practices of Wolf Persecution, Protection, and Restoration in Canada and the United States”, in BioScience, Oxford University Press:",
"text": "During the early 20th century, wolves were considered undesirable. They were subject to persecution and were extirpated from large areas of their original range. With increased environmental awareness in the 1970s, attitudes toward wolves began to change.",
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"ref": "2008, M. W. Sphero, Religion: The Defamer of God, page 210:",
"text": "[…] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […]",
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"ref": "2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164:",
"text": "Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?",
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"ref": "2024, Jhariah (lyrics and music), “RE: CONCERNS”, in TRUST CEREMONY:",
"text": "I see this not as persecution, but a learning chance to grow.",
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"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "iḍṭihād",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
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"word": "اِضْطِهَاد"
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"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "halacankʻ",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "հալածանք"
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"sense": "the act of persecuting",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "presledvane",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
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"neuter"
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"word": "преследване"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "gonenie",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
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"word": "гонение"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "persecució"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pòhài",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "迫害"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "perzekuce"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
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"word": "forfølgelse"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "vervolging"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "persekutado"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "vainoaminen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "vaino"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "sorto"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "persécution"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "devna",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "დევნა"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verfolgung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schikane"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Drangsalierung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Plage"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Belästigung"
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{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "wrēkei",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "𐍅𐍂𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "wraka",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "𐍅𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌰"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "katadíoxi",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "καταδίωξη"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "díoxi",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
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"word": "δίωξη"
},
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "diōgmós",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "διωγμός"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "redifá",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "רדיפה"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "üldözés"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "üldöztetés"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "géarleanúint"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "persecuzione"
},
{
"alt": "はくがい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hakugai",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "迫害"
},
{
"alt": "迫害",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "bakhae",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "박해"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "çewsandnewe",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "چەوساندنەوە"
},
{
"code": "lad",
"lang": "Ladino",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "afrision"
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{
"code": "lad",
"lang": "Ladino",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "afriisyon"
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{
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verfollegung"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfølgelse"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ēhtnes"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "âzâr",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "آزار"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Forcht"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "prześladowanie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "perseguição"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "persecutare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "preslédovanije",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "пресле́дование"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gonénije",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "гоне́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "trávlja",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "тра́вля"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "napádki",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "напа́дки"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "progon"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "proganjanje"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "persecución"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cacería"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prosecución"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "förföljelse"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "zulüm"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "sự khủng bố"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "farfolgung",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "פֿאַרפֿאָלגונג"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "rdifh",
"sense": "the act of persecuting",
"word": "רדיפֿה"
}
],
"word": "persecution"
}
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