apartheid
(by extension) Any similar policy of racial segregation or separation and discrimination, particularly when in favor of a minority rule.
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Uh, no. It doesn’t mean that. AND my taxes, as are the taxes of EVERY American, is paying for Israel’s genocide. ALSO, it’s been going on since the west established the Zionist state as a settler colonial project in…
Is the reveal only available on the apartheid app(s)?
Great story about how it's good and right to undertake sabotage activity against a brutal apartheid regime. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
And the answer to that is dealing with those individual organisers by pushing them out, calling them out or organising alternatives. *not* suggesting that the literal millions of British people who have marched again…
NATIONAL DEMO 9th of May, 14:00 ‼️ 📍 Elisabethenanlage Basel STOP NAKBA! Join us on the 9th of May in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom. No more displacement, no more apartheid, no more imperial…
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(by extension) Any similar policy of racial segregation or separation and discrimination, particularly when in favor of a minority rule.
The reality, however, is a disquieting and entirely white town, littered with old apartheid flags and monuments to the architects of segregation.
“Great story about how it's good and right to undertake sabotage activity against a brutal apartheid regime. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“And the answer to that is dealing with those individual organisers by pushing them out, calling them out or organising alternatives. *not* suggesting that the literal millions of British people who have marched against genocide and apartheid are anti semitic.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“NATIONAL DEMO 9th of May, 14:00 ‼️ 📍 Elisabethenanlage Basel STOP NAKBA! Join us on the 9th of May in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom. No more displacement, no more apartheid, no more imperialist violence. Palestine will be free.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“"the real, really bad stuff" Is it though? I've never seen anything that wasn't to do with opposing genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid. Either because people do call it out, or it isn't there.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Since Slovo Park’s establishment south of Eldorado Park in the last years of apartheid, the residents of this informal settlement hoped for dignified development under the new democratic state. Read groundup.org.za/article/a-de... by Marie Huchzermeyer”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(by extension) A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.
The 1973 Apartheid Convention conferred universal jurisdiction to the state signatories to prosecute those who commit apartheid.
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(South Africa, historical) The policy of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
She don't care about the rest at all / She's got a system they call apartheid / It keeps a brother in a subjection
“Uh, no. It doesn’t mean that. AND my taxes, as are the taxes of EVERY American, is paying for Israel’s genocide. ALSO, it’s been going on since the west established the Zionist state as a settler colonial project in the ME so they could control oil, AND it’s an apartheid state.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Is the reveal only available on the apartheid app(s)?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Like, again, this shit is not hard. You just don’t even want to try. You want to yell at Jews because it means you don’t have to confront how Israel’s apartheid regime is an extension of earlier British control over Palestine.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“You can take the Afrikaner out of South Africa, but you can’t take the apartheid racism out of him www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“youtube.com/post/Ugkx0YK... They look like the gangs of thugs in apartheid south africa... what the f@ck...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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A South African historical euphemism used during the apartheid era as official bureaucratic language for the system of racial segregation and white-minority rule enforced between 1948 and 1994. The deliberately bland phrase 'plural relations' was used by the apartheid government to frame its racist policies as neutral administrative management of different population groups. It is now recognised as a chilling example of how language can sanitise atrocity.