Acceptance & Diversity Vocabulary

A criminal act directed at an individual or property because of the victim’s race, gender, religion, nation of origin, sexual orientation, or disability.

• Hate Crime

• Scapegoating

• Violence

• Discrimination

Behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone. An action that emotionally or physically harms someone.

• Hate Crime

• Bias

• Prejudice

• Violence

The systematic destruction or the attempted extermination of a group of people.

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Hate Crime

• Genocide

A widely held but oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or group.

• Bias

• Prejudice

• Stereotype

• Racism

Unfair treatment (action taken) of a person or group on the basis of prejudice and often connected to race, age, gender, or religion.

• Discrimination

• Genocide

• Harassment

• Apathy

To intimidate or aggressively pressure.

• Bias

• Harassment

• Supremacy

• Violence

Unfairly blaming an individual or group for circumstances that are not their fault.

• Discrimination

• Hate Group

• Violence

• Scapegoating

Prejudgment or opinion (thinking but not acting) formed without sufficient knowledge. Unreasonable or unfair dislike of a person or group.

• Hate Crime

• Prejudice

• Apathy

• Discrimination

The ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.

• Apathy

• Empathy

• Perseverance

• Tolerance

The dimensions of human identity such as race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, socio-economic status, nationality, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, ability, and age and other identities.

• Supremacy

• Bigotry

• Tolerance

• Diversity