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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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(verb) to cause to seem inferior; disparage / (verb) to take away a part so as to impair; detract / (verb) to act beneath one's position or character / (LEGAL) an exemption from or relaxation of a rule or law

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derogation



the favorability principle has been replaced with widespread “derogation,” meaning that firm-level agreements can, if negotiated, provide greater flexibility and less favorable terms and conditions of work than the Labor Code requires

—p.106 The French Road to Neoliberalism (83) by Chris Howell
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5 years, 7 months ago


all of which turn “homemade” into a derogation and “factory made” or “store bought” into a boast

—p.276 13. The Universal Market (271) by Harry Braverman
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2 weeks, 1 day ago


disparaged the film as a “white savior narrative”—a phrase that is now a routine derogation of certain cross-racial sagas of resistance to white supremacy

—p.52 The Trouble With Uplift (50) by Adolph L. Reed Jr.
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4 years, 11 months ago