The following Ngrams will showcase the evolving meaning of discrimination from being something good to being something bad. It will also be demonstrated that the frequencies of usage of "social justice" and "Capitalism" began increasing dramatically at around the same time as the change in the meaning of discrimination. All the Ngrams are from the American English corpus with a smoothing of 1. To see higher resolution versions click on the images. To see the Ngram viewers from which they were taken, click on the links over the word Ngram.
The first Ngram plots the following words, from 1840 to 2008, in the following order: discriminate,discriminatory,discriminating,discriminated
The second Ngram plots the following words from 1840 to 2008: discriminate,discriminate against,discriminated against,discrimination against,discriminating against,discriminatory
The third Ngram plots the following words from 1840 to 2008: discrimination,discrimination against,discriminatory,discriminating
The fourth Ngram plots the following words from 1880 to 2008: Capitalism,social justice,discriminatory
Analysis of Ngrams will come later.
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