Persecution is negative attention towards a person or group based on race, religion, gender, or other factors. It can overlap with racism, discrimination, and sexism. Religious and racial persecution are common, and can lead to violence and genocide. Persecution can also be based on gender, sexual orientation, and social status. It can be considered a criminal act and a psychological disorder.
Persecution is usually an attack or a general form of negative attention directed at a person or group of people based on a general aspect of their being, such as race, age, religion, gender or any other similar issue. As a basic concept, it can often overlap with ideas such as racism, sexism, discrimination, and other similar issues, although it can often be used on its own as a term to refer to an effort or movement made against a group or person. Persecution is often an aggressive or negative effort that can be made by anyone or any group against another person or group, regardless of perceived levels of social status or power.
There are many forms of persecution, typically based on perceived differences in beliefs or physical attributes. Religious persecution is one of the most common forms and appears to have existed for much of recorded human history. This is often caused by people of a religious creed or system who view other forms of religion as inferior or incorrect. While this type of behavior can be potentially harmless, it can also manifest itself as violence. Numerous wars and murders have been committed because of this kind of intolerance.
Racial persecution is often based on physical differences or differences in family or tribal background. This type of mistreatment has created situations such as African slavery and the European and American slave trade that arose from such negative attitudes towards other people. There have also been numerous cases of genocide instigated due to racial or ethnic intolerance. This type of action can often have little to do with a person’s skin color or differences in facial features, and more to do with the perceived ethnicity of others due to differences in genealogy and cultural or tribal history.
Other common forms of persecution include those based on gender, sexual orientation, class or social status, and even artistic preferences. Due to the nature of such attitudes, those who persecute others need not be in a position of real power, but may simply use larger numbers or a mob mentality to drive others to hatred and violence. From a legal point of view, persecution can often become a criminal act and, if perpetrated through hate speech or incitement, can be considered a domestic crime, a crime against humanity and potentially a war crime. There is also a psychological disorder often referred to as a “persecution complex” in which a person believes they are being persecuted, often by hallucinatory figures or delusional entities.
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