Direct discrimination. This means treating someone less favourably than someone else because of a protected characteristic."We whites created slavery, Jim Crow segregation and contemporary racial discrimination over 400plus years now," Feagin said. Discrimination, the intended or accomplished differential treatment of persons or social groups for reasons of certain generalized traits. Discrimination is when you suffered adverse employment actions due to your membership of a protected class, such as race, gender, national origin, age, etc. There are multiple ways that discrimination can occur in employment. To end discrimination in housing, education, employment, and lending, nondiscrimination laws needed to be enacted and scrupulously enforced. Discrimination may take many different forms. For example, it may take place in a direct way. Discrimination means, at a very basic level, the act of separating out singular things or groups of things.