Discrimination can be described through seven discursive strategies

Evidence

According to van Dijk, what we call ‘discrimination’ can be described by pointing to several discursive resources and strategies (‘the 7 D’s of discrimination’): dominance, differentiation, distance, diffusion, diversion, depersonalization and daily discrimination — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 479

Categorization

• DEFINE: A mnemonic taxonomy of discursive moves, useful as a checklist when analyzing any in-group/out-group talk.
• XREF: The 7 D’s could serve as an analytical toolkit for close reading of political or media discourse about any marginalized group, not just Roma.