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by YiraldyGuber
956 days ago
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In the interim I wish they would stop beating around the bush and simply call it "not a straight White cis man". It's far fewer words with the exact same meaning as listing all the things that are 'protected', and has an air of honesty about it. |
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That's not what "protected class" means, in any of the contexts in which it is used (employment, public accommodation, housing, etc.)
To the extent it seems like it means that, that's only because, well, the historically privileged are more likely to be in a position to discriminate in favor of those like themselves.
In each of those contexts, race (not "being non-white") is a protected class; it is just as illegal to discriminate against White people in any of those contexts as it is to discriminate in favor of White people.
For each of the other descriptors which actually relates to a protected class, it works the same way where it does.
> It's far fewer words with the exact same meaning as listing all the things that are 'protected', and has an air of honesty about it.
It doesn't have the exact same meaning at all.