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by Manuel_D 16 days ago
You seem to be misinformed about what protected class means: Race, gender, religion (including absence of religion), are all protected classes. It is irrelevant which race, gender, etc. is being favored or disfavored. The use of race as a factor in employment, in any way, is prohibited. It is not legal to discriminate against men any more than it is legal to discriminate against women. It is not legal to discriminate against whites and Asians any more than it is legal to discriminate against Black and Latin people. The idea that civil rights laws oly prohibit discrimination against some races and some genders while permitting discrimination against others is a very common piece of misinformation espoused by proponents of DEI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group

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But also, preferential treatment for underserved communities is legal and does not mean anyone is being discriminated against. I.e., "reverse discrimination" is bullshit. Sorry.
Repeating this doesn't make it true. Use of protected class as a factor in employment is illegal, regardless of which race or gender is being favored or disfavored. You're right, "reverse discrimination" is bullshit: it's just discrimination, regardless of who is being discriminated against. This was argued all the way up to the Supreme Court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_v._Ohio_Department_of_You...

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to both the majority and the minority equally. And the Supreme Court's unanimous opinion was written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson no less! You're just wrong on the facts here.