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> a protected class I hate this effing phrase. I mean, I know that it's never been true that we don't have clearly-stratified "classes" of humanity in American
by Cyberdog 9y ago
> a protected class
I hate this effing phrase. I mean, I know that it's never been true that we don't have clearly-stratified "classes" of humanity in American society no matter what the founding fathers were aiming for, but this phrase just makes it all the more apparent.
So I guess I shouldn't hate it after all. At least it's honest.
Some animals are more equal than others.
- cjensen 9y agoYou are conflating class, as in a stratified privilege hierarchy within a society, with the more usual use "a group of items with a thing in common." For example, in a class-action lawsuit, the "class" means "people who claim to have been wronged in the same way by the defendant." A "protected class" in US Law is a group of people you may not discriminate against based upon the "thing they have in common." For example, you if a job requires lifting a 50lb object, you may not eliminate an prospective employee for simply being female. But you may eliminate a prospective employee for being unable to lift a 50lb object.