Say you refuse to hire or fire people from a predominantly black neighborhood — not because they're black, but based on the neighborhood — it's pretty accepted

Say you refuse to hire or fire people from a predominantly black neighborhood — not because they're black, but based on the neighborhood — it's pretty accepted these days that that's discriminatory and not allowed. But now liberals here are saying that refusing to hire or firing people from a predominantly Republican and/or Christian social network is different. It's the same. That position is hypocritical regardless of whether you think it should be legal.