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It's not a strawman, it's a hypothetical. Depending on your culture, you might struggle to imagine a manager firing a black employee for their skin colour. We s
by snet0 5y ago
It's not a strawman, it's a hypothetical. Depending on your culture, you might struggle to imagine a manager firing a black employee for their skin colour. We still have legal protections for this, though, and I'm doubtful there's much disagreement about them.
Imagine some universe where a manager fires an employee purely for their attractiveness. Is that acceptable? Like you mentioned, maybe there are justifiable cases, but should these cases not require this to be stipulated somewhere in contract?
- MattGaiser 5y agoAlso, they are hard to separate concepts in practice. You get stuff like this: https://www.colorlines.com/articles/pseudoscience-black-women-are-less-attractive https://www.colorlines.com/articles/pseudoscience-black-wome... https://www.npr.org/2018/01/09/575352051/least-desirable-how-racial-discrimination-plays-out-in-online-dating https://www.npr.org/2018/01/09/575352051/least-desirable-how... You could easily end up with a claim/thought process like this: "They weren't fired because they are black. It was because they were ugly. And they were ugly because they are black. " A bit tangental, but an interesting article nonetheless: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/08/dark-skinned-black-girls-dont-get-married https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/08/dark-sk...