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Political views are the ultimate primitive protected class in a democracy. Otherwise, it's not a democracy.
by beerandt 5y ago
Political views are the ultimate primitive protected class in a democracy.
Otherwise, it's not a democracy.
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- dragonwriter 5y ago> Political views are the ultimate primitive protected class in a democracy. For...what? While there is an overlap in “protected classes” for different areas of law, they are still different for important reasons. For discrimination by government, viewpoint is necessarily protected to have a meaningful democracy. OTOH, for the same reason, for many kinds of private discrimination, political viewpoint is an anti-protected class; that is, private discrimination is not only not prohibited, but itself an essential liberty. In the US, for the federal government, both of these are part of 1st Amendment protections of speech, press, and association.