As of 2022, the only protected status one is allowed to discriminate against without new acronyms or hashtags or any uproar is age. We tend to hire people we wa

As of 2022, the only protected status one is allowed to discriminate against without new acronyms or hashtags or any uproar is age. We tend to hire people we want to befriend, which means people similar to us, which leads to a lot of this discrimination. See: "culture fit".