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Re:Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge by thaumasiotes on Friday February 16, 2018 @05:51PM (#16397271)
For a "clarification", that's a pretty stunning error.

Sex is not a class in the first place. Sex is a protected attribute or classification. Women are a protected class, and so, notionally, are men.

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Re:Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday February 16, 2018 @09:15PM (#16398487)
Then I guess the lawyer who taught my Employment Law Course didn't have a clue what she was talking about.

https://content.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ibb0a38daef0511e28...

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Re:Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge by thaumasiotes on Friday February 16, 2018 @10:22PM (#16398758)
You can see just by that link that the link itself is confused. It begins:

> [A Protected Class is] A group of people with a common characteristic who are legally protected from employment discrimination on the basis of that characteristic.

You'll immediately notice that "women" are a group of people with a common characteristic (sex) who are legally protected etc etc. "Sex", despite being listed further down the page as a "protected class", does not meet the definition, as sex is not a group of people. Rather, it is a characteristic which federal law protects.

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