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A comment on TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor. Parent comment

Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by gbear605 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:30PM (#22611807)
How about “I’m not allowed to use attractiveness to determine if you can come into my nightclub”
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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by yakshaving_jgt on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @11:19PM (#22613284)
Good luck ever enforcing that.
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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by whoisjuan on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @08:10PM (#22612152)
Because the above counter-argument is that you only belong to this class when people put you in it.
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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by leereeves on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @08:21PM (#22612255)
People aren't in or out of a protected class. Protections for race, sex, orientation, etc apply to everyone, even straight white men. Protections for religion even apply to atheists.

The laws prohibit certain behaviors, like excluding people from nightclubs on the basis of skin color. They could easily also prohibit excluding people from nightclubs on other appearance criteria.

Of course no one can control thoughts, and some people will still feel and think hateful things, but that's true for every protected class.

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