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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by koheripbal on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:32PM (#31125037)
In many states, discrimination laws only apply to "protected classes" , which is strictly defined as specific lists of races/religions/lgbt..

If you are white male, you are often not protected by these laws.

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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by autarch on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:45PM (#31125283)
That's not what a protected class is. A protected class is something like "gender", "race", or "religion". It's not "women", "black people", or "Jews".

Discriminating based on gender or race, regardless of the gender or race in question, is illegal in most (probably all) states in the US.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group for a lot more details.

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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by moeris on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:45PM (#31125289)
Incorrect. The protections against employment discrimination by protected category are at the federal level, and are not tied to any specific race/religion/etc.

> Under the laws enforced by EEOC, it is illegal to discriminate against someone (applicant or employee) because of that person's race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices....

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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by pie_flavor on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:49PM (#31125346)
The relevant piece of legislation is not state-by-state but the Civil Rights Act of 1965. It defines protected classes, and it defines them as attributes that you cannot discriminate along, not groups; whites and blacks are (de jure, not necessarily de facto) equally protected by race's status as a protected class.
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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by Anechoic on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:53PM (#31125419)
In many states,[...] which is strictly defined as specific lists of races

Can you provide a specific example of a state where a protected class is limited to a specific "race" (as opposed to "race" in general)? There are states where minorities have a presumption of being discriminated against, but that's not the same thing.

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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by nullc on Friday April 22, 2022 @10:33PM (#31130845)
I trust you've been adequately corrected now by the sibling comments... but I'm genuinely curious how you came to believe this?
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