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Lithos

(26,471 posts)
1. Great question...
Thu Feb 25, 2021, 01:13 AM
Feb 2021

if you're talking about the obviously anti-gay legal discriminations resulting from LGBTQ identity not being a protected class - then I agree that represents the state of America today.

Do have to ask a more cynical question though which I realize is taking this a bit off tangent.

Even with official class protections - does that suffice? Are there not ways protected classes are still "legally" discriminated against, just that it's not spelled out as such? Discrimination from willful neglect and from ignorance is still discrimination. Discrimination built up by a death from a thousand cuts? Many examples - but for the lack of diversity of training models for Artificial Intelligence creates a form of discrimination or hardships; the creation of voting restrictions which impact more groups than another, etc. One example I frequently see affecting LGTBQ is the lack of support in schools for LGTBQ youth.

On Edit: - How is the above fixed?



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