[Dilbert San Diego]

Do protected classes come from civil rights laws which banned discrimination?

I know people use that term all the time, and refer to minority groups, homosexuals, and others, as protected classes.

But if we want to be truly equal, why are there protected classes in the place? That’s what I don’t know as to where that concept came from.

[hanamizu]

“Do protected classes come from civil rights laws which banned discrimination?”

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Not a lawyer, but I believe they do. What’s interesting is how the ‘protected classes’ increase due to executive and judicial actions. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 would have never passed Congress had it been known that it would cover the alphabet people.

Heterosexual white men are perhaps the only unprotected class.