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22758, RE: Simpler than that
Posted by spirit, Thu Aug-10-00 10:38 AM
Current discrimination law does not protect "non-purple people" from discrimination, as a group. If a white male made a claim that he was a non-purple person who was discriminated against, his claim would thus fail. Discrimination law is based on a statutory and/or common law recognition
of a group's existence. That's what I've been trying to explain to you all along.

If race "doesn't exist", modern discrimination law couldn't protect anyone against racial discrimination, because "racial minorities" couldn't claim membership in any recognized protected group.

Breaking protected groups down into ethnicities would be highly problematic, as there would be no relief from those discriminated against by believers in old racial ideology. This is the problem in eual protection cases now under the current Supreme Court...they are "colorblind" in a world where color still matters very much.

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