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Comment by JumpCrisscross

9 years ago

There are two discussions encapsulated in your comment. One, should political ideology be a protected class? And two, if so, how would you delineate protected "political ideology," something inherently more difficult to observe than ethnicity or sex, from unprotected views?

> How would you delineate 'protected ideology'?

The same way we deal with sexuality as a protected class, which is to say poorly but better than nothing.

> Should political ideology be a protected class?

I think it should, I wouldn't have said it was necessary in years past but it really seems like we're heading down a road where people are going to have to signal the 'right' political values in order to get hired.