This is a good step forward but wait until Apple realizes that Indians discriminate on many other factors including but not limited to skin color, state of origin, region of origin (North vs South vs NorthEast), mother tongue, religion (Hindu vs Muslim), Political beliefs (Left vs Right).
Political belief should not be a protected class. It's an opinion- everything else you listed, you're born with/can't change that classification (don't want to get into the weirdness of the religion part, but nearly all religious preference can be predicted by geography).
Both religion and national identity are changeable, they are 'just opinions', but both are key historical examples of protected class.
You can say that both are predicted by geography, but must conflicts happen in situations where populations of different identities are mixed in one geography. Then you can say it can be predicted by parents' opinions, but that is true for many other opinions, including political ones.
In some sense, protection of changeable characteristics is more important than protections of non-changeable characteristics, because bullying based on changeable characteristics can be effective to pressure conversions of victims.
And it is question how political opinion is just an expression of deep personal characteristics that are not much changeable and perhaps even partially given by genetics.
A tautology I suppose, but, because you can't change them. You didn't choose it and it's immutable. Not fair to discriminate against someone for something they can't control. This is, of course, personal opinion of mine.
We do discriminate against things people can't control, like intelligence. If you have an IQ of 80, I can almost guarantee you will not be accepted to a college to become an architect, lawyer, or doctor.
But also, discriminating against things people can control is really just one party trying to apply soft power over another, and I am generally against it. You might be able to legally say you can't work at this company if you like to go bowling in your free time, but I don't think it would be a right thing to do.
I get why you shouldn't discriminate against things you can't change, but I am wondering why there shouldn't also be things you can't discriminate based on that you CAN change.
Religion is a good example of one... people can and do change religions, but we still shouldn't discriminate based on it. There are other examples as well of things that people can change that shouldn't be discriminated based on.
I agree completely, this is why I think the pro-gay "It's not a choice, I was born this way" argument is misguided. Even if being gay was 100% a lifestyle choice - there is still nothing wrong with it, and no one should give you any shit for it!
I think we should be able to discriminate based on religion. I personally don't see why this one opinion- and that's all religion is, an opinion- should be handled differently than any other opinion.
If someone thinks black people are innately inferior to other races, it's culturally acceptable for me to discriminate against them, but if their god tells them that black people are innately inferior to other races, I'm not? Heavily suspect in my opinion.
