<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prepend</author><text>Not law school grad here but my understanding of protected classes - sex, age, race, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status - is that it’s that particular characteristic, not the values of those classes.&lt;p&gt;I can’t fire someone for being male or female. It’s not ok to fire someone for being male, or white. It’s not like only some religions are protected, while others aren’t.&lt;p&gt;You may want to check into a rebate on that law school tuition.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RappingBoomer</author><text>law school grad here--generic white males are not afforded the same protections as protected classes</text></item><item><author>yieldcrv</author><text>&amp;gt;  Employees who have historically been entrenched in the majority are also entitled to protection under laws that were intended to assure equal treatment for women and racial minorities.&lt;p&gt;To me this is obvious. A plain reading of EOCC employment discrimination regulations make this obvious.&lt;p&gt;The mere fact that this is deemed as &amp;quot;novel&amp;quot; or newsworthy or intriguing is a poor reflection of society itself. Fortunately the judges all understand it, even if this diverges so heavily from the general population (including employer&amp;#x27;s) understanding of race and sex inclusion&amp;#x2F;discrimination.&lt;p&gt;But it kind of reminds me of academia, when all the students get it wrong, then maybe its the teacher! Leaving everyone to their own devices to implement an abstract concept of DEI and Affirmative Action keeps leading to the same implementation flaws and polarizing resentment over and over and over again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>&apos;Old white guy&apos; can move forward with workplace bias suit against AT&amp;T</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/old-white-guy-can-move-forward-with-workplace-bias-suit-against-att-2022-06-07/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>preordained</author><text>What the hell is a &amp;quot;generic&amp;quot; white male? Imagine if this was used for other groups...it&amp;#x27;s messed up</text><parent_chain><item><author>RappingBoomer</author><text>law school grad here--generic white males are not afforded the same protections as protected classes</text></item><item><author>yieldcrv</author><text>&amp;gt;  Employees who have historically been entrenched in the majority are also entitled to protection under laws that were intended to assure equal treatment for women and racial minorities.&lt;p&gt;To me this is obvious. A plain reading of EOCC employment discrimination regulations make this obvious.&lt;p&gt;The mere fact that this is deemed as &amp;quot;novel&amp;quot; or newsworthy or intriguing is a poor reflection of society itself. Fortunately the judges all understand it, even if this diverges so heavily from the general population (including employer&amp;#x27;s) understanding of race and sex inclusion&amp;#x2F;discrimination.&lt;p&gt;But it kind of reminds me of academia, when all the students get it wrong, then maybe its the teacher! Leaving everyone to their own devices to implement an abstract concept of DEI and Affirmative Action keeps leading to the same implementation flaws and polarizing resentment over and over and over again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>&apos;Old white guy&apos; can move forward with workplace bias suit against AT&amp;T</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/old-white-guy-can-move-forward-with-workplace-bias-suit-against-att-2022-06-07/</url></story>