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The OHRC said while caste is not a prescribed protected category, it is covered by international human rights law and hence, can be protected under the Ontario Human Rights Code.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Having to explicitly define every protected category in law seems ridiculous. Surely a description of what a protected category looks like would be more consistent and future proof.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If "don't be an asshole" worked, we wouldn't need most of the rest of the laws. Sadly it doesn't. I don't quite understand why.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because there is no consensus on what an "asshole" is.

"I'm not an asshole; I just tell it like it is." β€” some asshole somewhere every five minutes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah. You're absolutely right. But it's fun to pretend we could all be reasonable together.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They're created this way on purpose, to leave room for hating people in the future we might not know we hate yet. That's the type of "future proof" we're after, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Stupid rules are created because of stupid people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I'm not mistaken, there are general descriptions too, so I don't think the list is exclusive. I think it's a good idea to specify what categories you can so that in future human rights challenges, you don't have various interested groups trying to argue differing interpretations. Interpretations of vague language can vary and this can tend to lead us away from the spirit of an otherwise good law.