IF THEY BAN DISCRIMINATION AGAINST UGLY AND DUMB I FINALLY STAND A CHANCE IN SOCIETY
IF THEY BAN DISCRIMINATION AGAINST UGLY AND DUMB I FINALLY STAND A CHANCE IN SOCIETY
Boston Globe tackles attractiveness discrimination
by WALTER OLSON on SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
The article, by Ruth Graham in the Boston Globe “Ideas” section, takes more or less for granted that private parties’ liberties of free association and contract must be curtailed in order to right the “galloping injustice of ‘lookism’”:
Tentatively, experts are beginning to float possible solutions. Some have proposed legal remedies including designating unattractive people as a protected class, creating affirmative action programs for the homely, or compensating disfigured but otherwise healthy people in personal-injury courts. Others have suggested using technology to help fight the bias, through methods like blind interviews that take attraction out of job selection.
Boston Globe tackles attractiveness discrimination
by WALTER OLSON on SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
The article, by Ruth Graham in the Boston Globe “Ideas” section, takes more or less for granted that private parties’ liberties of free association and contract must be curtailed in order to right the “galloping injustice of ‘lookism’”:
Tentatively, experts are beginning to float possible solutions. Some have proposed legal remedies including designating unattractive people as a protected class, creating affirmative action programs for the homely, or compensating disfigured but otherwise healthy people in personal-injury courts. Others have suggested using technology to help fight the bias, through methods like blind interviews that take attraction out of job selection.
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