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Things like losing a job, being excluded from community organizations, or just generally shunned by society.

While things like gender, sex, race, and religion are often protected; things like political views, worldview, and way of life generally are not.




That just sounds like normal consequences. I don't think it is reasonable to think that the government is going to protect you from the private-actor consequences of your "political views, worldview, and way of life".

To do so would require the government to become an arbiter of those things, which would be antithetical to the protection of individual rights such as freedom of speech, freedom of association, and in general individual liberty.




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