NYC makes it illegal to discriminate against weight & height

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27 May 2023, 1:04 pm

New York City makes it illegal to discriminate against weight and height

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-ban ... 8c03c4c3ca

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed legislation Friday that will ban discrimination based on body size by adding weight and height to the list of protected categories such as race, sex and religion.

“We all deserve the same access to employment, housing and public accommodation, regardless of our appearance, and it shouldn’t matter how tall you are or how much you weigh,” said the mayor, who joined other elected officials as well as fat-acceptance advocates at a City Hall bill-signing ceremony...

I don't know. Given that most of us are fat

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-pr ... %20percent).

not discriminating against the majority, seems a bit superfluous.

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27 May 2023, 1:11 pm

So it'd be legal to play Gillette's "Short Dick Man" on the radio, but not the "clean" "Short, Short Man"? Then again, the former could also be interpreted as an attack on a short detective.

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27 May 2023, 1:28 pm

Nekomonster wrote:

So it'd be legal to play Gillette's "Short Dick Man" on the radio, but not the "clean" "Short, Short Man"? Then again, the former could also be interpreted as an attack on a short detective.

I think that you meant it the other way around.

"Short Dick Man" is obviously not about stature whereas "Short Short Man" could be taken on its face to be about being vertically impaired (rather than horizontally impaired).
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Local police departments dont hire people under some height limit. So wouldnt that create problems?

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27 May 2023, 2:08 pm

I think that's a smart move on the part of New York City. I hope that other cities around the world follow their lead.

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27 May 2023, 3:06 pm

Actually, employers get around anti-discrimination laws very easily. All that they have to do is say that the reason for a decision was not related to a person's protected class, however flimsy the reason. The burden of proof falls on the person discriminated against. Very difficult to do.

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