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Race and Sex are actually protected classes. Conservative however yes is totally not federally protected and neither is Socialist, or Liberal. Frankly I think that's weird, but the law is the law.

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But I'm not sure[1] that you can combine classes like this to create a new protected class. No one is making the argument that Google discriminates based on race or sex. If this is more of a harassment suit then a discrimination claim it seems to have more legs.

[1] I'm really not sure, I'm not kidding that I'm interested in how this plays out.

> No one is making the argument that Google discriminates based on race or sex.

The third cause of action of the filing is literally "workplace discrimination due to gender and/or race in violation of FEHA".

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