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lotharbot on Oct 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Shame on Y Combinator

> "Many of the people who were fired, blacklisted, or persecuted were only suspected communists"

would it have been OK to fire, blacklist, or persecute them if they had been actual communists, then?

smt88 on Oct 19, 2016 [–]

It would have been OK with me to fire (and only fire) them if they were actual communists. Political beliefs are not a protected class in the United States.

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