I was reading these articles about AirBnB and I came up with a new term to describe the treatment that people on our side experience. We have had “protected classes” since the advent of so-called anti-discrimination laws which means the group of people who have a statutorily prescribed status that penalizes discrimination against them. Now we also have “persecuted classes” (VDARE.com, American Renaissance, et cetera) a class which was informally created by the unholy alliance of journalists and the Left (JournoFa) and refers to political dissidents who JournoFa demand must be proactively discriminated against. Businesses will actually be publicly shamed for not discriminating enough against persecuted classes.

These two polar opposites came into focus by reading these schizophrenic articles about AirBnB where JournoFa complain that the business is discriminating against former felons (currently a protected class in many states) and “sex workers” (soon to be a protected class if the Far Left gets their way) but also complains that the company is not doing enough to discriminate against “extremists” or “white nationalists.”