Protected groups are always exploited by the state. Under a veil of saving them.
Look to the working class for an historic exposition of this. Socialism exploited the working class to buy their votes to gain power. Power which it abused and did nothing to lift the working class anyway. Except create inauthentic epithets about equal rights.
Now, socialism cannot rely on the working class because they have seen through this obscene deception. Socialism now hates the working class and we can see this playing out as they call them fascists and racists for rightly bringing their justified plight into the spotlight.
Where is the hate speech law when socialism hates the working class? Why are the working class not also a protected group?
As expected, after having laid waste to the working class, socialism is moving on to new classes of people for exploitation - those with 'protected characteristics' - a deeply prejudiced thing in itself.
Socialism is saying people with these characteristics are unable or not smart enough to look after themselves so require the states support to make way.
And this horrid worldview once again sets these groups up for systemic exploitation. Largely this will be 'special' yet discriminatory treatment in exchange for their vote. A bribe.
These new protected groups are set out in the so called equal rights law and constitutions. This law is deeply unjust at a systemic level because its core objective is exploitation of protected groups. And worse still, a cynical discrimination against the unprotected groups, by implication.
The protected groups are mostly immigrants and also include include non white people, Islam, LGBTQ. We can see the effects already where leaders from these groups are exploiting their own kind at scale.
Case histories are blm, antifa, drug running, chattel slavery, sex workers, people smuggling, terrorism -which are really smaller gangs seeking their own power.
Who who would thought? Yet it is the law incredibly. Led by a cult of socialism.
Socialism may not be formally allied with these gangs, but it's leadership allows the gangs fully to proceed in spite of the law. At the highest levels.
So who is the perpetrator here: the 'drug dealer' or the ' drug addict'?
Would a better policy be to end the exploitation, at the root? Which party is calling for this and making an authentic stand in it?
It's hard to tell because all major parties today are socialistic, even the populist ones.