In most situations, people are pressured to conform into more generic groups to hide who you really are. We see in Kenji’s “The Pressure To Cover” that all of those testimonies were of people that stood out, but were held responsible for not their visible traits, but actions that revolve around what they believe in and who they are. “In such cases, the courts routinely distinguish between immutable and mutable traits, between being a member of a legally protected group and behavior associated with that group.”. Kenji says that courts do not make decisions based off of who the person is because if they did it would be unlawful. People are forced to conform to other ways of living because other people do not like the fact that they are different.
Interesting how the courts say not to make decisions based on who the person is, but in society that is what everyone person does to one another.
I really like how you narrowed in it on how people are “held responsible for not their visible traits, but actions that revolve around what they believe in and who they are”. The subtle difference here that Yoshino talked about confused me at first, but I like how you stated it here – it makes it easy to follow and that much more powerful because you get the message when you are reading it the first time through.