In message Roland Perry
was claimed to have wrote:

In message , at 00:34:24 on
Tue, 11 Jan 2011, DevilsPGD
remarked:

Age discrimination prevents one from requiring experience in a field?

No, it potentially prevents some advertisements from asking for it.

eg "Ten years post-gradudate experience in $foo" will discriminate
against most people under 31/32 years old.

But again, since when is requiring an applicant to be qualified
considered discrimination?

If you're hiring a bike messenger you're going to discriminate against
the blind. If you're hiring a bus driver you're going to discriminate
against those prone to seizures. If you're hiring a model for
children's clothing you're going to discriminate against adults. If
you're hiring a welder you're discriminating against those who don't
know how to weld.

Look, I get that actual discrimination is a problem, but at some point
you have to draw the line, otherwise Hooters is going to have to hire
me, and believe me when I tell you that *nobody* wants to see that!