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Human rights commissions originally were set up in the 1960s and ’70s to provide quick, cheap justice for Jews, women, blacks — and, later, gays — who were victims of bald-faced prejudice, often at the hands of employers and landlords who were outright bigots. The intentions behind the HRC scheme were unimpeachable: In the days when hotels turned away visible minorities, gay-bashing was common, and women weren’t considered for good jobs, human rights commissions really did serve a needed purpose.