The law against discrimination in New Jersey prohibits discrimination for moral reasons, but it does it in a legal framework. It would be a poor law and very ineffective indeed if it permitted you to be harassed just because you were perceived to be part of a protected group but actually weren't.
If someone is harassing you, not even if they believe you're a member of the group but because they're trying to create the impression in the minds of others that you are, and this often comes up in the context of sexual orientation, for example, where someone is perceived to be gay or the harasser desires that others perceive the person to be gay, then they're harassed as if they were gay. The law against discrimination prohibits all perception harassment and all perception discrimination.
The other context in which it tends to come up a lot is in the perception of disability. If someone is not actually disabled but is perceived to be, or the harasser or the discriminator believes the person to have certain traits or qualities associated with someone possessing a disability, that's protected as well and it's prohibited as well.
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