Oh yeah, that would be awful. Lets say everyone is a member of the protected class "sex", so discrimination could be absolutely forbidden since everyone who has a sex is completely protected from discrimination. Such a law would be totalitarian, and essentially turn the private sector into a diverse assortment of public utilities. I hate to think what else the people behind it have in store.
How exactly are you managing to leap to this conclusion?
You can still hire people who only have a particular level of education or certification or who can lift a certain amount of weight for example.
You just can't pre-emptively disqualify anyone on the basis of their protected class status.
Nobody is suggesting that hiring managers can't turn anyone down.
Please explain what anti-discrimination laws have to do with "totalitarianism"?