; (B) undermines or inherently conflicts with an outcome or objective that such employee or contractor ordinarily aims to achieve in their official employment or contractual capacity, and achieving such an outcome or objective is a reasonably central component of such employee or contractor’s typical responsibilities; (C) is undertaken by an employee or contractor who routinely conducts work on behalf of a domestic entity whose principal and overriding purpose is advocating for or otherwise furthering outcomes or objectives of a designated foreign government or entity (including a domestic entity registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938), which are fundamentally opposed to a principal desired outcome or objective of the activity; (D) is undertaken with the intent to, or the reasonably foreseeable effect of, denigrating a person or class of persons on the basis of any protected characteristic which is subject to any employment protections enforceable by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or an analogous state or territorial agency of any state or territory in the United States; or (E) the average person applying contemporary community standards of the United States would determine to be, taken as a whole, patently obscene and lacking in serious political, literary, artistic, or scientific value. (2) Protected action The term protected action means— (A) any speech, conduct, or other advocacy related to a designated foreign government or entity’s actual, historic, or potential current or future gross violation of internationally recognized human rights (as such term is defined in section 502B(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2304(d) )), or such government or entity’s facilitation or support of, or activities related to, such a violation