Tbh I think it is ~95% of the time a shortcut for "the government should not have the power to tell anyone what opinions to express, aside from government employees while speaking for the government - i.e. private entities can express themselves however they want."
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Replying to @dman4835 @HjalmarAstrom
I am including that in the "very strange thing to think in 2021". If a strict libertarian said that to me, I'd believe them. But anyone else, I wouldn't, because they can't possibly think that?
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To think that, you would have to believe that a private company like Amazon would be immune from any legal action if they, for example, posted signs throughout their warehouses with derogatory statements about women and minorities.
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Replying to @cmuratori @HjalmarAstrom
Well, you would not, because that is not public expression. As I said, hard to cram every angle into one tweet. Amazon is more than free to put up billboards saying the same, however.
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Replying to @cmuratori @HjalmarAstrom
Of course they are. Where did you get some contrary idea?
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Replying to @dman4835 @HjalmarAstrom
Pretty much the entire history of the EEOC? I mean you can read about companies being sanctioned for far less than that: https://www.eeoc.gov/initiatives/e-race/significant-eeoc-racecolor-casescovering-private-and-federal-sectors#customer …
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In at least one case, there were things as minor as _not_ featuring minorities in advertising materials. So while I can't think of a case where a company was brazen enough to advertise explicitly _against_ minorities, one assumes that has to at least be a more serious violation?
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Replying to @cmuratori @HjalmarAstrom
Take a closer look at those cases. You're talking about companies getting in trouble for basing hiring and job placement decisions based on race. The advertising was either an element or evidence of broader discriminatory employment practices...
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That is very different from simply expressing an offensive idea. These companies were not getting dragged in front of a judge for having horrible opinions.
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Well I mean I don't disagree, I just don't know where to look for a more on-point case because you don't really have companies doing that sort of thing these days in the first place?
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Certainly there hasn't been any Supreme Court cases in recent memory where anything like this has happened.
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