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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

      a thread on the role of law and the federal government in cultural change caveat emptor I have no idea what I am talking about and you should not believe me

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

      theoretically the text of the constitution prevents the federal government from punishing you for all sorts of things, at least when its not getting calvinballed by creative supreme court rulings however in practice there are plenty of ways for it to force interesting outcomes

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

      an older example of this is the drinking age in the united states theoretically speaking this is a matter reserved for the states, and in earlier years 18 was a common drinking age in practice, however, the federal government mandates a minimum age of 18 years how can this be?

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

      well, states can still set the drinking age to 18 or to whatever it likes and if they do this, the federal government will simply slash the money they send to states to pay for highways go ahead states! good luckhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_Act …

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

      this is common. the current federal system is partly an enormous redistribution mechanism youve seen the figures about how it takes money from relatively wealthy areas and redistributes it to poorer areas, but the net for any particular area doesnt matter for this thread

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

      rather, what matters is that it pulls money from everywhere and returns it everywhere if if, your well behaved otherwise it just takes the money of your citizens

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          now, this sort of thing along with rampant abuse of the commerce clause over the last hundred years let's it get around the fact that per 10A states are supposed to have superior latitude in most cases but this doesnt let them get at individuals, bc of the incorporation doctrine

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          so how do you wreck individuals? well there are Other Ways and i have my suspicions about how such a system operates, deliberately or not (i believe it was not intended in this case, but once the mechanism was identified--!)

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        4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          my hunch is that many such impositions operate through incentives working on private entities that do not _force_ them to do anything that, if done by governments would be unconstitutional; but effectively punish them if they do not do these things

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        5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          lets consider one such case, title ix in its aim, its pretty unobjectionable dont be a dick to ladies if your a school that cool and also pay attention to the mechanism: ". . . receiving Federal financial assistance."pic.twitter.com/4yABNouFzs

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        6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          So thats fine If you want to be a Discriminatory just give up your cash right? Thats what one college thought and the supreme court agreed but uh ohpic.twitter.com/IDhGqcCoH2

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        7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          Ok so basically if you want to have a school you need to comply with this Act because good luck running a uni without NIH/NHS grants and without students mortgaging their futures through the department of education Ok fine What are the details like? Surely is unobjectionable

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        8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          Well Ok Turns out regulators implemented a test that mandated equal participation for men and women in athletics Little cack-handed and invasive but not like Bad bad right Just killed off a bunch of less popular mens sportspic.twitter.com/Mt5qs8QoBJ

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        9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          But whats this? The government will always find a mechanism to make people do things if granted power to do so, by hook or crook i wonder what the bush 2 administration got up to!pic.twitter.com/Va8AiLrP05

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        10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          and of course the Obama administration had its own trick's to play in summary, a letter sent to universities from the Ed sec (1) stipulated that schools could be sued if they permitted a "hostile environment," and (2) set atrocious rules for university quasijudicial inquiriespic.twitter.com/yDuZyNVJgO

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        11. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          I don't mean to comment on the validity of the object level policies. Rather, I want to point out that using concepts of a "hostile environment" or simple regulatory policy the Federal government was able to force universities to do things that the government itself cannot

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        12. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          Some schools surely would have liked to comply with these regulations; others would not. Again, ignoring the base issues, I think one must agree that the government is using private actors to implement policies it could not itself (esp. w.r.t. anti-defendent judicial standards).

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        13. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          Title IX and Its Consequences have been done to death in commentary, although lately forgotten. Nevertheless it has I think played a tremendous role in the culture and structure of American higher education since its passage. *Good or bad*: the effect, was had.

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        14. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          Having considered this illustrative case (about which I knew in advance) im going to test a hypothesis about another branch of law and its role in the Cancel Crisis. I have no significant knowledge of this area so I will be reading a lot of wikipedia as I post

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        15. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          I am doing this exercise because I want to publicly test this out of sample prediction which seems like a fun way of keeping myself honest. Let's gooooooooooooo

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        16. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          Hypothesis: one of cancel culture's sine qua non, mechanistically, is anti-discrimination regulations in the workplace Test: wont be complete but look for implementation and case law around "hostile environments" and various Bad behaviors and see what's covered

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        17. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          Here's the opening salvo. Most cases listed here relate to sexual harassment, which doesn't surprise me for boring reasons. Note the mechanism: creating a liability for the employer if they fail to prevent a thing Rule of thumb: companies do not want to get suedpic.twitter.com/5jLofhPrCN

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        18. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          I do not know the history of HR departments but I would bet they came into being to comply with these laws. People have noted the shared culture of universities and HR. I think it might make sense to think of these as compliance offices. (Probably trite.)

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        19. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          The wiki is tragically short (for such a concept!) but this is interesting to me: law on this matter varies by jurisdiction (I assume a baseline federal law and additions made by locals?) Having panel data here would be very interesting. Free econometrics paper idea (must cite)

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        20. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          actually more generally if you write a paper and cite my tweet in the acknowledgements section you should absolutely let me know so I can lose my mind

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        21. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          Further wiki walking my suspicion is that Title VII of the civil rights act (1964) is the national standard I speculated about earlier heres the rundownpic.twitter.com/B6YpCPHLtM

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        22. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          there are narrow exceptions given for super specific cases that I imagine are things like casting a Soomerian actor to play Zuulpic.twitter.com/wBX0KYLdQ6

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        23. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          Note that religious preferences are not acceptable! The first scene of the Mary Tyler Moore Show preserves this transition in amber. It must have been a bewildering time for everyone.

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        24. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          Skipping around and getting a little bored Noted the disparate impact issue, which I'd forgotten about and which has led to this curious finding Also old people are less protected than other classes (if you curious where old people stood on the status hierarchy)pic.twitter.com/4Rsygmuv5G

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        25. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          anyway my hunch is the following. (I'd need to read case law to be sure and I'm not doing that) 1. Being known to be bigoted in some sense makes someone a walking liability 2. What a Reasonable Person (relevant standard) would find to be workplace harassment has been expanding

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        26. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          3. Large organizations fire people who develop a reputation as a bigot at the drop of a hat because of (1) if nothing else 4. (2) + (3) ===> you're done if you get the spotlight because firms dont know what the standard is and they don't want to be the test case

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        27. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          Basically I am speculating that the government is generating the Cancel Crisis through extremely boring administrative law that most Americans know nothing about. I am skeptical of any improvement because it is from the Civil Rights Act and no way is anyone touching that

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        28. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          contemplate this on the Tree of Woe

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        29. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          eigenrobot Retweeted Helen Andrews

          Upon reading the summary of this text I was 1. glad to be validated (kind of) 2. glad someone had gone through the bother of writing a book 3. glad to not buy it because it would only depress mehttps://twitter.com/herandrews/status/1276692215293763584?s=19 …

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          Helen AndrewsVerified account @herandrews
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          There is in fact a good book about this history, Frank Dobbin’s Inventing Equal Opportunity. Your hunch about the origins of HR is correct. https://twitter.com/herandrews/status/1219971510204616706 …
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        30. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          eigenrobot Retweeted Alex Godofsky

          comment from Alex, I think the first counterpoint is a pretty good onehttps://twitter.com/AlexGodofsky/status/1276696122350866432?s=19 …

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          Alex Godofsky @AlexGodofsky
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          There are problems with this story. First, firms very frequently do not fire people in response to internal complaints, and very commonly protect the subject of the complaints amd even retaliate against the complainer. Cancel culture appears to be much more effective.
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        31. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Jun 2020

          eigenrobot Retweeted Alex Godofsky

          epigrammatical!https://twitter.com/AlexGodofsky/status/1276698837739089922?s=19 …

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          Alex Godofsky @AlexGodofsky
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          Pilate freed Barabbas to appease the crowd, not Caesar.
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