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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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)
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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 …
comment from Alex, I think the first counterpoint is a pretty good onehttps://twitter.com/AlexGodofsky/status/1276696122350866432?s=19 …
I do think this is the most compelling counter to this thread's idea. Hm. There's a synthesis but I want to play vidya, I leave it as an exercise for the reader
oh also, I love this: @nicholatian gives us another case study, from Indonesia
https://twitter.com/nicholatian/status/1276692329282310149?s=19 …
adding another to the college control stack as usual I have nothing to say about the object level issue and only note the mechanism for government exercising controlhttps://twitter.com/AbigailShrier/status/1352121732723666946?s=19 …
always gratifying when @bryan_caplan turns out to have the same view of the world that i do
h/t @nebulousfocushttps://twitter.com/bryan_caplan/status/1400183634817081350 …
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