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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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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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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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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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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comment from Alex, I think the first counterpoint is a pretty good onehttps://twitter.com/AlexGodofsky/status/1276696122350866432?s=19 …
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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
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oh also, I love this:
@nicholatian gives us another case study, from Indonesia https://twitter.com/nicholatian/status/1276692329282310149?s=19 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
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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 …
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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 …Show this thread
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