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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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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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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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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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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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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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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