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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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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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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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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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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Replying to @eigenrobot
I don't understand how this scene demonstrates thathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfZBZBVlFcY …
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not the opening the job interview
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