So, Ross, are you saying it's healthy for companies to give price breaks to people who belong to anti-gun-control lobby groups but not to people who belong to pro-gun-control lobby groups? That was a healthy situation? I think it was unhealthy, and that changing it is healthy.https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/968881317961240576 …
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Replying to @robertwrighter
I don't think the discounts airlines choose to offer are particularly morally important either way. But in context the airline moves can be read as moral statements about gun owners as a class, while Dick's move is focused on particular guns and particular buyers.
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Replying to @DouthatNYT @robertwrighter
You can argue it the other way: That you need to socially disfavor the NRA to make legislative change happen. I'm just skeptical that making weakly-attached NRA members feel like they're being unfairly targeted will ultimately have that effect.
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Replying to @DouthatNYT @robertwrighter
The theory that you have to isolate and crush conservatives with a united front of all nonpolitical institutions may work this time, or next time, or the time after that. But so far we have President Donald Trump.
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You haven't directly answered my question: Was the status quo ante--companies favoring customers of one ideology over another--healthy for America? Do you recommend, as an American, that companies do that? These are yes or no questions.
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Retail companies should be really careful about ideological segmentation of their markets. They almost always do it wrong because confirmation bias makes them overestimate what % of consumers share their values.
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