this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Malicious Compliance

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People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request. For now, this includes text posts, images, videos and links. Please ensure that the “malicious compliance” aspect is apparent - if you’re making a text post, be sure to explain this part; if it’s an image/video/link, use the “Body” field to elaborate.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's a contradiction here. The Supreme Court ruled that Speech can't be compelled, not that you could bar certain people from a business. You could decline to decorate a cake with "MAGA", but not decline to sell a cake to a Republican, for example. What those signs are promoting is still illegal.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Forgive me, but I don't believe political affiliation is a protected class--protected classes are the only things people can't discriminate based on. So like, race, sex, religion are protected, but democrat/republican/green party aren't protected. Businesses can legally discriminate against non-protected classes. It's just usually a bad business strategy to turn customers away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So you can simply refuse service in any business by refusing to speak to them.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Personally I think you should be able to decline any service to anyone for any reason. Anything less than that is government compelled work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

and then we're back to segregation

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That just allows people to be overtly bigoted and crated an apartheid society. And we did have this: "no blacks", "no Irish"...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Well, that is what conservatives consider to be the peak of America.

"Make America Great Again" - "great" is when America was apartheid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

and then we're back to segregation

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That makes no sense. You think it's okay to deny service based on race?