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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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Businesses can discriminate against their customers? Alright then... (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 18 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] 22 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] 4 points 1 year ago

Good point.

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

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