Re:Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal in 2008 for Refusing to Censo...
by k_sh on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:03PM
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Race, being an immutable characteristic of a human being, is quite different from restrictions on the nature of created content.
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Re:Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal in 2008 for Refusing to Censo...
by andrewfong on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:08PM
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What about religion? Religion is, strictly speaking, mutable. But, for me at least, saying "no Muslims" or "no Sikhs" is the same level of badness as saying "no blacks".
Re:Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal in 2008 for Refusing to Censo...
by k_sh on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:33PM
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Religion is a tricky one.... It is mutable, but most people (a) don't change their religion in their lifetime and (b) use religion as a proxy signal for social identity, including many things that aren't mutable.
In practice: I'd take the bet that a white person of Muslim faith could get around a "no Muslims" rule most of the time. "No Muslims", then, can be a proxy for "no middle-Eastern looking folks".