Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
by centimeter on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @06:08PM
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The actual dominating selection bias is that "discrimination laws" were an authoritarian progressive political strategy, so they align most closely with authoritarian progressive beliefs and interests.
Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
by kube-system on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @06:37PM
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So was social security and a ton of other laws, but that's pretty irrelevant in today's politics.
As far as politics today is concerned, I would sure hope that both conservatives and liberals both agree that is it wrong to deny service based on someone's membership in a protected class.
Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
by centimeter on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:52PM
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> As far as politics today is concerned, I would sure hope...
Of course, as a progressive (I'm guessing), you would hope the overton window stays firmly within the progressive comfort zone. This has little to do with the fact that progressive laws do, in fact, generally work in opposition to conservative (rightist and/or libertarian) politics, even if we can retroactively come up with some clean-sounding justification like "it's about human rights". It's not self-selection bias.
This can be mostly likely summed up as self-selection bias. Discrimination laws are not being applied unequally to people of differing political opinions. It is much more common that people's political identities are self-chosen based on their own personal identity and experiences.