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No, it's not a slippery slope. The fundamental concept that our society needs to recover from the corporatist memory hole is that there are drastic differences

No, it's not a slippery slope. The fundamental concept that our society needs to recover from the corporatist memory hole is that there are drastic differences between various sizes and legal structures of businesses. It's been overwritten by this simplistic distinction of "government xor business", when in reality things like large corporations are closer in functioning and effects to government than they are to individuals. If this particular web design business is a few people and they are all individually refusing to do a certain job, then I'd say this is pretty sensible decision. Whereas if this is a business with many employees (some who likely would do the job), then it would have been sensible to prevent the owners/managers from imposing their personal whims onto the whole group.

bell-cot 3y ago
(I get the sense that you skimmed my response too quickly to notice the second word.)
- mindslight 3y ago
  Half that. Half because referencing that other people think it's a slippery slope (even though you seemingly disagree), is also helping to propagate the fallacy of ignoring quantitative differences. When I said "our society" needs to recover it, I mean the legal system as well. As things stand, I can imagine Walmart in court a decade from now arguing that their desire to discriminate is really just a manifestation of the Waltons' individual liberty. Concretely, Citizens United was straight up wrong - a business entity formed by government charter is decidedly not the same as an unincorporated group of people, nor does it preclude the individuals comprising that business from exercising their rights individually apart from that entity. Yet here we are.
  - bell-cot 3y ago
    (Ah. Good thing that I didn't reference Flat Earthers, folks who believe Elvis is still alive, or the army of 8-legged pink polar bears who secretly operate Bernie Sanders' network of brain control space laser satellites, eh?)

bell-cot 3y ago

(I get the sense that you skimmed my response too quickly to notice the second word.)

mindslight 3y ago
Half that. Half because referencing that other people think it's a slippery slope (even though you seemingly disagree), is also helping to propagate the fallacy of ignoring quantitative differences. When I said "our society" needs to recover it, I mean the legal system as well. As things stand, I can imagine Walmart in court a decade from now arguing that their desire to discriminate is really just a manifestation of the Waltons' individual liberty. Concretely, Citizens United was straight up wrong - a business entity formed by government charter is decidedly not the same as an unincorporated group of people, nor does it preclude the individuals comprising that business from exercising their rights individually apart from that entity. Yet here we are.
- bell-cot 3y ago
  (Ah. Good thing that I didn't reference Flat Earthers, folks who believe Elvis is still alive, or the army of 8-legged pink polar bears who secretly operate Bernie Sanders' network of brain control space laser satellites, eh?)