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Belgium to Intervene in Cases Where Prostitutes Refuse Business Too Often
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoI can't quite parse this. Tyler Cowen is pro-legalisation of sex work, and pro-immigration in a traditional libertarian way as far as I'm aware (though his comment section seems to attract a conservative crowd that is often skeptical of both). He's linked to a weird culture war site that mostly tries to misrepresent the legislation, though he doesn't appear to be taking issue with their odd framing of it i.e. laws that passes in parliment with the support of sex work activists and their unions probably isn't that bad for sex workers, unless you object to the entire notion of sex work which is the position the twitter comments they cite take. And then, out of nowhere it would seem, he's added in the concept of it being about not wanting to serve immigrants. Which sounds like the kind of discussion you'd find on Twitter, where every plane crash is an excuse to claim that it's the fault of 'people we don't like' and the idea of 'people we don't like' having sex with (and/or attacking) 'our' women is a perenial click-bait winner. The other half of his comment section adds the obvious missing context, but what was Tyler trying to achieve here?