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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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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Fucking hate this. There is a local public meeting that starts with a prayer to the Evangelical God in Jesus’s name that I’m forced to attend because of my job. I hate being essentially compelled to participate in prayer. The SCOTUS precedent supporting this is 100000000% Christian bias.

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The SCOTUS precedent

Don't worry they don't believe in Precedent anymore. You just need to grease their wheels. I hear it's cheaper than you think.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It's relatively cheap for their masters, but they won't buck the leash that got them into their position

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

I would start invoicing people for your time until you get a legal cease and desist. Then sue them, just because they accepted responsibility.

Make it cost them money.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could counter with a Baha'i prayer. They are still an Abrahamic religion, and they have literally hundreds of prayers for practically every topic.

[–] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I don’t want any prayer. It’s coerced religion.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And you can't disrupt the meeting by interrupting the prayer until they kick you out, because then presumably your employer would fire you, I assume? 'Cause if not, you should definitely ruin their motherfucking christofascist bullshit.

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I'm going to be petty and start defacing my money.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Required ceremonial deism, even worse, yuck!

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The worst part is that for the people making these policies it really isn't religious, just a thing they can trick followers with.