• auzy@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    She could argue it’s self defence technically. As we all know what shitfuckery advertising like that leads to…

    She’s probably been delivering the mail for decades. Just not some bigoted advertising.

    It’s not my job to pull down Nazi sticker crap or clean it up, but I do.

    Yes management should reject that delivery, but she also has a right not to put her family in harm’s way.

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      4 hours ago

      So should a bigoted transphobe mail carrier be allowed to deny mail from a source depicting trans rights as a positive thing?

      Does this work both ways?

      Or is it only that the law should be broken because you disagree with it. You don’t get to cherry pick federal laws bud. That’s not how it works.

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        2 hours ago

        What? The flyers promote the discrimination and criminalisation of a memory group, versus your example which would be promoting minority rights.
        Those aren’t comparable.

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          They’re 100% comparable when you understand how federal law works. Learn it- then come back here and we can discuss whether or not a mail carrier has the right to decide what mail you get.

          Until then, I don’t think you can carry your side in this discussion.

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            27 minutes ago

            Well I’m not too well versed on Canadian federal laws as I’m a bit further south. So I looked into discrimination laws in New Brunswick, Canada and found this Human Rights Act

            Some parts that could be relevant;

            The New Brunswick Human Rights Act is the provincial law that prohibits discrimination and harassment based on 16 protected grounds of discrimination.

            The Act prohibits discrimination in the following five areas under the provincial jurisdiction: Employment (includes job ads and interviews, working conditions, and dismissals); Housing (e.g. rent and sale of property); Accommodations, services, and facilities (e.g. hotels, schools, restaurants, government services, libraries, stores, etc.); Publicity; and, Professional, business or trade associations (e.g. Nurses Association of New Brunswick, New Brunswick Teachers’ Association, New Brunswick College of Physicians, etc.).

            Publicity includes any publications, displays, notices, signs, symbols, emblems that show discrimination or an intention to discriminate against any person or class of persons

            Not a lawyer or expert, but that seems to apply at least superficially. Maybe a bit of a stretch. But it helps that the fliers were full of factually wrong and hateful anti-trans myths. And freedom of speech has limits, even federally.

            ETA: However, mail carriers are probably exclusively covered by federal law, and the federal Canadian Human Rights Act only seems to specify discrimination and not harassment. I do think it’s too much of a stretch to say this would be covered by any federal laws

            Final edit: ok I read more. This is the closest thing I could find from the federal Human Rights Act

            12 It is a discriminatory practice to publish or display before the public or to cause to be published or displayed before the public any notice, sign, symbol, emblem or other representation that (a) expresses or implies discrimination or an intention to discriminate, or (b) incites or is calculated to incite others to discriminate

            If I am misinterpreting it, please let me know. I think it could be used as an argument tho

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              37 minutes ago

              Now look up wether or not mail carriers get to decide what mail you get-