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How can a government contract have a "discrimination" clause in it?

What next? How about a MAGA state saying "You have to acknowledge that Trump won the 2020 elections to work with us"?

Wow, the comments in here are really opening my eyes to what HN actually is instead of what I thought it was.

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HN has always had a mix of people. There’s a distinct portion of people on here who trend toward center right and libertarian ideals. There’s a smaller but still solid segment who are more leftists who also generally oppose big authority in certain ways (some Govt stuff, big tech), but otherwise don’t have much overlap with the former group. I’m of the latter group, but it’s plain HN and even Slashdot in the old days, always had these sort of divides.

You’ll never find a place that won’t have these sort of divides unless you specifically go to a site for only your political views.

This man is the one who is discriminating, he has freedom to do so but he does not have freedom from the consequences. He can't do business with the government, just as I (in theory) could legally refuse to do business with him on the same basis.

> he can't do business with the government, just as I (in theory) could legally refuse to do business with him on the same basis

You're not constrained by the First Amendment. Texas is.

You personally have that right. The state of Texas must provide contracts with no bias and only considering the quality of work the contractor would provide.

The state is not allowed to discriminate based on arbitrary attributes of that contractor.

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