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Employee Religious Exception Request Information System

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What’s next? A system that maintains records of their employee’ requests for time off?

But, in all seriousness, they need an entirely new system for this?

Considering how old and convoluted most government tech is and how compartmentalized government departments are I'm thinking it was just probably easier and cheaper than dealing with some legacy tech stack in a different department.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/01/11/2021-28...

The Großdeutsches Reich also started with lists of people.

While this is true, and should give people pause when considering the appropriateness of such a move, I don't think this is defacto the beginnings of an evil plot to "kill the religious people part 2". Another stepping stone along the way? Maybe. A move to further isolate and ostracize those who don't comply? Maybe.

One has to ask what the purpose of keeping such a list is. When considering that, I don't see many arguments with much weight to them.

I think the purpose of the list is much more mundane, and it's just another record they're keeping for compliance reasons. Employee's religious information is private information, so storage probably requires extra safeguards just like medical information does. Keeping it all in a central place means you don't have every federal agency trying to implement their own secure storage solution.

And Hitler wore khakis. What's your point?

Sure I'll spell It out for you.

I think the GP's point is there is a (1) legitimate, (2) historical reason to be skeptical of a government's motives when it wants to maintain lists of citizens who complain about it's polices. In the case cited, there was a casual connection between the list and tyrannical behavior. Not so with the khaki pants.

The relevant question here isn't "what do I think of vaccines?". It's "what do I think of government lists of dissenters?".

Anti-vaxxing isn't dissent, so weird to see Americans still politicize it. If you want to be a public health hazard I'm all for putting you on a list.

It's incredibly gross and tone deaf to compare that to the beginnings of the holocaust, especially coming from Americans who live in a country that still commits genocide whenever it wants. Whether that's forcibly sterilizing native americans or selling arms to Saudi Arabia so they can massacre Yemeni people.

What do I think of government lists of dissenters? They already exist and it's cute to act otherwise. We're talking about the country that assassinated Fred Hampton, of course the three letter agencies keep lists. That hasn't changed since the 70s besides getting worse.

> Anti-vaxxing isn't dissent

Being Jewish wasn't dissent either.

The fact there already are lists is of little comfort for people who don't want to get on a new list.

I think there's no point in trying to add religious beliefs to the basket of "valid personal reasons to refuse vaccination". Appealing to a specific interpretation of some ancient ideology must be considered equally relevant with political opinions, conspiracy theories or just simply saying "I don't like it". Society shouldn't give special treatment to people who dislike vaccination anyway, but claim Some Religion™ to certify it.

People don't seem to have a problem having their cars regularly inspected to ensure traffic safety on public roads. Why would it be so bad to improve public safety if non-essential services and events required some level of vaccination?

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