# Ethical to screen out Trump supporters applying for a job?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 20, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethical-to-screen-out-trump-supporters-applying-for-a-job/928467 "2020-12-20T17:48:28Z")
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### Author: ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethical-to-screen-out-trump-supporters-applying-for-a-job/928467/219 "2020-12-23T20:51:10Z")

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> [@DemonTree](#):
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> If anyone was still wondering why polls undercounted support for Trump, this thread should clear it up.

If what you’re trying to suggest is that Trump supporters were “shy” with pollsters because they were afraid of having to face negative social consequences for their political opinions, [that seems to be an incorrect inference](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/us/politics/election-polls-trump-biden.html):

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> A [much-hyped theory](https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/11/02/trump-biden-voters-shy) that Trump supporters lie to pollsters appears to be [wrong or insignificant](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/02/shy-trump-voters-myth/). Polls did not underestimate his support more in liberal areas, where supporting Mr. Trump can be less socially acceptable, than in conservative areas.

So no, if polls undercounted Trump voters equally in pro-Trump and anti-Trump communities, that indicates that the undercounting was not due to Trump voters’ fear of being socially penalized for their views.

And I repeat: Denouncing malicious lies, incompetence, corruption, reality denial, delusion and bigotry does not constitute unfair political persecution or “intolerance” of the partisans who support malicious lying incompetent corrupt reality-denying delusional bigots.

Public discourse in a functioning democracy requires reasonable standards of factuality, transparency, honesty, fairness and critical thinking. We can’t just throw out those standards because we’re worried about hurting the feelings of supporters of Trumpism and other ideologies of malicious lies, incompetence, corruption, reality denial, delusion and bigotry.

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