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Originally Posted by ResAlien
Gotcha. Just a coincidence the policies target minorities. If things were different then they'd totally have the same laws. I like that logic.
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They would! If there was an equally effective way to prevent WHITE democrats from voting, they'd pursue it with equal zeal. The effect on minorities is essentially collateral damage. For example, if there was a law that could be pushed through that would somehow make it much harder for college professors to vote, I haven't the slightest doubt that they'd go for it.
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
How is purposefully preventing racial minorities from voting not racist?
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If it's not motivated by racist views. Intentions matter - it's the entirety of the information we have about how someone will act next. From this policy, we can infer that the GOP is willing to bend the rules in an un-democratic fashion to cynically increase their chances of winning an election, and that they'll be callously unconcerned with whether or not this has a disproportionate impact on the rights of one ethnic group or another. We can't, in my view, conclude that they hate blacks and hispanics. Blacks and hispanics just happen to be largely democratic voters, and it's this latter quality that is being targeted.
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I don't see why you're trying to jump through all these hoops.
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Because I have a strong opposition to the over-extension I see happening on my own side of the political spectrum for the use of terms like "racist". People just call anything they don't like racist or bigoted or homophobic these days. Leveling that accusation is for many people all that's necessary; then we don't have to talk about why these guys are
actually wrong to propose the measures they're proposing. In fact, there are plenty of principled reasons to oppose GOP policies.