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   From: notgenx32@gmail.com   
      
   On 3/17/2021 3:06 PM, Just Wondering wrote:   
   > On 3/17/2021 1:24 PM, Bill Flett wrote:   
   >   
   >> It isn't.  The *real* rationale behind voter ID laws, as opposed to the   
   fake   
   >> (smokescreen) reason, is transparently racist.   
   >   
   > (sarcastically)  Because only whites want voter ID laws, and   
   > blacks are the only race who can't obey them.   
      
   This is a straw man, and in fact, is indicative of your racism.  No one, but   
   you, has said or suggested that blacks are innately incapable of following the   
   law.  The issue is that it is logistically harder for poor people to get the   
   ID,   
   and poor people are disproportionately black.  The overrepresentation of blacks   
   among poor people is something Republiscum elections strategists know, and they   
   craft policy around it.   
      
   Poor people have lower mobility than higher income people.  They also tend not   
   to have the legal documents required in order to apply for the ID.  Blacks are   
   disproportionately represented among poor people due in significant measure to   
   past discrimination by people like Hansen and Hartung.  As a result, blacks on   
   average have a harder time getting the ID — not due to any innate defects   
   among   
   blacks, as Hansen suggests (and believes), but because of their circumstances,   
   a   
   good part of which are cause by Hansen and Hartung.   
      
   As if that isn't bad enough, Hansen and Hartung then *increase* the height of   
   the hurdle by purposely locating the offices that issue the ID far from black   
   population center, and by severely limiting their hours.  All of this is by   
   design, knowing that it will tend to reduce the number of black voters.  Blacks   
   tend to vote Democratic.  Hansen and Hartung know this, and they want to reduce   
   black voting.  Hence the creation of hurdles to voting that disproportionately   
   affect blacks, thanks to Hansen's and Hartung's historical discrimination, and   
   which they then enhance by fucking around with the state ID issuance offices.   
      
   Hansen and Hartung know all this.  When Hansen suggests that it is the   
   opponents   
   of voter ID who are the racists, he is being disingenuous and cynical.  He's   
   claiming they believe something about blacks' innate abilities that the   
   opponents do not believe.  Instead, it is Hansen and Hartung who believe that   
   blacks are innately incapable of doing things that whites on average can do.   
   What Hansen and Hartung are doing is attempting to project their own racism   
   onto   
   their opponents.  It fails.   
      
   > To say voter ID laws are racist is to say that some races   
   > are less able than others to conform their conduct to the   
   > law.  THAT's real racism.   
      
   No, that's your straw man.  No one talked about innate ability to conform to   
   the   
   law — no one but you, that is.  The issue is not innate ability, Hansen.  The   
   issue is circumstance:  circumstance that you created and then made worse.   
      
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