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From: notgenx32@gmail.com
On 3/18/2021 4:28 PM, P+Barker wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 07:06:56 -0700, Bill Flett
> wrote:
>
>> On 3/18/2021 4:46 AM, P+Barker wrote:
>>> Bill Flett wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
iscrimination, 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.
>>>
>>> What a bunch of hogwash.
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>>> I have an easy solution.
>>>
>>> Have a rotating ID issuing office
>>
>> No. There will be permanent ID issuing offices, and lots of them. In poor
>> neighborhoods, there will be more of them. They will have generous hours
—
>> 7:00am to 7:00pm, no closure for lunch. If anyone has difficulty supplying
the
>> required documentation to get the ID, the staff in the office will help
them try
>> to get it at no extra cost.
>
> No one wants to open offices in the hood.
Not talking about that.
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