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>many people don't have the required IQ to participate in their own governance, as such maybe it's time to prevent them from doing so Subjugate: to make someon
by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>many people don't have the required IQ to participate in their own governance, as such maybe it's time to prevent them from doing so
Subjugate: to make someone or something subordinate.
Does your statement not fit the definition? Forcing someone out of their inalienable rights because they don't pass an arbitrarily dictated exam is to make them subordinates or untermensch. Epistocracy was a common method used to prevent blacks from voting in the southern United States.
- rafiki6 10y agoYou made the incorrect assumption that voting is an inalienable right. By who's standard? We've lived most of our history without the right to vote and survival of the fittest was the way humanity and nature functioned (I.e. the strongest rule). And no, episitocracy wasn't used in the south. Blacks weren't considered human. That's not the same as episitocracy. Those are two very different issues. It's not quite episitocracy if the same standard isn't being applied to the entire population. In the south the literacy tests were being given ONLY to black people even though alot of the white people who were allowed to vote simply for being white probably wouldn't have passed those tests. http://www.wpr.org/georgetown-philosopher-right-vote-defect-democracy http://www.wpr.org/georgetown-philosopher-right-vote-defect-...
- wu-ikkyu 10y ago>It's not quite episitocracy if the same standard isn't being applied to the entire population. What about the people who get to determine what the test questions are? Are they not by default held at a higher standard than the rest of the population?