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this kind of "journalism" makes me sad. In my view it's plainly an attempt to scratch an itch to validate our disappointment with the lack of empathy we see in
by lasky 6y ago
this kind of "journalism" makes me sad.
In my view it's plainly an attempt to scratch an itch to validate our disappointment with the lack of empathy we see in GOP politics; but instead of expressing that, the author stokes hate and "other-ness" and encourages people to interpret words people say as evidence for their visions of extreme separatist versions of the future... which further breads more lack of empathy in others, and the spiral continues.
Fear mongering and visions of separatism exist on both sides of the party lines.
- bitexploder 6y agoIt’s just, in the case of this pandemic, one side is actively getting people killed and the other is trying to avoid that. Somehow that became political.
- sudosysgen 6y agoI mean, it is. In a sense, almost everything is political.
- bitexploder 6y agoViruses don’t really kill based on party affiliation.
- sudosysgen 6y agoPolitics != Party affiliation. Which policies are instituted decide with a large effect who and how much are killed by the virus. Deciding the implementations of those policies, is in fact politics.
- redis_mlc 6y agoIf you're a Republican, realize that your party actively undermines democracy when it restricts voting or engages in gerrymandering. And there's no excuse for that whatsoever.
- bayareabadboy 6y agoRestricting voting isn't a moral evil lol. We can and should haggle about the voting age, but it's probably wise that we don't allow 2 year olds to vote. Also the Bill of rights is basically just a list of shit that we're not allowed to vote on anymore (Yes, I know that amendments can be repealed, but it's quite cumbersome). Idk, just this over-glorification of democracy is odd to me. Honest question, when did small r republicanism go so out of style?
- maxerickson 6y agoIf a group of organized children have a big influence on a vote, maybe that's a good thing... A simple way to allow children to vote while avoiding parental coercion (the only reasonably arguable downside) is to require them to complete the ballot without the assistance of a parent/guardian.
- thatswrong0 6y agoRestricting voting in this case is clearly meant as restricting voting of (legally aged) demographics that tend to skew Democrat. There's a reason Republican politicians are more likely to oppose mail-in voting even though it's a logical thing to implement in every state. We're not talking about letting dogs vote. If we want this to be a more representative republic, we should make voting as easy as possible for everyone. So yes, it's restricting voting in this manner is pretty evil.
- henriquez 6y agoTo be fair, Democrats gerrymander just as much. I’m not saying it’s okay. But I don’t think spouting partisan talking points makes for interesting or constructive conversation on HN.
- traderjane 6y agoNow that these cases are part of court and academic attention, what interval of events makes you think that gerrymandering is balanced?