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The left doesn't support that because it disproportionately disenfranchises minority voters. Which is the same reason why the right DOES support it.

Grakel 7y ago
It's pretty racist to say some groups can't figure out how to get a driver's license.
- alistairSH 7y ago
  Nobody made that claim.
- DonHopkins 7y ago
  You are the only one making such a racist claim. Don't put words into other people's mouths, when it's actually just the first thing that popped into YOUR head, and you apparently don't know the true history of racism and voter suppression and Jim Crow laws and poll taxes and the Southern Strategy and dog whistle politics in America. It's pretty racist to deny that history, and pretty ignorant not to know it. It's pretty racist that Republicans pass laws and close DMVs in areas that make it harder for certain groups to get a driver's license. It's also pretty racist of Republicans that they desperately don't want blacks to vote and do everything they can to prevent it, any way they can. That kind of Republican racism is why blacks are predominantly Democratic. Not because blacks foolishly let themselves get "tricked" into voting for Democrats, as the racist right-wing narrative goes. And it's pretty racist for Republicans to try to explain away the reason that most blacks vote Democrat as the result of Democrats trying to "keep them on the plantation", when blacks are perfectly capable of deciding who to vote for all by themselves, and are not "mentally enslaved" children lacking agency who can't be trusted to decide for themselves who has their best interests in mind (and run for office themselves), otherwise they'd be tricked by those sneaky Democrats who want them to vote. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/08/how-democratic-plantation-became-one-conservatives-favorite-slurs/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/08/how-democr... >How the ‘Democratic plantation’ became one of conservatives’ favorite slurs >Since the 1960s, the right has explained away black Democrats by denying them agency. >In 2017, Candace Owens, then known as the YouTuber Red Pill Black, posted a short video called “How to Escape the Democrat Plantation (an easy guide).” In it, she compared African Americans who were physically enslaved before 1865 to their present-day descendants who, she argued, are mentally enslaved by the Democratic Party. She slammed the unquestionable loyalty that black people hold toward the party, which she argued functions as a plantation, in which people of African descent do the ground level work and receive nothing (or perhaps, just enough) in return. Her efforts eventually spawned the “Blexit” movement, a portmanteau that encouraged black Americans to exit the Democratic Party. [...] >A closer look at the phrase “Democrat plantation” and the divisions that accompany it, however, make clear much of this rhetoric is shallow and ahistorical. It distorts the current state of the relationship between Democrats and African American voters, and deprives the latter of agency, in part because of a failure to adequately understand the historical comparison that this rhetoric purports to make.

Grakel 7y ago

It's pretty racist to say some groups can't figure out how to get a driver's license.

alistairSH 7y ago
Nobody made that claim.
DonHopkins 7y ago
You are the only one making such a racist claim. Don't put words into other people's mouths, when it's actually just the first thing that popped into YOUR head, and you apparently don't know the true history of racism and voter suppression and Jim Crow laws and poll taxes and the Southern Strategy and dog whistle politics in America. It's pretty racist to deny that history, and pretty ignorant not to know it. It's pretty racist that Republicans pass laws and close DMVs in areas that make it harder for certain groups to get a driver's license. It's also pretty racist of Republicans that they desperately don't want blacks to vote and do everything they can to prevent it, any way they can. That kind of Republican racism is why blacks are predominantly Democratic. Not because blacks foolishly let themselves get "tricked" into voting for Democrats, as the racist right-wing narrative goes. And it's pretty racist for Republicans to try to explain away the reason that most blacks vote Democrat as the result of Democrats trying to "keep them on the plantation", when blacks are perfectly capable of deciding who to vote for all by themselves, and are not "mentally enslaved" children lacking agency who can't be trusted to decide for themselves who has their best interests in mind (and run for office themselves), otherwise they'd be tricked by those sneaky Democrats who want them to vote. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/08/how-democratic-plantation-became-one-conservatives-favorite-slurs/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/08/how-democr... >How the ‘Democratic plantation’ became one of conservatives’ favorite slurs >Since the 1960s, the right has explained away black Democrats by denying them agency. >In 2017, Candace Owens, then known as the YouTuber Red Pill Black, posted a short video called “How to Escape the Democrat Plantation (an easy guide).” In it, she compared African Americans who were physically enslaved before 1865 to their present-day descendants who, she argued, are mentally enslaved by the Democratic Party. She slammed the unquestionable loyalty that black people hold toward the party, which she argued functions as a plantation, in which people of African descent do the ground level work and receive nothing (or perhaps, just enough) in return. Her efforts eventually spawned the “Blexit” movement, a portmanteau that encouraged black Americans to exit the Democratic Party. [...] >A closer look at the phrase “Democrat plantation” and the divisions that accompany it, however, make clear much of this rhetoric is shallow and ahistorical. It distorts the current state of the relationship between Democrats and African American voters, and deprives the latter of agency, in part because of a failure to adequately understand the historical comparison that this rhetoric purports to make.