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This is a totally disingenuous way to describe John Oliver's stance on the situation. Seconds later from your timestamped link, John Oliver summarizes the point

This is a totally disingenuous way to describe John Oliver's stance on the situation. Seconds later from your timestamped link, John Oliver summarizes the point of his video, which your dismissal misses: "not all weird-shaped districts are bad, and not all normal-shaped districts are good." Your reply neglects to consider different reasons why a district ends up having a weird shape. Read more about why it makes no sense to glibly try to dunk on John Oliver with him being OK with this specific Black-Latino split, the "earmuffs" of Chicago's 4th congressional district: https://www.changeil.org/2020/03/why-chicagos-4th-congressional-district-those-earmuffs-are-about-fairness-and-not-gerrymandering/ https://www.changeil.org/2020/03/why-chicagos-4th-congressio... From the article: The [federal] court favored a Republican-sponsored map that created a super-majority Latino congressional district, the 4th, today known as the “earmuffs” district. That map also preserved three super-majority African-American congressional districts in the region. The Republican map — and this is the heart of the matter — met necessary constitutional and legal criteria to provide “fairness to the voting rights of racial and language minorities,” as mandated by Section 2 of the Federal Voting Rights Act. People with shared interests do not live in neatly squared areas. The 4th Congressional District was created to reflect that reality. If the district had been shaped in that way for any reason other than to protect the shared interests of a minority group like Latinos, it probably could be considered an example of cynical, partisan gerrymandering. But, in this case, it gave a strong Latino community the chance to elect someone of their own choosing to Congress.

aaron695 6y ago
> Seconds later from your timestamped link, John Oliver summarizes the point of his video > "not all weird-shaped districts are bad, and not all normal-shaped districts are good." Thanks for summarising my point? I'm not sure what else to say. We can also talk the fact John Oliver supports Jim Crow laws. Racially dividing American Blacks and American Latinos via boundaries, that's pretty messed up. But I think the Left checked out a few years ago. And I personally don't think John Oliver supports the ear muff district. He obviously has writers and it slipped through. But it's about a world he thinks it's normal enough to let slip. He needs to take responsibility for his program.

aaron695 6y ago

> Seconds later from your timestamped link, John Oliver summarizes the point of his video > "not all weird-shaped districts are bad, and not all normal-shaped districts are good." Thanks for summarising my point? I'm not sure what else to say. We can also talk the fact John Oliver supports Jim Crow laws. Racially dividing American Blacks and American Latinos via boundaries, that's pretty messed up. But I think the Left checked out a few years ago. And I personally don't think John Oliver supports the ear muff district. He obviously has writers and it slipped through. But it's about a world he thinks it's normal enough to let slip. He needs to take responsibility for his program.