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>Of course prisoners should not be allowed to vote I don't follow. Please explain. >Instead, the electorate should be narrowed to property owning people who
by buellerbueller 8mo ago
>Of course prisoners should not be allowed to vote
I don't follow. Please explain.
>Instead, the electorate should be narrowed to property owning people who have an IQ above 85 (within one SD of median) and two grandparents born in the U.S. (so culturally assimilated).
Yeah, just like the good old days when we had literacy tests in this country to vote down south.
You're literally calling for a return of Jim Crow.
- rayiner 8mo agoJim Crow was bad because it targeted people in the basis of a characteristic that didn’t matter: skin color. That doesn’t mean that all restrictions on voting are bad. If the restriction is based on a characteristic that does matter, like intelligence, that’s completely different.
- buellerbueller 8mo agoIf you are a citizen, subject to the laws and the taxes, you should get a vote: no exceptions.
- rayiner 8mo agoWhy? To what end?
- buellerbueller 8mo agoI am certain, because you use IQ as a metric for who you think should vote, that you are smart enough to puzzle out a steelman argument for my position. Use that big brain of yours and try it, you might learn something about humanity (and humility)!
- rayiner 8mo agoThere’s lots of potential reasons. I’m trying to figure out which one you’re invoking?