Blujayooo@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agoIf You Needed to Pass an Exam to Votelemmy.worldimagemessage-square122linkfedilinkarrow-up1467
arrow-up1467imageIf You Needed to Pass an Exam to Votelemmy.worldBlujayooo@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agomessage-square122linkfedilink
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoPerhaps the exam should have included a section on the history of civil rights and voting suppression in the United States.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·21 days agoAh, yes: if you acknowledge it existed, you fail and can’t vote. That’s what you had in mind, right? 'Cause that’s what would happen.
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·21 days agoNo, what I had in mind was an ironic response to someone who didn’t know his history, which would have told him why the whole idea of a “voting exam” was a bad one.
Perhaps the exam should have included a section on the history of civil rights and voting suppression in the United States.
Ah, yes: if you acknowledge it existed, you fail and can’t vote.
That’s what you had in mind, right? 'Cause that’s what would happen.
No, what I had in mind was an ironic response to someone who didn’t know his history, which would have told him why the whole idea of a “voting exam” was a bad one.