Blujayooo@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoIf You Needed to Pass an Exam to Votelemmy.worldimagemessage-square121linkfedilinkarrow-up1467
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minus-squareDreamButt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 months agoyou think the current racist rich people wouldn’t be racist and rich if we introduced an exam to the voting process?
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI think the qualifying questions could be attached to the ballot and submitted anonymously. Race should not be discernable … in theory.
minus-squareSenal@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoAside from the existing deficit due to hundreds of years of systemic discrimination you mean?
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoThe tests never explicitly directly measured race nor required the voters name. They can design the tests to discriminate all sorts of ways based on the content.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoThis is true. Whoever decides the questions and determines the correct answer holds a lot of power.
you think the current racist rich people wouldn’t be racist and rich if we introduced an exam to the voting process?
I think the qualifying questions could be attached to the ballot and submitted anonymously.
Race should not be discernable … in theory.
Aside from the existing deficit due to hundreds of years of systemic discrimination you mean?
The tests never explicitly directly measured race nor required the voters name. They can design the tests to discriminate all sorts of ways based on the content.
This is true. Whoever decides the questions and determines the correct answer holds a lot of power.