Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Ben Shapiro's Painfully Dumbest Take Ever" video.
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@imlikewhat860 Adding hurdles, that affect minorities more, is racist. Whether the hurdles are surmountable, or not, is irrelevant. If you want to add classist hurdles, without them being racist, then balance the poverty rates. They'll still be classist, though. Poorer urban people are less likely to own vehicles and more reliant on public transportation, so less likely to have a driver's license. They are also less able to afford taking a day off work. You're now adding hurdles to them voting, that weren't there before, in terms of ID. Making certain communities wait in line, and not other communities, is likewise racist, and classist. That it's possible to endure and get through is completely irrelevant to the point.
There are numerous ethnicity/nationality based clubs. There are numerous ethnicity/nationality based competitions and awards. There are numerous ethnicity/nationality based neighborhoods, or "towns". I don't think you quite have a grasp on exactly what racism is. A Scottish pipe band celebrating its Scottishness isn't racist.
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@imlikewhat860 It's not the you need a license. It's that they don't already have a useable ID on hand. They're made to go out and get an extra ID, to vote. If you don't think taking a day off work is an issue, then you have zero clue what it's like to be poor.
The poverty rate for black Americans went from near 60% down to 30% after the Civil Rights Act and the migration North. It was a North South divide, back then, not a Dem Rep divide. You're living in some delusion, where the parties are exactly the same as 150 years ago.
I don't think you know how racists work. A racist has an ideal in mind, with characteristics. They can add religion to it, nationality to it, ethnicity to it ... whatever they want. Nazis managed to be racist towards Jews, Poles, Romani, etc., all of which were white. The KKK managed to also hate Jews and Catholics, because they added the Protestant characteristic to being the ideal white person.
I also don't think you grasp that the vast majority of black Americans are descended from slaves. They were ripped away from their nations, ethnic groups, cultures, heritage, ancestry, and all thrown together into a singular slave culture. Africa is a massive continent, with dozens of countries and hundreds of different ethnic/cultural groupings. Black Americans don't tend to know which one they came from, and have developed their own cultural grouping. Black American is not simply a race. Much like descendants of black slaves in Jamaica, Haiti, etc., developed new cultures, in those countries. The only difference being they are the majority there.
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@imlikewhat860 No, you're arguing for the "magical" opposite. The geography is still similar. You're arguing that states where the majority fought and died to keep slavery going, where the KKK thrived, where the majority supported Jim Crow laws, which now tend to vote red, have magically become majority non racist, magically become the least racist. And, that the states which fought and voted against those things, where black Americans of the great migration migrated to, which now tend to vote blue, the party black Americans migrated to, have magically became majority racist, magically become the most racist.
The parties weren't unified and partisan, 60 years ago. Again, geography was a bigger factor than party. Why are you pretending like a Democratic president didn't push for the Civil Rights Act? Why are you pretending like the majority of Democratic representatives didn't vote for the Civil Rights Act?
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