Blujayooo@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoIf You Needed to Pass an Exam to Votelemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square271linkfedilinkarrow-up1675arrow-down1138
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minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month 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-up7·1 month 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-up1·1 month 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.