Garmel (01-21-2017)
You know what would help poor black people to vote? Stop raiding and pillaging their communities. The war on drugs disenfranchises tens of millions of people but we care more about the handful of black people who apparently live their lives withere no ID or drivers license. Good luck getting a job without id.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
So how much violence is occurring right now among what appears to be hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating nationwide?
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goldfly (01-21-2017)
Er, (Republican-appointed, it must be noted) federal judges have struck down voter id laws in NC and Wisconsin, ruling that they were expressly intended to be discriminatory. That's an unequivocal statement that civil rights have been violated. So, the fact that thethe doesn't see how it impacts civil rights is kinda irrelevant, isn't it? You asked for an example and I gave you one.
"For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." Amanda Gorman
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goldfly (01-21-2017)
I wouldn't characterize human walls as necessarily violent either but certainly it is a form of free speech suppression which I assume you are not fond of. And I think you'd probably admit that occurs more against right leaning speakers as well. Imo, there are several reasons for this discrepency.
1) There are more young people who identify as left leaning and young people are more likely to do dumb violent or fascist acts.
2) Leftists tend to be driven more by emotion when compared to those who lean right.
3) A push by democrat politicians and media to unfairly and maliciously portray people on the right as racist, bigoted and homophobic thus giving a rationalization for young emotional people to commit acts of violence and fascism.
I think as long as people on the left continue to push my third point the escalated violence and fascism from the left will continue.
thank you weso1!
No, you're moving the goalposts. Those court cases have unequivocally ruled that civil rights are being violated and your response is "what is a civil right"?
You're welcome to your opinion. I'm telling you that the opinions I've referenced have the force of law behind them, so you can't easily wave them away so easily.
So, if the courts rule that equal protection under the law is violated by laws drafted with the intent of suppressing the franchise among certain groups, you would disagree that peoples' civil rights are being violated?
Julio3000 (01-21-2017), Metaphysicist (01-22-2017)