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Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won. (www.gregpalast.com)
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"If the purges [of potential voters], challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast."

"[...] Democracy can win* despite the 2.3% suppression headwind.

And that’s our job as Americans: to end the purges, the vigilante challenges, the ballot rejections and the attitude that this is all somehow OK."

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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The core tenet of tribalism is “They aren’t like us.” That might be based on skin color, hair type, clothing, smell (from different diets), behavior.

That's just not accurate. Its historically been cultural, not phenotypes.

Prisoners of war, which were different skin colors, tended to be accepted into the group once they adapted the captor's customs.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    For the last 200 years, a significant amount of slavery has been limited to certain phenotypes. I agree that prior to that, it was less prevalent. That doesn't mean we don't have a historical model of slavery based on phenotype, it's just more recent history.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It means it's an abberation.

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