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A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote

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319 points rcarmo | 6 comments | 21 Oct 24 21:29 UTC | HN request time: 1.106s | source | bottom
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valval ◴[22 Oct 24 07:16 UTC] No.41911957[source]▶
I think the weight of your vote should come from the amount of taxes you pay, up to some cap. Can someone explain to me like I’m 12 why this is a bad idea?
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INTPenis ◴[22 Oct 24 07:50 UTC] No.41912140[source]▶
Can you explain to me why votes should be weighted differently at all?
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marcusverus ◴[22 Oct 24 11:57 UTC] No.41913386[source]▶
When you have a tough problem and need advice, do you turn to your unemployed uncle? The homeless guy on the street corner? Of course not. Not all opinions are of equal value. Pretending that they are of equal value is asinine.
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1. consteval ◴[22 Oct 24 13:14 UTC] No.41913904[source]▶
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2. llamaimperative ◴[22 Oct 24 14:22 UTC] No.41914614[source]▶
> Your feelings on the matter don't constitute an argument.

Nor do your feelings that poor people are de facto dumber than rich people.

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3. consteval ◴[22 Oct 24 14:25 UTC] No.41914634[source]▶
You haven't provided an argument so there's nothing for me to disprove. You haven't specified in what ways preventing the poor to vote would help anything. You just said "well I wouldn't ask a poor person to help me buy something!"

They're citizens of our society and therefore any and all societal decisions will directly impact them. It is our right to have some amount of influence over decisions that directly impact us. You, yourself, understand that.

Why then should that concept not extend to the poor? This question is purely rhetorical - I know you don't have an answer, and probably the least embarrassing way forward would be to just say nothing. But, that's the perspective I'm addressing here and why I didn't bother to explain why the poor deserve those rights. I don't need to - I get those rights, and I like them, so that's the status-quo.

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5. marcusverus ◴[22 Oct 24 15:28 UTC] No.41915254{3}[source]▶
I said no such thing.
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6. llamaimperative ◴[22 Oct 24 18:14 UTC] No.41917060{4}[source]▶
> Your feelings on the matter don't constitute an argument.

Nor do your feelings that poor people have less informed, less useful, less credible, less valid, or less valuable opinions than rich people.

Better?