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

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319 points rcarmo | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 21:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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KingOfCoders ◴[22 Oct 24 05:58 UTC] No.41911577[source]▶
What a strange idea for someone from Germany. Here you are registered as a citizen and get a letter to your registered address and you take that to the voting station. Vote. Done.
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ndbsbwbw ◴[22 Oct 24 07:09 UTC] No.41911929[source]▶
Because, yes Germany has always been fair, democratic and non discriminating.
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MandieD ◴[22 Oct 24 14:10 UTC] No.41914474[source]▶
I wish my home country could be as brutally honest with itself about its past and work as hard to make things right as Germany has been the last several decades.

The disturbing party coming up on the Right feels like Germany has blamed itself for too long. That “self-blame” is a lot of what has enabled modern Germany to be a much better place than it was before the war.

(I’m an American living in greater Nuremberg, and get to see monuments to Germany’s failures on a regular basis)

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1. StanislavPetrov ◴[22 Oct 24 19:22 UTC] No.41917732{3}[source]▶
>I wish my home country could be as brutally honest with itself about its past and work as hard to make things right as Germany has been the last several decades.

Given how Germany is treating those protesting its support of Israel's ongoing war, some would suggest that Germany isn't being quite as brutally honest one might imagine.