Felon Disenfranchisement

[Dill]

(12-05-2019, 07:18 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Sorry to bump an old, old thread....but this is a very important teaching lesson.

I'm sure Fred didn't understand the math, but as he constructed this "what is left" is +100k Democratic votes....that's assuming you're a racist bigot and believe all white people vote Republican.

 
This gets dismissed again and again.  And if I can make broad strokes, a lot of policies that are deemed racist hurt more whites than blacks.  That's just the reality that whites outnumber blacks almost 5 to 1.   It disproportionately hurts blacks, but elections (except for POTUS) are not proportionate, they are based on the absolute number of votes.  So a lot of policies that are called "racist" by the Democratic Media actually hurt more whites, and would lose elections.  But propaganda has nothing to do with reality.

Can you make that dismissed "reality" a bit more specific? Can you name TWO specific federal or state policies deemed "racist" by the Democratic media that actually hurt more whites than blacks?

To continue with your teaching lesson--If I am a Republican gaming the vote in a southern state, and my party can pass a voting law which suppresses 150,000 ex con white votes and 100,000 ex con black votes, then by your standard, that law could not be racist because it "hurts more whites than blacks" in that bloc of 250,000 suppressed votes.

But as you say, not all whites vote Republican. If I am gaming the vote, the only numbers that count are the numbers that win elections for Republicans.

If my state law suppresses 100,000 Republican votes from the aforementioned 150,000 white votes and 10,000 from the black, but effectively suppresses the remaining 140,000 Dem votes out of the total 250,000 suppressed, then what is the net gain for the Republican vote total statewide? Those are the numbers I would be interested in. If they tip the election in favor of my party, which will pass further laws targeting black voters, then the "reality" would be that your "policies deemed racist that hurt more whites" nevertheless deliver power to the party that maintains a racist status quo.

You seem to think that just could not be the case if "more whites are affected."