edit: seems like some people interpret “full of” as a mathematical majority which, while it may or might not be true instance to instance, isn’t my intent in posting

feel free to swap in “has a lot of” if that’s more familiar language to you :)

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    I did actually read your comment, I just didn’t entirely agree with you you condescending ass.

    MLKs daughter never voted without the civil rights act. You forgot to add 18 to the age someone would need to be to have voted before the act passed.
    Most of the southern electorate is neither 78 or older, or even 60.
    The point was that it’s not a convincing argument, not that someone isn’t alive who was impacted.

    I’m not sure what class disenfranchisement has to do with the part you’re angry about. Maybe if you actually read what I said you’d have seen where I mentioned it for the rest of the comment.

    If you’re not even going to read what people say, you have no grounds to complain that people aren’t “being a genuine participant”.

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      me: lists evidence of voter suppression in 1920, 1965, and today

      you: THAT WAS OVER 60 YEARS AGO

      me: i don’t think you saw the part where i said “today”

      you: name calling

      i love this website so much

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      thanks for the personal attack i guess lol you are so cool online wow so cool

      still you act like 60 years is some kind of insurmountable gap in history and that’s so cringe. the echoes of slavery and native american genocide echo from before 1776 through today. MLK didn’t magically die and then fix every barrier Black people suffered in life. that’s pretty basic history lol.

      I’m not sure what class disenfranchisement has to do with the part you’re angry about.

      all of it you silly goose. disenfranchisement means “depriving someone of the right to vote.” when the poor are depreived of the right to vote (not directly by law, but indirectly by systemic barriers), it means shocker they don’t vote. this entire thread is in response to someone saying “i guess but they voted for that too.” that’s the context you butted into, i operate on the pretty fair premise that you knew that and read the thread. :)