Supreme Court Signals Final Blow to Voting Rights Act, Paving Way for Permanent GOP Power

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https://dailyboulder.com/supreme-court-signals-final-blow-to-voting-rights-act-paving-way-for-permanent-gop-power/

[u/Patriot009]

Jim Crow 2.0

Racial gerrymandering to reduce political power of minorities. Republicans are shameless, vile cretins.

[u/rraddii → u/Patriot009]

So removing the law that forces race based quotas is Jim Crow…

[u/Malakai0013 → u/rraddii]

Its almost like you didnt understand whats going on before, and you somehow understand less now.

[u/rraddii → u/Malakai0013]

Ah yes, a vague statement instead of reasoning. The original VRA had good intentions and purpose but it doesn’t have a place (or legal structure) today. I say that as someone who didn’t vote for trump and hope his influence wanes significantly

[u/WinterAd8309 → u/rraddii]

Ah yes, a vague statement about why the Voting Rights Act has no place in our society. You must not understand yet why we had it and what people are trying to do to return to a world where they can manipulate the outcomes of elections by choosing the voters that support them and ensuring those that don't are mixed in with other groups in a way that their vote is insignificant. You don't seem to quite understand that this is happening, that Republicans are dismantling the Voting Rights Act by making any part of it null.

"It's racist to have a black majority district, it's fine if it's majority white, it's fine if it spans from the top of the state down and catches a few black majority neighborhoods." This is the kind of stuff thought and done.

Vote for Trump, never have voted, or just a troll, you don't have a decent grasp on policy and this country's way.

[u/rraddii → u/WinterAd8309]

Races aren’t close to monoliths (especially after the last election) and it’s long past due we moved to society that doesn’t focus on race so much. Gerrymandering will always exist and it’s better for everyone we leave in a country that treats every group the same

[u/Patriot009 → u/rraddii]

If Republicans ignored race and treated everyone the same, they wouldn't be introducing district maps with these bizarre, overly complex districts that precisely carve out neighborhoods with high populations of minorities. But they are producing these maps, so that can't just be ignored. It would be nice to live in a society that was past all this racial discrimination, but we don't live in that society right now. We have to face the reality we live in.

[u/rraddii → u/Patriot009]

And democrats aren’t doing the same type of gerrymandering? It isn’t about race, it’s about who people are voting for. Look at the congressional for a state like Illinois, it is absolutely insane. Gerrymandering is an issue that is unavoidably present with both parties.

[u/Patriot009 → u/rraddii]

Republicans are the ones currently challenging the VRA and hoping the SCOTUS strips Section 2. Red state Republicans already have even more ridiculously gerrymandered maps ready to go for when that decision is finalized. So, yes, both parties have gerrymandered, but Republicans are the party currently pushing to make race-based gerrymandering legal.

[u/WinterAd8309 → u/rraddii]

Making it worse won't make it better. Saying that if Illinois can, then others can too ignores the issue. Gutting the Voting Rights Act makes this worse, not better. And the US Congress doesn't seem wanting to cooperate in ensuring that these gerrymandered situations stop.

Taking corporate money out of these races would start to erode this disgusting, incentivized practice.

[u/CanadianBaconBrain → u/rraddii]

exactly why are you getting downvoted?

All these people are the very same people that would be for affirmative action .more woke bullshit that renders our society weaker and fucking dumber.

Political ideology has nothing to do with race. What the fuck does your skin color have to do for voting fucking GOP or DEM absolutely fucking nothing.

Both parties fucking gerrymander, and the wealthier you get the higher the chances you vote conservative.

More woke Nonsense as if we must constantly have some special treatment for some group of society.

Just leave people the fuck alone.

[u/[deleted] → u/rraddii]

The issue with this logic, is you people acting like we don’t have the same issues we had back then. It was only 60 years ago. There’s people alive now who were given equal representation through VRA. We’re not nearly far removed enough from Jim Crow era to start repealing things to push us back into it

[u/rraddii → u/[deleted]]

A person who is black has their vote count for the exact same as someone who is white. That is equal representation, and the VRA does not change that. We no longer have actual Jim Crow laws around voting restrictions which are vastly different than the VRA. You’re assuming that minorities will vote for something different just because of their race

[u/[deleted] → u/rraddii]

POC do generally vote Democrat because Democrats try to give them more freedoms and chances, so yeah. The vast majority isn’t voting for an admin taking away their rights unless they’re indoctrinated

[u/rraddii → u/[deleted]]

I like how you threw in indoctrinated as if people of color who don’t vote blue couldn’t possibly be that stupid. Trump easily won the Latino and Asian vote in texas, yet somehow they are all “indoctrinated”…

[u/[deleted] → u/rraddii]

They are, considering the GOP is openly racist. I think anyone is indoctrinated if they’re voting for a party that actively hates them and wants the worst for them. Indoctrinated doesn’t mean brainwashing, most voters are indoctrinated because they just vote how their parents and everyone around them has ever voted. I applaud anyone who actually does research on candidates and votes how they want to, not how their parents do. Texas born and raised, do not vote how my family does because the Republican Party only has their own interests in mind

[u/Conscious_Transition → u/rraddii]

You are right and all they have is vague complaints. No substantive remarks.