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Tons of other countries require voter ID. You could say they’re all just being racist or whatever. But that wasn’t my point.

My point was — when it comes to challenging things you agree with, you write long explanations with nuance.

But when it’s things you disagree with, you say they’re “simply wrong”. That’s what I was getting at.

You need to have a consistent standard for discussion, and clearly the latter approach isn’t very helpful or productive.



I’m not calling voter ID racist. I’m saying that in the United States it has an established history of being abused by racists to suppress minority votes. This is a verifiable fact. Look at the Voting Rights Act for proof.

> You need to have a consistent standard for discussion, and clearly the latter approach isn’t very helpful or productive.

And yet you just did what you accuse me of.


Yes I did it after you to mimic you and prove a point


Right, which is what I was doing to begin with. So I guess we’re both right.




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