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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by labster on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:15PM (#15389850)
"People aren't supposed to live [in DC]" is racist if you consider the population that does live there, and how that racial minority came to live there in historical context. Almost certainly unintentional racism, but you definitely could have phrased it better as "the original intent of a federal district was not to create a large city outside of a State."
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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by rayiner on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:43PM (#15389949)
You're definitely right. There are a significant number of D.C. residents who live here because their ancestors were brought to the city as slaves. They should be able to vote. Everyone else should not.
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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by SamReidHughes on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:26AM (#15390378)
No, they had as much choice to grow up in D.C. as anybody else who grew up there.
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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by objectivetruth on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:39PM (#15396440)
That's got to violate like a dozen constitutional and legal principles from the past couple of hundred years...
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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by emodendroket on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:34AM (#15391654)
Sounds like a nightmare to administer that policy.
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