Re:EU Countries Back Copyright Reforms Aimed at Google, Face...
by dragonwriter on Sunday February 24, 2019 @01:23AM
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> He did
No he didn't; The Emancipation Proclamation did not abolish slavery.
> Because now you're talking about racism rather than slavery,
No, I'm talking about the distorted structures I listed that are features of the design of our political system that were placed in the Constitution to protect slavery. The ones that directly dealt with slavery were removed; the ones which were put in to tilt the balance of political power to resistance abolition were not, even after abolition, which is why our federal political system is still heavily tilted toward voters in less populated slates and still heavily rewards the remaining voters in states which effectively disenfranchise other citizens (though, to be fair, the last part was in theory directly addressed by provisions in the 14th Amendment directly calling for loss of representation for doing that, which would counteract that effect, but those provisions have never been enforced even against the most blatant systematic disenfranchisement, leaving the old imbalance fully in effect.)
Racism is a different problem (though one that frequently is involved in leveraging those systematic imbalances.)
No he didn't; The Emancipation Proclamation did not abolish slavery.
> Because now you're talking about racism rather than slavery,
No, I'm talking about the distorted structures I listed that are features of the design of our political system that were placed in the Constitution to protect slavery. The ones that directly dealt with slavery were removed; the ones which were put in to tilt the balance of political power to resistance abolition were not, even after abolition, which is why our federal political system is still heavily tilted toward voters in less populated slates and still heavily rewards the remaining voters in states which effectively disenfranchise other citizens (though, to be fair, the last part was in theory directly addressed by provisions in the 14th Amendment directly calling for loss of representation for doing that, which would counteract that effect, but those provisions have never been enforced even against the most blatant systematic disenfranchisement, leaving the old imbalance fully in effect.)
Racism is a different problem (though one that frequently is involved in leveraging those systematic imbalances.)