Re:All the Ways Georgia Could Make It Harder to Vote
by anyonecancode on Thursday February 25, 2021 @11:08AM
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> saying that people of a certain race can’t provide a driver’s license or some other state id because they have a certain skin color seems a little racist (?)
Maybe easier to understand if we recall that "race" is sociological, not biological, and that skin color is a course-grained encoding society uses for mapping individuals to social identities?
From that perspective, what we're really saying is "our society has historically split people up into various sub groups, and some of those sub groups we've made it more difficult to access resources, and many common identifying documents are tied to access to these resources, so groups with less access are also less likely to have the accompanying documents."
Requiring documents that we know some groups of Americans, on average, are less likely to have, for something ALL Americans are entitled to, is problematic, no?
Maybe easier to understand if we recall that "race" is sociological, not biological, and that skin color is a course-grained encoding society uses for mapping individuals to social identities?
From that perspective, what we're really saying is "our society has historically split people up into various sub groups, and some of those sub groups we've made it more difficult to access resources, and many common identifying documents are tied to access to these resources, so groups with less access are also less likely to have the accompanying documents."
Requiring documents that we know some groups of Americans, on average, are less likely to have, for something ALL Americans are entitled to, is problematic, no?