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Re:The near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppr... by defrost on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @01:36AM (#41911488)
Like many such policies it's not explicitly racist .. as a procedure it simply disenfranchises some demographics more than others; lower income brackets, people that have had difficult housing and record keepng pasts, indigenous voters on reservation lands lacking mailbox addresses, etc.

It's a mystery how that appears to proportionally exclude along racial and ethnic lines but it's assuredly not that by delibrate intent.

Just a happy accident really?

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Re:The near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppr... by giraffe_lady on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @12:02PM (#41915662)
A fun fact is that this is specifically the question the academic framework of critical race theory was formed to address. How can systems that are not explicitly racist, that may actually have racial equity as explicit goals, still create racially disparate outcomes. It's an interesting area of study! No wonder people hate it.
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