Especially not when the group of exclusively white males are posing in front of a painting of a famous slave plantation while signing new Jim Crow legislation to restrict black people from voting. 
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You’re hired!
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Unfortunately, we’d end up right back where we were at the inception of the Civil War; a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions among people our founding documents swore to protect.
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CHRIST ALMIGHTY georgia GOP! just say it out loud. YOU DON’T WANT BLACK PEOPLE TO VOTE. saying it’s “election integrity” just proves to the world how cowardly and simpering you all are. you disgust me.
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I am blown away by the comprehensiveness of the suppression: making it a misdemeanor to give food or water to voters waiting in line.
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Well, it will affect white people who have to wait in hours-long lines too! Wait, that only happens in areas with a lot of PoC’s, doesn’t it? Yup, checks out. Wealthy white folks protected, others disenfranchised. Working as designed.
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Where were all the “good cops”? Aren’t there supposed to be “good cops” who would stop this kind of treachery against democracy?
Won’t a single “good cop” step forward and uphold the law?
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Hmmm. Or two people walk down the line together, one handing out the water bottles and snacks, and the second person gives the first a penny for each item given out. The item’s been purchased, so it’s not free… this could work.
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Calling it Jim Crow 2.0 implies Jim Crow 1.0 ever stopped.
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Do you realize how many BoingBoingers we’d lose to that separation?
Lots of good people in that part of the country.
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How about just handing out water everywhere even if it’s illegal while thoroughly documenting how non-partisan you’re being. Then proving in court that this is unconstitutional.
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That’s fair. Getting that unconstitutional law overturned is, of course, a priority. I do like the strategy as a way to keep good people out of jail until that’s accomplished.
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Having a lot of people in jail over an obviously unjust law is a good way to turn public sentiment.
Look at how badly the government has lost the war on drugs.
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i can’t tell you how angry it makes me to see an black woman who is an elected official being dragged away in handcuffs for attempting to represent her constituency which is presumably part of her job. i’m absolutely infuriated.
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After countless lives have been ruined.
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Yep. Authoritarian conservatives make you pay in blood for your rights.
It’s the only thing that satisfies them.
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Things got worse after
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Yep. The only reason this legislation is feasible at all is the SCOTUS gutting the VRA.
It turns out the GOP dominated southern states really can’t be trusted to run fair elections on their own.
And very much apologies to @anon61221983 and the rest, I don’t want to say the south is shit, but you just don’t see this level of active voter suppression in northern states. A bunch of states proving that they can’t handle being fair the moment the governing mechanisms specially made for them are taken off may not make them shit states, but at this point I don’t know what does.
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