Project is not a bigot, and you know that. There is a cultural difference, perhaps. Distrust in our neck of the woods, where we have seen, even been victims of manipulation in our real lives. Others maybe come from a more homogenized environment, not so threatening. I get where Project is coming from, and it is not from
anything other than being honest.
Many countries aren’t Texas, or Alabama, or North Carolina, or the neo-Confederate South of an Attorney General Sessions’ Justice Department under the Roberts Court and the Trump presidency.
Having ID seems reasonable. And you don’t have to worry about getting it. More over, once folks that’ve never needed these forms of ID to vote before succeed in getting it, Jim Crow will move onto the next way to manipulate you into resenting the victims of whatever that voter suppression scheme is.
Totally agree with this in the US context. Real ID is a good example. Some states have not adopted it. They won't be able to go on military bases or board a plane or enter certain federal building without the Real ID recognized driver's license. It is a de facto National ID...and nobody thinks that a problem?
Enough for a quarter of the states to pass laws specifically forbidding complying with the federal REAL ID Act. Enough so that “Homeland Security,” (eesh, that still sounds creepy) keeps pretending to give out ‘waivers’ to states. Until they don’t.
With so many state legislatures dead set against it, my guess is that Motherland Security will extend the requirement deadline for air travel past 2018.
Project is not a bigot, and you know that. There is a cultural difference, perhaps. Distrust in our neck of the woods, where we have seen, even been victims of manipulation in our real lives. Others maybe come from a more homogenized environment, not so threatening. I get where Project is coming from, and it is not from anything other than being honest.
Fair. Something Jim Crow has always pretended to be.
There is nothing fair about Jim Crow.
Have to show ID in many countries to vote.
Many countries aren’t Texas, or Alabama, or North Carolina, or the neo-Confederate South of an Attorney General Sessions’ Justice Department under the Roberts Court and the Trump presidency.
Having ID seems reasonable. And you don’t have to worry about getting it. More over, once folks that’ve never needed these forms of ID to vote before succeed in getting it, Jim Crow will move onto the next way to manipulate you into resenting the victims of whatever that voter suppression scheme is.
Totally agree with this in the US context. Real ID is a good example. Some states have not adopted it. They won't be able to go on military bases or board a plane or enter certain federal building without the Real ID recognized driver's license. It is a de facto National ID...and nobody thinks that a problem?
Enough for a quarter of the states to pass laws specifically forbidding complying with the federal REAL ID Act. Enough so that “Homeland Security,” (eesh, that still sounds creepy) keeps pretending to give out ‘waivers’ to states. Until they don’t.
My parents live in PA, one of those states not complying...and they didn't even know about it.
With so many state legislatures dead set against it, my guess is that Motherland Security will extend the requirement deadline for air travel past 2018.