• LeftReddit2@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    If you think voting is useless, I gotta ask then why do so many politicians try to surpress it?

    • Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      As a black person, if voting is useless, then why did Jim Crow era South come up with millions of ways to stop Black people from voting? Why do d still have systems set in place to make voting for minorities harder, like laws about former felons not being able to vote?

      If you’re a minority (race and gender, fuck even poor white men) your ancestors didn’t fight and die for voting rights just for you to sit here and go “oh it doesn’t really do anything”