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If you could pass an 8th grade civics class, you would know that testing for voting is peak jim-crow era BS.
Go back and try again.
Difference here would be the test is applied to everyone, not only a racial monitory. Still, the idea makes me squirm.
There can absolutely be a difference between a facts based civics test and the intentionally vague bullshit of the Jim Crow era.
Just because a process was used as a cover for systemic discrimination in the past doesn't mean the process is invalid.
We require it for gaining citizenship after all. I've taken the test myself and it's pretty basic 8th grade level stuff about how the government is supposed to function.
I don't think it's inherently wrong to insure that the people participating in the process actually know how the process works.
Disagree, any barriers to participation can (and historiclly will) be abused by those in power. I understand the desire for a minimum level of expectation of society, but unless those expectations are set in stone, they will be moved to disadvantage someone. It would be nice for people to behave and be informed, the world does not work that way...