Bad faith only works because it resembles good faith.
“Literacy tests” weren’t testing anything but the color of the hand holding the pencil.
A sincere effort toward political literacy cannot be judged based on how racists have lied about it.
For comparison, racists embraced gun control, when it was black people’s guns being controlled. That is not something modern gun-control advocates need to answer for. They want fewer guns, in general, because they’re against gun violence. The conservatives opposing them now are the same conservatives who wanted fewer guns, for black people, because they were against black people voting.
Bad faith only works because it resembles good faith.
“Literacy tests” weren’t testing anything but the color of the hand holding the pencil.
A sincere effort toward political literacy cannot be judged based on how racists have lied about it.
For comparison, racists embraced gun control, when it was black people’s guns being controlled. That is not something modern gun-control advocates need to answer for. They want fewer guns, in general, because they’re against gun violence. The conservatives opposing them now are the same conservatives who wanted fewer guns, for black people, because they were against black people voting.