CURRENT EVENTS General | March

[StrangePackage]

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There's no bosiding. Race is an imaginary construct and melanin levels have never been shown to impact one's ability to get an ID.

The gender essentialist wants us all to know that race is a social construct.

 

[superrific]

Race is an imaginary construct

This does not mean what you think it means and you embarrass yourself whenever you get on one of your melanin kicks.

 

[ZenMode]

The gender essentialist wants us all to know that race is a social construct.

There's are well documented physical differences between males and females.

 

[ZenMode]

This does not mean what you think it means and you embarrass yourself whenever you get on one of your melanin kicks.

Actually, I'm pretty sure it does in this situation, which is to say that the imaginary construct we call race can't possibly impact one's ability to get an ID.... Because it's imaginary. We're all just humans and, to my knowledge, there's no "ID deficiency" gene.

 

[thebruinbleedstarheelblue]

Right, like I said, I feel like I'm a better driver after a few vodka sodas, so, if enough people agree, we should ignore the objective facts about the impact of alcohol on decision making, reaction time, etc and make drinking and driving legal, right?

This is dumb.

 

[SnoopRob]

They stole the Kit Kats in Europe. I’m guessing the shipping costs to send them to American high school kids would eat into the profits.

Yeah, but European chocolate is much better than American chocolate. It’s a premium product, like Colombian cocaine.

The difference in resale value more than makes up for the shipping costs.

 

[superrific]

Actually, I'm pretty sure it does in this situation, which is to say that the imaginary construct we call race can't possibly impact one's ability to get an ID.... Because it's imaginary. We're all just humans and, to my knowledge, there's no "ID deficiency" gene.

No but there are ID deficiency life experiences, like Jim Crow.

Race is very much a social reality. When people tell you that it is a construct, what they mean is that there are few genetic differences between members of different racial groups. But there are powerful social differences and there have been for hundreds of years. That's why race is in fact a reality, which is what everyone knows.

 

[StrangePackage]

This is dumb.

Zen is dumb

 

[nycfan]

 

[finesse]

I do all my burning in a metal surround.

 

[ZenMode]

No but there are ID deficiency life experiences, like Jim Crow.

From 60 years ago.....

Race is very much a social reality. When people tell you that it is a construct, what they mean is that there are few genetic differences between members of different racial groups. But there are powerful social differences and there have been for hundreds of years. That's why race is in fact a reality, which is what everyone knows.

Even if race is a social reality, you're telling me laws that ended in the mid 60's means that people with high melanin levels are incapable of getting an ID in 2026?

Have you ever told a higher-melanin level person this belief to their face?

 

[finesse]

Just as a point of interest, around 1950, before America had to be made great again, about a third of Americans didn't have birth certificates. That would seem to indicate that it's the Republican's increasing demands for documentation and regimentation is what led to the ruination of America. Doesn't that follow?

 

[lawtig02]

From 60 years ago.....

Even if race is a social reality, you're telling me laws that ended in the mid 60's means that people with high melanin levels are incapable of getting an ID in 2026?

Have you ever told a higher-melanin level person this belief to their face?

Maybe you should chat with this lady?

 

[Kingpin]

Wait-what? Are ALL DA races across Ga now non-partisan or only these 5 counties? If the latter, how is that legal?

 

[whatntarnation]

Wait-what? Are ALL DA races across Ga now non-partisan or only these 5 counties? If the latter, how is that legal?

What's the Pubs endgame here?

 

[heelinhell]

Maybe you should chat with this lady?

See how easy it is to vote ? You just have to plan ahead

I plan to bring:
my driver's license photo ID
my birth certificate
my passport
my social security card
a history of voting since 1972

and my ace in the hole is the poll worker will see I am a white guy

I am confident I will be allowed to vote

 

[farce©]

Zen is dumb

And mendacious

 

[UNCBAdookJD]

From 60 years ago.....

Even if race is a social reality, you're telling me laws that ended in the mid 60's means that people with high melanin levels are incapable of getting an ID in 2026?

Have you ever told a higher-melanin level person this belief to their face?

The problem isn’t direct (as often) it’s structural. States in the south have systematically closed DMVs in neighborhoods populated by higher concentrations of people with that higher melanin content. For example:

As it turns out ... Bentley's driver's license closures were racial, after all

US DOT concludes investigation, ALEA folds

www.al.com

That doesn’t make people “incapable” of getting IDs but it does make it much harder, and those that don’t have a car and thus don’t drive wouldn’t go out of their way to get an ID that is inaccessible to them via public transit.

 

[ZenMode]

Maybe you should chat with this lady?

Her situation has nothing to do with the amount of melanin in her skin. It has to do with the fact that she was born at home and never got a birth certificate. That is not unique to people over X amount of melanin.

Yes, there needs to be away to address that situation.

 

[nycfan]