it's a nice idea but you know they used to have this, and the test was basically just a list of things white people were more likely to know

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joe_mamba 4 hours ago | parent [-]

IDK, I'm not from a country that did stuff like that, so don't try to pin some original sin from the US history on me. I'm from a pretty homogenous country with no racial issues.

Now are you saying only whites will be able to understand 5th grade physics and nobody else? Or that whites can't be stupid too?

Personally I don't care about your skin color, or other factors, if you're THAT stupid, I don't want you deciding the future of our country, period, since you're putting everyone in danger.

If you can't pass 5th grade physics, you're not fit to be voting on the country's nuclear energy policy, simple.

	▲	infecto 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You could replace skin color with any attribute and it will probably happen. You can see it play out across the world time and time again, in any type of downturn or bad luck people on average find it easier to blame another group than themself. Take this a step forward and you get momentum to carve requirements that would exclude that group. Oh you want to participate in voting? You need to be able to list the Qur’anic commandments to be able to vote or whatever your flavor of restriction is.
	▲	nancyminusone 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		No, they are saying that your so-called idea has already been tried, but what actually happened was that <insert majority> who already had control set it up so <insert majority> could vote easily while <insert minority> could not. Could be race, could be something else. There is no such thing as an "objective test" for your case, because someone somewhere would need to determine it is objective. Who verifies that person, and who verifies the people who verify them?
	▲	infecto 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> IDK, I'm not from a country that did stuff like that, so don't try to pin some original sin from the US history on me. I'm from a pretty homogenous country with no racial issues. Also going back on this comment. What country are you from? I have always found that the US gets the short stick when in reality these problems have happened everywhere. Usually the countries that think they have no problems are because they are homogenous.
	▲	vrganj 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The concern isn't that only whites will be smart enough. The concern is that the current power structure will use this as a convenient way to bias the voter pool in its favor through strategic selection of questions.