Tea Klux Klan speaker got applause for suggesting we bring back

[brewens]

a literacy test for voting. Former Congressman Tom Cancredo also claimed it was illiterate people responsible for Obama being elected.
I would be willing to bet the majority of illiterate voters in most elections vote Republican.
On Rachel Maddow today.

[niyad]

1. that cretin once was an elected member of congress. pathetic

[av8rdave]

2. Let's face it: Those people's version of democracy is....

Everyone as ignorant as they are and thinks just like them gets to vote.

[bluestateguy]

3. Why did most postgraduate voters pick Obama?

Usually literacy is a requirement for a postgraduate degree.

[galileoreloaded]

4. Tu Tux Klan is funnier, and marginalizes just as well.......n/t

[provis99]

5. odd thing about literacy tests, and how they worked.

In the South, when a white person wanted to vote, they tested their literacy by having them write their name. When a black person wanted to vote, they tested their literacy by having them translate passages from Latin, and then write essays on what the passages meant.

The point never was to ensure voters were literate, but to make sure blacks couldn't vote. And thats the kind of literacy test Tea Baggers want, too.

[EFerrari]

9. That's right. How many bubbles in a bar of soap. They weren't literacy tests

it was voter disenfrachisement.

[Walk away]

6. Would that be in English? It sounds like these freaks will do anything...

to negate the Spanish speaking voter. They know that their racist teabaggers are scaring non-English speakers away from the Puke Party for ever so why not just take their votes away?

[left of center]

7. no joke here, but out of 7 Republicans in my family, maybe

1 could actually pass a basic civics test and maybe 4 could pass a literacy test. If such a things were passed, many conservative Republican voting folk would not be allowed to vote!

Oh yeah, the 1 Repub that would pass the civics and literacy test with flying colors is an aunt who is a liberal Repub, being more liberal than most Dems! She votes that way more out of tradition than anything else- still voting for the party of Lincoln!!!

[KonaKane]

8. Great idea actually. If you think about it.

How many Rethugs and 'baggers are going to make it to the voting booth if education, intelligence and awareness are required?

[Posteritatis]

11. Except literacy tests are designed to be unpassable

Historically they usually had a pass grade of 100%, and included questions like "who was the third attorney general of the United States" or whatnot. If such tests were implemented, you can be damn sure there'd be pressure to take them that far and pick and choose who had to take them.

[KonaKane]

17. I was half joking, of course. However...

if the litmus test ever became education and intelligence, I'd sure like to think we'd have the edge on that. And that is not elitist thinking, that is the observation of one who has been dealing with those mean spirited dullards for almost 50 years.

[Swamp Rat]

10. Ok, bring them back but let ME write the test.

Test (for caucasians only):

1. Quis est vestri nomen?

2. Quam vetus es vos?

3. Qua erant vos prognatus?

4. Quisnam est current praesieo?

5. Es vos a bardus vel eram vestri matris a canis quod abbas a sus?


All other people:

1. Are you an American citizen?

2. Are you 18 years old or older?

3. Are you registered to vote?

[lonestarnot]

12. Si senor with a tilda.

:P

[Swamp Rat]

13. ¡Órale hermana!

~ If I write the test, todo los gueros no se pasan. :D

[lonestarnot]

14. No juego con migo nunca tambien!

:hug:

[Swamp Rat]

16. Entonces, tenga un corazón de mi.

:hug: :loveya:

[lonestarnot]

21. te amo Swampie

:loveya: :toast:

[a la izquierda]

20. sweet, thank you mom for making me take Latin...

[Dinger]

15. "Tea Klux Klan" That Could Catch On

I like it.:evilgrin:

[brewens]

19. I stole it from Olbermann in case anyone didn't see Countdown last night. n/t

[Suji to Seoul]

18. Fine. . .right wing assclown get to read "Beowulf."

Or "Sir Gwain and the Green Knight."