"If we ignore what he actually said or the logical consequences of what he said, it makes sense."
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Also, as a point of fact, in several Jim Crow states black people were a majority of the population (near 60% in a couple of them as late as 1900, before the Great Migration).
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I swear, I only ever see that guy's tweets when he's being dunked on for an incredibly stupid take. Which is not at all a rare occurrence.
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Also: Black Americans had majorities of the population in at least three southern states when Jim Crow began.
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On the one hand, pure populism does need constraints, but where Mclaughlin is wrong is in how those should work. He thinks it should be by having some undemocratic power structures. But it's better to have robust minority rights protections in law.
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Is he actually saying that a century long scheme to deny a significant proportion of the population from voting through codified racism and terrorist violence is evidence *against letting everybody vote?*
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There were no teachers unions in the South. Right up your alley bro.
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