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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
All of those same strategies and arguments can be applied to BLM. In fact, it might even be easier to effect criminal justice reform.
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You have simply failed to engage in any way with what racism means.
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A huge change in sentiment, and elected officials making policy, could be reached by simply giving felons the right to vote.
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There has been progress on restoring voting rights in many states. Which states do you think won't do it voluntarily? That's right, the ones where it's most needed.
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A targeted effort to give them back the vote
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These efforts are ongoing.
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could provide the difference in a Presidential election, and numerous state elections that have a direct impact on policing and justice administration.
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Which is why they won't happen in many red states. (Well, that and racism)
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You don't frame it as fighting "inequality."
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Again, you have zero business lecturing activists on how to do activism. The one thing I know from peripheral contact with some of them is they have given it way more thought than you or I.
