re: #105 Spare O’Lake

Damn it, you’re absolutely right. But still, her use of the term was inappropriate. There is nothing innately racist about Tancredo’s suggestion that civic literacy be a requirement of voting. It was the context that made the idea smack of racism or at least elitism. My personal objection to the concept is that in practice it would be was unworkable and open to abuse.

FTFY. There’s nothing hypothetical about the perniciousness of literacy tests.