re: #223 iceweasel

Spare, the problem for Tancredo is that adding all the context you’d like does nothing to exonerate him from the charge of racism for those remarks— the opposite, especially when one looks at the history of literacy tests in the US.

The context does not exhonerate Tancredo…it is precisely what convicts him and his suggestion.
My point was that allowing functional illiterates to vote is an utterly unavoidable and necessary evil of a democracy, not a source of national pride.