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**XarokLasa** · 05-11-2012, 04:42 PM

If he doesn't know about the Republican Party's very, very long history of voter suppression in the US then he just doesn't want to know. There is a ton of information out there and it has been covered to death by the media for the last half century as have their recent voter suppression efforts.

Silly assumptions about a person from Australia who may not have a clue what you're talking about.

Reminds me of the articles on how an Aussie comedy show putting on black facepaint for a skit show was racist. Memo: Australians live halfway accross the world and do not know everything there is to know about American politics. What is offensive in the Deep South is not offensive to Australians.

Point being, we just don't have that shared base of cultural-historical knowledge you assume we have. Sure, I've watched tons of American tv shows and I know that American tv writers despise Republicans. But that doesn't establish much.

Yes, I've read a few books on American history--which happened to document rampant voter fraud by Democrats in the Deep South during Jim Crow and Tammany Hall, by the way, along with Democrats like FDR who cleaned up politics. As a matter of fact I have not heard much about voter fraud perpetrated by Republicans at all. And mind you, the last history I read was by a Roosevelt Democrat (or at any rate a historian quite sympathetic to FDR)-Hugh Brogan's Penguin History of the USA.

So again, provide me an example of Republican-sponsored voter fraud legislation and I'll happily take it on board.

05-11-2012, 04:42 PM	#11
XarokLasa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 577 Senior Member	If he doesn't know about the Republican Party's very, very long history of voter suppression in the US then he just doesn't want to know. There is a ton of information out there and it has been covered to death by the media for the last half century as have their recent voter suppression efforts. Silly assumptions about a person from Australia who may not have a clue what you're talking about. Reminds me of the articles on how an Aussie comedy show putting on black facepaint for a skit show was racist. Memo: Australians live halfway accross the world and do not know everything there is to know about American politics. What is offensive in the Deep South is not offensive to Australians. Point being, we just don't have that shared base of cultural-historical knowledge you assume we have. Sure, I've watched tons of American tv shows and I know that American tv writers despise Republicans. But that doesn't establish much. Yes, I've read a few books on American history--which happened to document rampant voter fraud by Democrats in the Deep South during Jim Crow and Tammany Hall, by the way, along with Democrats like FDR who cleaned up politics. As a matter of fact I have not heard much about voter fraud perpetrated by Republicans at all. And mind you, the last history I read was by a Roosevelt Democrat (or at any rate a historian quite sympathetic to FDR)-Hugh Brogan's Penguin History of the USA. So again, provide me an example of Republican-sponsored voter fraud legislation and I'll happily take it on board.
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