• Dharma Curious (he/him)
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    2910 days ago

    I haven’t read the article yet (sneaking Lemmy time at work), but this reminds of the literacy tests they used to use for voting in the US for black folks

    • @Hobo@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Exactly what popped into my head too. They also had questions that were ambiguous. “What’s the big staircase in Rome?” doesn’t really have a single correct answer much like many of the literacy tests in the Jim Crow south.