some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to News@lemmy.world · 6 months agoHaley Questions if Trump Is ‘Mentally Fit’ After He Confused Her With Pelosiwww.thedailybeast.comexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkHaley Questions if Trump Is ‘Mentally Fit’ After He Confused Her With Pelosiwww.thedailybeast.comsome_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to News@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squareFireTower@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-26 months agoThis could be weaponized as a tool of discrimination to keep minority groups or the impoverished out of office by constructing purposefully confusing questions. Just like the Jim Crow Era laws requiring people pass literacy tests to vote.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months ago This could be weaponized COULD, not WOULD. If you don’t make any rules that the fascists might want to abuse, you don’t make any rules. Your slippery slope fallacy does not invalidate the need to make sure that public officials are fit to carry out their duties.
This could be weaponized as a tool of discrimination to keep minority groups or the impoverished out of office by constructing purposefully confusing questions. Just like the Jim Crow Era laws requiring people pass literacy tests to vote.
COULD, not WOULD.
If you don’t make any rules that the fascists might want to abuse, you don’t make any rules.
Your slippery slope fallacy does not invalidate the need to make sure that public officials are fit to carry out their duties.