slothrop@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoThe Supreme Court will soon decide if only Republicans are allowed to gerrymanderarchive.isexternal-linkmessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
arrow-up164arrow-down1external-linkThe Supreme Court will soon decide if only Republicans are allowed to gerrymanderarchive.isslothrop@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square24linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
minus-squareAdamEatsAss@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoLatino isn’t a race. It’s anyone from Latin America. It’s an ethnicity.
minus-squareKabaka@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoThe applicable laws protect “language minorities” or discuss “race, color, or national origin.” The race vs ethnicity argument isn’t legally relevant since the scope is broader than that.
minus-squaretheolodis@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoAren’t Latinos mostly white (christian) US-Americans?
minus-squaregustofwind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoThat may be so but it’s a race category of the US census so for legal purposes it’s a race
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoProblem is, we keep getting racists with power, often because other racists vote them into power. We should do something about racists.
minus-squarearamis87@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoI’m not sure the current court has the integrity to understand that
Latino isn’t a race. It’s anyone from Latin America. It’s an ethnicity.
The applicable laws protect “language minorities” or discuss “race, color, or national origin.” The race vs ethnicity argument isn’t legally relevant since the scope is broader than that.
Aren’t Latinos mostly white (christian) US-Americans?
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That may be so but it’s a race category of the US census so for legal purposes it’s a race
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Problem is, we keep getting racists with power, often because other racists vote them into power.
We should do something about racists.
I’m not sure the current court has the integrity to understand that