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Alabama Republicans, under orders of the U.S. Supreme Court to redraw congressional districts to give minority voters a greater voice in elections, rejected calls Monday to craft a second majority-Black district and proposed a map testing the judges’ directive.

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[-] MdRuckus@lemmy.world 127 points 1 year ago

If this doesn't tell you republicans are racist, I don't know what will.

[-] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

I'm not even sure it's that.... "principled"? For lack of a better word. I don't know what the piece of shit version of that word is. But I think this is just them clutching at power any way they can. Being racist is either a non-issue or the asshole cherry on their asshole sundae.

[-] Nihil@lemmy.fmhy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

This tracks. I have some republicans in the family, and they aren’t super racist against conservative voting non-whites. Democrat is a much worse word to them than Black or Mexican.

[-] 5in1k@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Unless they move next door…

[-] RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

So they’re not super racist. Just kind of racist. And only kind of racist to minorities who vote against their own self interests to try and I guess win over said ‘only kind of racist’ family members.

I think you’re in denial about your racist family members and I suspect when you’re not around they’re more than happy to discuss their racist viewpoints amongst each other. Just a guess tho.

[-] Nihil@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

No. They are very racist against minority democrats in front of me. Being a conservative makes someone “one of the good ones”. I’m not justifying or excusing their behavior. Just providing some insight as to their priority ladder of hate.

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