Being a strong proponant of literacy I am vehement against your statment that someone can be truelly informed without being able to read. Oh wait.. they saw it on TV... Yes, that Must mean its true. No. At least being ble to read they can hunt down varied sources to try and prove or disprove ideals and candidates... something you can NOT get from TV or other avenues.
I do poo poo the statment that any literacy test is somehow classist and factiony... Perhaps some WERE made that way. That does not mean all are inherantly "fill in the blank". There can independent peoples who make out the "tests", that are simple reading and writing and basic knowledge that any reasoned peron should know. And if that is too much ....
If that is the case then, lets simplify it and make all eligle citiznes have to answer the SAME questions as incoming new citizens to this country to aquire this right to vote. IS that "fill in the blank" ist...> No. That is demanding that our citizens know just as much as what we expect out of immigrants, which sadly the majority of born citizens do not.
I do agree that military service should be an automatic.
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Re: before someone is given the privilege
Date: 2007-01-17 10:31 am (UTC)Being a strong proponant of literacy I am vehement against your statment that someone can be truelly informed without being able to read. Oh wait.. they saw it on TV... Yes, that Must mean its true. No. At least being ble to read they can hunt down varied sources to try and prove or disprove ideals and candidates... something you can NOT get from TV or other avenues.
I do poo poo the statment that any literacy test is somehow classist and factiony... Perhaps some WERE made that way. That does not mean all are inherantly "fill in the blank". There can independent peoples who make out the "tests", that are simple reading and writing and basic knowledge that any reasoned peron should know. And if that is too much ....
If that is the case then, lets simplify it and make all eligle citiznes have to answer the SAME questions as incoming new citizens to this country to aquire this right to vote. IS that "fill in the blank" ist...> No. That is demanding that our citizens know just as much as what we expect out of immigrants, which sadly the majority of born citizens do not.
I do agree that military service should be an automatic.