ACLU thinks Minorities are Stupid

The ACLU is trying to delay the California recall election, on the grounds that old punch card machines put minority voters at disadvantage. Presumably this means that for some reason–presumably, minorities are too stupid to operate punch-card machines as well as whites?–the minority vote will be undercounted. However, if the premise is correct (minorities are stupid), aren’t they better off if their votes are undercounted–for the same reasons that severely retarded people have guardians to make important decisions for them?

The logic of the ACLU’s actions here supports this patronizing, racist view of minorities as helpless dolts. For the ACLU is not an exclusively minority group; its membership is thus more white on average than the minorities they are defending. This implies that whites are better, on average, at protecting the rights of blacks (to use white and black as proxies for majority and minority). But if this is the case–if benevolent, smart whites are the ones who have to look out for their little black wards–why isn’t it good that the white vote counts disproportionately.

And liberals think everyone else is racist. Sigh.

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3:19 pm on August 18, 2003