@2something@transfem.social
Hi, I'm 2something. I like talking about math, musical theater, and webcomics. I am aroace, trans, enby, autistic and anosmic.
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2020-08-29
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Yeah. I haven't read the New Testament, but the Torah is pretty dang clear that God wanted the Jews to genocide an indigenous nation and thought owning slaves was acceptable.
Cats are often entertained by simple things, such rolling a small ball underneath furniture and then trying to get it out.
As a sophisticated ape, I require far more complex forms of entertainment such as watching a cat rolling a small ball underneath furniture and then trying to get it out.
For independence day, here's a reminder that the Founding Fathers did not grant slaves 3/5ths of a vote. They gave slaves 0 votes.
The Virginia delegates to the Constitutional Convention wanted to give slave-owners an extra vote for every human they owned. They knew that would sound bad, so they concocted the House of Representatives.
The House gives states a number of representatives in proportion to the state's population: not the number of eligible voters in the state!
Slaves, free people of color, women, teenagers, children, mentally ill people, and poor people all couldn't vote in the first congressional elections. But they all counted as people on the census, which meant they gave more representation in Congress to the voters in their state.
The debate that led to the so-called "3/5ths compromise" wasn't over how many votes slaves got. Everyone at the convention agreed slaves couldn't vote. The dispute was how many de facto votes slave-owners should get for each slave they owned. James Madison and the other southern slave-owners wanted to count slaves as whole people on the census to give themselves more representation. Delegates from the northern states didn't want to count slaves at all. The "compromise" was to give slave-owners 3/5ths of an effective vote per slave.
Madison's goal was eventually realized, long after his death, by the prison system. 48 states today prohibit prisoners from voting, but still count prisoners as whole people on the census, granting free people in those states more representation.
This post is a response to
a) People who say the Senate is anti-democratic, but that the House is democratic. Both of them are rigged by design.
b) White "liberals" who "joke" about the 3/5ths compromise in ways that imply they think slaves could vote.