Keeping College Students from Voting

[amanda6035]

Um, didn't think there was anything to address. The quotes was for emphasis. We were talking about college students and the topic got changed to poor people. I was addressing the change in conversation, mmkay? Chill out.

Originally Posted by agzg

Exactly this. Don't think for one second that this is about keeping college kids from voting because they vote liberal. This is about keeping the poors from voting.

It's not "that easy" for everyone to get a driver's license or passport. There are a lot of people out there who don't have one. Assuming everyone should have one (without legally requiring it in general which would be a huge clusterfuck and making it free) comes from a place of relative privilege.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by amanda6035

Um, didn't think there was anything to address. The quotes was for emphasis. We were talking about college students and the topic got changed to poor people. I was addressing the change in conversation, mmkay? Chill out.

Umm..no one was getting worked up, so there is no need to "chill out"

Anyway, I think it was you who initiated the "poor people" conversation:

Originally Posted by amanda6035

Ditto!

Plus, if folks want to talk about dirty campaign tactics... what about bussing "poor people" to the polling stations in exchange for a vote for a particular candidate? "Aw, how sweet, they gave me free transportation so I could vote, but I have to vote for their candidate." Yeah, because THAT's fair.

I asked you to address agzg's post because I was curious to see if you thought there was a difference between bussing poor voters and bussing old voters.

ETA: Actually, it doesn't look like you initiated it, but you did discuss it. My apologies. I am still curious about your opinion
re: the question above.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

I asked you to address agzg's post because I was curious to see if you thought there was a difference between bussing poor voters and bussing old voters.

I think the difference is pretty clear - it's who they vote for.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by amanda6035

Um, didn't think there was anything to address. The quotes was for emphasis.

Quotation marks indicate quotations, not emphasis. Emphasis is indicated by italics (or underlining when an italic font isn't available).

In the context in which you used them, the quotation marks function as scare quotes (much like air quotes) and suggest that while these people are referred to as "poor people," we all know know we're not really talking about poor people.