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    Default Re: Could you pass the Alabama Voter Literacy Test?

    Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
    Either way it's a literacy test made by illiterate people. If it takes a German to tell you that your English literacy test has a double "the" in question 25 and is missing a "have" in question 30 (Just the ones I saw glancing over it, there might be more) then you are hardly literate yourself.
    "Paris in the the spring" is actually a popular optical illusion - it's meant to trip you up if you're not careful as it's easy to miss the second "the". I think most people who didn't learn english as their first language will naturally be a little more careful when using it, hence you noticed the trick very easily.

    But... yeah... otherwise it's a poorly-worded and ambiguous test at best. Really sad that this sort of thing was used to present a false equality. Equality was never really about equal treatment, rather more about equal opportunity. It's nice to know that this is in the past though - makes me wonder where the more developed societies will be in the future. I think we're kind of socially stagnated until humans bind a little more into a homogeneous society. I swear we need to become robots - it's the only way forward, not backward. Upwards, not forward.

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