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Seeing as the quoted post is from Matt Walsh, I'm a little concerned about what would end up in his definition of an 8th grade civics exam.
(That's page 1 of 3, BTW, just in case anybody thought the 10-minute time limit sounded easy.)
This is one of the tests they used to disenfranchise black voters before, isn’t it?
Matt Walsh is a racist POS.
Yep.
I mean... I'm not a native English speaker, so maybe that's why I'm having a hard time here? But there's just too many things that throw me off completely.
No, it's tricky for native English speakers too, and that's the point. It's a literacy test that was given to black people in Louisiana in order to justify taking away their right to vote
It's intentionally ambiguous so that the officials administering it always have an excuse to fail you if they don't like the look of you (i.e. you're not white).
Wasn't this except for white peiple because of the grandfather clause?
The confusion was the point. It was used as a test to disenfranchise black voters 🙃
It was literally designed to keep Black people from voting.
It's not supposed to be passable.
I had the exact same comments. The fifth one mentions drawing a circle so they do know what that is as opposed to a line around something. The first question is just nonsensical to me.
3 pages of this? I'd say it's a test designed to fail people with ADHD
And dyslexic people
maybe it's my ESL, but draw a line around…?
is that circling something?
Question 5 says circling though…
It's intentionally ambiguous so that the officials administering it always have an excuse to fail you if they don't like the look of you (i.e. you're not white).
In my gcse class my teacher made us do this test when we were studying civil rights. No one passed it.
Iirc, when it asks you to draw a line around something you fail the question if you draw a circle around it.
That's how deliberately impossible these tests were. No one can pass it without looking at the answers first.
I would love to have some contemporary material discussing this, like the officials who designed it, or the campaigners trying to get rid of it