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Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter Thursday, October 26, 2006 As the Jim Crow Flies Ann Coulter doesn't want you to vote. Unless, of course, you're a wealthy white male conservative. Think that's an exaggeration? If it is, consider that it's driven by Ann's recent re-assertion that we should institute a poll tax and a literacy test to qualify people to cast ballots. Combine that with her statements about women and their alleged inability to understand money -- which, naturally, means they shouldn't have a say in who runs the country -- and it's pretty clear that she thinks a reversion to the days when white male landowners made up the entire electorate would be the best thing that could happen to us as a society. I mean, never mind that this is a DEMOCRACY. You know, the political structure we claim to be spreading around the world? Never mind the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Never mind that if George W. Bush had suggested that we make the Iraqi people PAY to vote he would have been reviled throughout the world as a fascist. (Oh, right -- that already happens.) Should we all be informed before we vote? Yes, in an ideal world, that is EXACTLY how it would work. But we don't live in an ideal world. Thankfully, we live in a messy, hard-to-navigate, interesting one -- in which none of us is ever as up-to-speed as we need to be. That doesn't mean we shouldn't get our say. And if you think there's no racism or economic elitism in Ann's statements, you're ... well, let's be nice and say you're simply naive. Ann Coulter knows full well that the rate of illiteracy among minorities and the poor (often the same group) is far higher than it is among those of us who are white and have some disposable income. And that's not to the shame of the poor. It's to the shame of the rest of us. It's bad enough our society is so oppressive to the disenfranchised that a climb out of poverty is a longshot. Now we shouldn't let poor people vote? That's not merely contemptible. It's disgusting. And if Ann Coulter thinks it's just funny to say such thing, if she simply dismisses it as a joke, then she'd better read up a bit on what constitutes humor. 0 Comments:Previous Posts
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