[Spivak]

I can assure you I am as white as they come, my family being a mix of Quebecois and Irish I'm "wears sunscreen in the winter" pale.

I'm at a loss for why you would assume something about my racial background from my view that voting should be made easy and convenient in a democracy. I'll go even further, in addition to being able to vote digitally you should automatically be registered to vote when you establish residency, voting should be compulsory*, and it should be a national holiday. But outside the bigger picture I selfishly want this because I don't want to bother driving to my polling place when I could voted in less time than it took to type this reply.

* I wouldn't have any punishment for not voting, that would be a huge mess. But I would have it on the books in the hopes that people would follow it simply because it's the law.

[tuesdaynight]

English is not my native language, so maybe I'm losing some context. How can that comment not be racist? I'm being genuine. Did something get over my head?

[Spivak]

I don't know either. But it was the first time I'd ever seen this phrasing and searching the internet for it didn't turn up much. So I came up with what I thought the best-faith interpretation of it could be—that due to my (perceived) racial background I was deploying motivated reasoning to advocate for an action that appears neutral but was chosen because it would favor people who share my same political interests.

But I'm not sure that logic is sound even if it was my motivation. Old folks and rural folks would probably benefit most from voting access that wasn't tied to a physical location. So I don't know. I want to expand voting access because our turnout is so low, not because "the right people" aren't voting or whatever nonsense.