Note that this attack on Minnesota’s elections was explicitly racist: these bozos dressed in what they thought were Muslim costumes. You might not think that’s a key part of testing an electoral system — but •they• did.
It’s not that they think that people in general are voting who shouldn’t be allowed to vote. It’s that they think that •brown people• are voting who shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
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The Republicans’ nation-wide racist obsession with Minnesota surely stems from an underlying feeling that Minnesota is •supposed to• be white. Other places, like say California or NYC? Oh, whatever, they’re already polluted by the sinister Other, and just need to be contained or beaten into submission. But Minnesota being diverse? Well •that• the right-wingers cannot abide.
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Such racist assumptions about Minnesota — including from the racists who live here, the racists who (for example) murdered George Floyd — severely misestimate this place. It’s complicated and sometimes ugly complicated, as all places are, but the humanist undercurrents here run •very• deep.
ICE, Veritas, I don’t care. Minnesota may be nice, be we are pros, we take democracy seriously, and we are not fucking around.
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