You don’t have to be Intentionally malicious to be racist

Saying all Asians look alike is a well known historically racist thing to say

Highly disagree

Disagree with reality

Yeah that’s common place these days hence these sham hearings

Ever consider that maybe in general, some people really can’t tell a difference.

I can’t

What about all black people look the same because they are all black. ?

If u say that u will get fire from ur job

Again we are talking about people looking for a differences not jogging by someone quickly

You think someone looking for differences wouldn’t be able to tell two individual Asians apart

@james j the same as cops in USA where all black people look the same when they looking for someone.. and people have said that's systemic racism

Anyone else notice a pattern in these "hearings" when the Elite Strike force is criticizing precincts and counties (that are home to predominantly people of color), they showcase a person of color to bring historically pejorative racial stereotypes into the conversation? In this case, they bring in a person of color (Indian decent) to introduce the possibility of racial bias when attempting to identify someone of another race. In MI, they had Dr. Travers who repeatedly said the people of Detroit were too "lazy" to balance their precincts that were only out o balance a total of 441 votes in a county that cast 1m+ votes. I will have to check the other Rudy shows, but I remember thinking the same thing on another one....

The entire claim she is making is the need for ID to vote. That you really have no idea who someone is without an ID.

Based on the idea that you can’t tell the difference between Asians which is a dumb racist thing to say

It’s not racist. I honestly can’t tell a lot of differences

@thebrodys, you just advanced to level 6!

If you are looking for differences and can’t see the difference between two different Asians you would be blind @thebrodys

Oh lordy, I made a mistake not looking in here the last hour.

@TaLoN132 have u seen any African American making a statement, poll workers

And back to her point which was about the need for ID to vote, because there are so many similarities in looks, an ID to vote is necessary

Among other things

Also I have never heard anyone ever say all Indians look alike , trumps legal team just needed to slip a anti China reference in there somewhere . It’s just part of their disinformation campaign

To suggest that is also racist, apparently

@thebrodys again based on the idea you can’t tell Asians apart which is the stupid racist part

To be fair, there is a known issue that people are more likely to accurately identify someone in a lineup if they are of the same race. This bias has even been identified in facial recognition software where the success rate of facial identification is skewed toward the race of the programmer. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/12/19/facial-recognition-study-finds-results-biased-race-gender-and-age/2704291001/

@TaLoN132 I guess that would be argument to hire more Chinese people at polling places

I'm not following you... Dr. Travers is an American of African descent. She testified as an expert on MI elections.

I acknowledge there are probably some minor differences, it generally Asians do look extremely similar

Requiring an ID to vote is an absolute necessity

@TaLoN132 i meant the people that signed the affidavit regular people working as poll workers not paid experts

Which was the ladies entire point

I’m sure this has already been posted, but

https://mobile.twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/1334573900328538114

@thebrodys you would be blind to say you can’t tell the difference. Also how come no one ever advocates for government paid ids for people that everyone gets for free when they turn 18

It's just not fair for her to have brought it up in that context. I don't believe that she is a sociologist testifying that ID's should be required because it increases the likelihood that someone of a different race might be able to vote multiple times because the poll worker is of a different race.

@thebrodys i can make a fake id. And vote for someone else .

IMO, unless there is a solid explanation... that looks pretty incriminating

Per the same logic, it would be harder for someone to tell if the person in the photo was the same person in front of them.

Alright, I'm going to explain this here, and I hope everyone stops calling each other racist.

Races have a preferential ability to distinguish one another apart because they are **that race**. It's harder for a white person to distinguish differences in the faces of other races, and vise-versa. This is backed up by science, it's a literal fact. This is called cross-race bias or own-race bias.

There is nothing inherently racist or malevolent in this, it's just the ability to process different information for different races, as they focus on other kinds of differences than the inherent race you are.

Second: It is not a fact that races of one type are less prone to be unique than races of another type. To suggest this is mildly racist in my opinion. You don't have to suggest they're inferior for something to be judgmental and prejudice. I don't believe I've seen **any** science suggesting that people of a certain race are less distinguishable to each other rather than outside races, and if there were, I'd point to the fact that one race sees another race differently than they see themselves.

@Beth they say it’s racist because minorities in rural places tend to be poorer and rely on public transportation or being unable to get time off work to get anything involved paper work done. It’s racist in effect

@Maw racism does not require malicious intent also I advocated for hiring more Chinese people in polling places of statistically they would be better at screening for Asians