Black voter registration effort launched at ‘Black Panther’ screenings

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That doesn’t follow. I doubt they are preventing white movie attendees from registering to vote if they so desire. If a group set up a voter registration table at Captain America, I’d like to hope they wouldn’t want to prevent black theatre goers from registering.
 
Why Captain America? Because he wears a red, white and blue suit. Really he is just a character in a bunch of characters one who happens to be green. These are fun movies, a little hero worship.
 
So they just picked the Black Panther movie and only that movie to register Black voters (a racist goal regardless) randomly?
 
This isn’t actually a racist goal. Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another. This is simply demographic targeting – if women were underrepresented in the voting rolls, it would be like deciding to target a “chick flick” for a registration drive. In this case, the reality is that black citizens are underrepresented, and this is a movie more likely to be attended by black moviegoers.

You’re making it sound as if it’s somehow nefarious to get people to register to vote.
 
So White people can make an effort to register White voters at a movie? I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t be allowed. The property owner wouldn’t let it happen because the liberals and their media would be all over the ‘White suprmacists’ trying to register White voters.

It is racist. It is just the kind allowed and promoted by sadly far too many people.
 
No. They are registering voters who are attending a movie. Given the nature of the movie, it is likely that most of the viewers will be black. Since they are underrepresented, the group that is trying to increase registration among black people is using this venue to promote voter registration.

If they turn away white people who attempt to register to vote, then there’s a problem. But there is nothing to indicate that’s the case.

Again, regardless of skin color, why exactly is it nefarious to get people to register to vote?
 
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Given the nature of the movie, it is likely that most of the viewers will be black
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Why would more Blacks attend this particular movie? Did they make the movie for Blacks? That would be racist. Is it because so many characters are Black? That would also be racist.
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Again, regardless of skin color, why exactly is it nefarious to get people to register to vote?
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Nothing wrong with registering people to vote. Absolutely wrong to target registering a race of people because that is racist.
 
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Everyone else.
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Nobody is being discriminated against. You are perfectly free to go buy a ticket to see this movie, and register to vote at the same time.

And it isn’t just African-Americans who are seeing this moving. It is, or will be when all the money is counted up, a blockbuster, and it takes more than a mainly African-American audience to make a blockbuster.
 
No the groups registering voters are discriminating by targeting Blacks. Would you defend White racists who want to register White people to vote?
 
Explain how targeting a demographic to get them to register to vote is asserting the superiority of one race over the other (racism).

If someone wants to register people to vote at showings of the latest Disney movie (thus targeting parents of young children), more power to them. Demographic marketing isn’t racism – unless the white people who want to register to vote are turned away. And there is nothing to indicate that’s in the cards.
 
This does happen all the time. During the last election, rural white potential voters were targeted by the Republicans for voter registration drives. There’s nothing wrong with trying to get people you think are more likely to vote for you to go to the polls. It only becomes a problem if you turn people away. Do you have any indication at all that is going to happen?
 
So you are telling me if a group wants to register White people to vote you’d have no problem with that?
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Demographic marketing isn’t racism
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Sure it is if that demographic is race. To divide people by race is racism.
 
You sure have some great concern for the plight of the White Man.
 
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This does happen all the time. During the last election, rural white potential voters were targeted by the Republicans for voter registration drives.
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What is your evidence that White people were targeted for voter registration by the Republicans?
 
Rhubarb said:
This is a great thing. Encouraging more people to take part in their civic duties is good.
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I think it’s great so long as it remains bi-partisan in it’s focus. WW2 propoganda was about patriotism, not party affiliation.

Perhaps we need to develop patriotic messaging that is still deemed central to both parties.
 
Agreed. I’m just gobsmacked. This seems like a no-brainer – voter registration is good, regardless of skin color, chicken preference, what movie you’re attending … I don’t even understand how this could possibly have a negative connotation.
 
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