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https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1783814460517335205
conservatives pretending they can do this and the comments are full of wrong answers.
levyathyn
Well, it's worse than the test that was made up to prove blacks were uneducated that, when they had to give the test to white voters, they also failed. Although I imagine this would have been the case here as well, Louisiana never did strike me as the kind of place that would have ever given this test to a white man.
ChickenSnizort
Not mentioned in the comments is that people who's grandfathers were eligible to vote were "grandfathered in', and did not have to take the test.
MyCatIsMissingAnEar
.....okay... I have a BS in engineering and a BA in a foreign language and minors in engineering and a science field. What the fuck is the difference between "draw a line around" and "circle" in the instructions? This is literally meant solely to make you fail for stupid errors in instructions that can be interpreted in different ways.
BigDaddysMeatWagon
To those who tried and got frustrated, that's the idea. Many of the questions make no sense or have multiple answers so they can SAY the black voters were disqualified for not being literate.
glasshouseinarockstorm
She really didn’t get that it wasn’t about being able to do it, it was about it being written so that answers could be argued, huh.
Aelonwy
This test has zero to do with literacy and everything to do with ambiguous directions in order to disqualify on bias.
lifeisadadjoke
I had a 96th percentile on the GMAT (b-school standardized test). This test on it's own is functionally illiterate. As for 'why' it was used, it's even worse. I doubt either candidate would qualify for this one, but holy shit, most people would fail this.
hushpuppyextraordinaire
Write the first letter of the last word if the last word was first
FellaWithUmbrella
‘Person, woman, man, camera, TV’ Republican answer to any test.
ExecutiveProducerWolfDyck
Look, it's not hard. The answer is to murder anyone claiming this isn't bullshit. Then democracy is saved.
itsjustplaid
Fuck you, Louisiana. Retroactively and currently.
Nim449
pianostacatto
Holy fuck, it's basically a logic test. It demonstrates nothing a 5th grader ought to have known in those days such as cause and effect and outside the box thinking when the answer can be found from an alternative work-around.
pianostacatto
But when you think about it... if this is how they prepared 5th graders, then it makes sense. Kids were allowed to work back then. But you have to first make sure they understand the basics. "Twist knob, but only when the light comes on. If the color is smoke gray, then put it into this pile. Do not switch these levers out of order, or else!"
stoutde
Use number 24 as an example. If the person had black skin, then an answer of "radar" would be wrong because held up to a mirror, it would look different, and the answer "bod" would be wrong because it's not a palindrone. "tot" would be wrong because you took more than ten minutes to make it this far on the test.
AyrA
technically, "I" would be a valid answer to that question.
stoutde
No, nope, nope, no, can't have that. You got it wrong!
AisforApple
I decided to try taking this, and I ran out of time with 9 questions to go. Asking a person decipher and answer each question within 20 seconds is insane. Not to mention, does "draw a line around" = "circle"? Does drawing an oval around a word properly count as circling it? Do both "x" and "+" satisfy "a cross"? With the multiple grammatical mistakes, how can we even ensure the test maker/auditor even knows the correct/intended answer?
softspokensatan
i mean we both know the answer was if its a black person fail them if its not let them vote.
IWantedOneOfThoseLongUsernamesTooSoIGotOne
I'm genuinely curious, how did you answer the first question?
AisforApple
I circled the 1, which I justified because it's the number *of* the sentence, not in the sentence. But I failed, because my circle breaks the "nothing more, nothing less" rule in that it encompassed the period after the 1, and because circling is not equivalent to "draw a line around." However, I'm white, so I would have likely "passed."
IWantedOneOfThoseLongUsernamesTooSoIGotOne
Sorry for the slow reply, but yeah. I was thinking they could make it even simpler to fail by saying "the 1 is not part of the sentence, it's the number of the question." Or even "it says draw a *line* around, not draw a *circle*." Of course as a white person, not only would you have passed, you likely wouldn't even have had to take the test in the first place.
Dailywitchery
Make MTG take it before she can go back to work.
seenunseen
Give it to everyone, and republicans will never win another seat
softspokensatan
i wish, truth is republicans would just say anyone white passed and anyone black failed.
Nerdypoo
Some of these make a tiny bit of sense, for having a fine understanding of what the questions mean, like 'write backwards forwards'- the rest are just bonkers timewasters. 10 mins wouldn't be enough for most everyone.
JCBalance
The comma allows for the interpretation that you're supposed to spell forwards backwards.
NeckbeardFarts
Question 7 is primed for a "you drew a t" or "you drew a +" disqualified. Some hanging chad level garbage.
RoYoMi
Or an 'x'
Cinammontoastcrunch
Most of them are designed to have multiple correct answers or a very unclear correct answer so they can just say you're wrong
sirava
That's exactly the point. Make it intimidating and make it subject to interpretation.
GiantSquanchy
Question 21 especially makes me mad. The "correct order" could be ǝʇoʌ or ʌoʇǝ.
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thetossedaside
Where is this being suggested to bring back? By who exactly? Who the fuck is Lauren Chen?
eromitlab
My guess from the shitty hot take and the elonmuskfanboiapp blue check, a professional right-wing asshole. *google search*
eromitlab
Google identifies her as a youtuber with a show on BlazeTV and contributor to TPUSA. Also, Canadian, currently living in Nashville because she apparently hates Trudeau that much.
Fedotia
Toilet Paper USA, shitposting the worst takes to a point we didnt thought possible.
proxy5000
happyrabbitzz
I'm pretty sure I would make at least one mistake trying to complete this in 10 minutes, which totally ignores the poor directions.
ShadusMacAoidh
Yeah, I got through the first page, and am pretty confident I can answer all the questions correctly... OR I can do it in ten minutes... but I don't think I can do both. And yeah, comments are saying there are gotcha questions later on, so maybe even answering them all correctly is dubious, but either way... I'm angry this was a thing. This is designed for failure, and that pisses me off.
notblubber
I'll bet tRump couldn't pass this test.
3Davideo
Same, hell, I'd like to see video of him trying.
happyrabbitzz
Exactly what I was thinking as I was going through it!
BosunMark
b..but.. he's a jeanyus!
Blackfinity
I dunno; "Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV." proved he's a genius /s
Hexidimentional
I dont think biden could either, and that's not a dig at biden or trump, this test is awful
RummageSaleBubbler
@BotDrawA Drumpf failing a literacy test
BotDrawA
@RummageSaleBubbler Here's your drawing of a "Drumpf failing a literacy test"
BotDrawA
@RummageSaleBubbler Here's your (experimental extra) drawing of a "Drumpf failing a literacy test, in style of Robert Hagan"
SaveitforQueenDoppelpoppolus
the issue isn't that the test is impossible; the issue is that the test is ambiguous so whoever is giving the test can always say that someone they don't want to vote got a wrong answer
rh82
First question is impossible. It's gibberish.
IWantedOneOfThoseLongUsernamesTooSoIGotOne
Many of them are doable, but #1 is very obviously written to ensure that the person grading the test could fail them immediately. If that isn't the functional definition of "impossible" I don't know what is.
FallingStar7669
Yes; it is purposefully ambiguous so as to make it impossible for people who you don't want to pass to pass. In other words, impossible.
AndroidSoul
No, the issue is that the test is impossible, with the time limit and the 100% success or you fail condition. Even if it wasn't written like they ran it through Google translate a time or two, there are questions that are explicitly designed to soak the time limit, and nobody doing this blind could possibly parse and complete this accurately in 10 minutes. The correct answers are subjective just in case someone managed to memorize the answers to actually finish within the time limit
OliverOtter
The real issue is it was given only to Black people. Illiterate White people, the Sheriff knew them, "knew" they were literate, and didn't make them take it. Even if a few Black people passed it, enough didn't that it had the desired effect of ensuring their representation didn't count for anything in the electoral results.
spaceminions
Well in addition to being racist, they were also corrupt and petty, so they would give it to people regardless of race if they didn't like the person and thought they could get away with it.
CommunCreator
Actually, this is the origin of the phrase ‘grandfather clause.’ If your grandfather had the right to vote, you didn’t have to take the test.
AyatollahBahloni
"P.D. [East] told the story of the Negro who went to register. The white
man taking his application gave him the standard literacy tests:
“What is the first line of the thirty-second paragraph of the United States
Constitution?” he asked.
The applicant answered perfectly.
“Name the eleventh President of the United States and his entire cabinet.”
The applicant answered correctly. /1
AyatollahBahloni
Finally, unable to trip him up, the white man asked, “Can you read and write?”
The applicant wrote his name and was then handed a newspaper in Chinese to test
his reading. He studied it carefully for a time.
“Well can you read it?”
“I can read the headline, but I can’t make out the body text.”
Incredulous, the white man said: “You can read that headline?" /2
AyatollahBahloni
“Oh, yes, I’ve got the meaning all right.”
“What’s it say?”
“It says this is one Negro in Mississippi who’s not going to get to vote this year.”" - John Howard Griffin, 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑀𝑒 3/3
proxy5000
20. Spell backwards, forwards. DDD
NoNameFred
They then get to decide whether the correct answer should have been "backwards" or "sdarwrof" based on A) which of those matches what you wrote, and B) what colour your skin is…
Raileks
85% sure it would be sdarwrof, seeing as how it would say forward without the s if the question was asking you to spell backwards. Not that any of this is fair. I'm stuck on how to answer #29.
NoNameFred
"Write other in first AND other this and third same"; however, it does not make clear what the distinction between "writing" a word and "printing" it is. And that the "fifth word you write" might actually mean the first word you write in answer to question 25.
LootenetDan
"Spell backwards" is a proper clause, though, that tells someone to literally spell backwards.
RoyDMercer
If this test were given to ALL voters in Louisiana, Trump might get 2 votes.
Targe0
If it was used, there might only be 2 votes. US Education system isn't doing great now days. With a study finding most of America only read to a 6th grade level.
DdCno1
Nope. The entire point of these questions was that the person grading the tests could decide which of the many possible answers are correct, thus excluding "certain people" (wink, wink) they don't want to be voting.
arthurvanhoudt
That much?
EaNasirIsABastard
Let's bring it back, as long as it's for all voters.
Cokey713
Apeofdeath
It's like racism makes people stupid
skwint
Oh! So close!
Targe0
I mean they aren't totally wrong though. Racism sees less funding to areas with higher minority populations, leading to less effective schools. Causing lower education possibilities. So in a very real sense, racism does cause people to be more stupid, because they want the minorities to be less educated.
GnomeDeGuerre
An important element in it is "kicking down". Dumb, poor people may find it easier to kick down on others if they buy into the idea that superficial things makes it ok.
Racism makes it so they don't have to be lowest in the social pyramid.
meganical
Or stupid people feel inferior in intelligence so they have to make themselves feel superior to others in areas they can’t possibly fail, like in race because that takes zero skill and is nearly impossible for them to lose by their own efforts
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ParallelParkingInABurka
Just going by grammar and logic, the heir of whoever created this test is the person writing the questions and storylines for all those employee training videos my company has us do every year. Considering how rage-inducing those are, I can't even imagine how it must have been to deal with something like this when there were actual stakes.
ruferto
ah those storyline-things. sometimes i answered those "wrong" just to for giggles
IrrelevantHandle
I was half enjoying going through this just as an intellectual exercise because I used to dominate at this stupid shit in school. Most of it is doable if you read it carefully, sometimes two or three times, but trying to finish this thing error free in 10 minutes is absurd and just being under a clock is going to cause stress induced mistakes.
AnotherSemanticArgument
I'm pretty confident 12 is definitionally impossible, no? The line has to both originate from, and also be beneath circle two?
IrrelevantHandle
If you start the line on the outer left side of the two, swing under, through the three, and over the four to the top of the five.
AnotherSemanticArgument
Isn't a line that intersects a thing by definition NOT below that thing?
IrrelevantHandle
??? It doesn't intersect, though. It starts on the left side and curves down around the bottom, intersects the three, curves around the top of the four and stops at the five circle.
AisforApple
This was my interpretation:
Madalchemist2018
It is clearly to the left of #2 so double no vote.
PosthumousExile
It passed below circle 3 too though, sorry you can't vote
AisforApple
UnluckyLunkhead
30. What mean?
cleverascanbe
It means you don't get to vote.
softspokensatan
im not 100% sure but i think its like a circle flower but they might say multiple interlocking parts there. 5 circles by definition would have multiple interlocking.
PhailRaptor
Draw 5 circles that all share a singular intersection point. And yes, it is written the way it is on purpose.
Pheehelm
Looks like they accidentally a verb, but given the history of these tests I'm less inclined to extend the benefit of the doubt.
dasklaus
There's mistakes in so many tests, even official ones. I don't want to give them any benefits either but that's tragically normal.
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UnluckyLunkhead
But they wouldn't intersect at all. Not that I've done 5th grade math since 1965.
flarflarf
for the record, you are correct. Concentric circles do not intersect.
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flarflarf
the center is not part of the circle. A circle is a set of points on a plane at a given distance from a point.
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