# What happened to Bricker? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249 **Category:** The BBQ Pit **Created:** [August 25, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249 "2018-08-25T09:51:59Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 154
### Author: ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet) #### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/154 "2018-08-30T21:31:58Z")
Also: > [@NC Federal House Districts unconstitutionally gerrymandered](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nc-federal-house-districts-unconstitutionally-gerrymandered/806306/25): > > > [@](#): > > > > Now, it just so happens that the overwhelming bias of our current voting system skews against African Americans, in various well-documented ways. So a lot of the work in the direction of fairness will mean moving toward more voting power for African Americans. But that doesn’t specifically mean we should engage in the sort of finger-on-the-scale you’re suggesting; rather, we should make sure that our systems are both accurate and precise enough that they stop wasting the votes of anyone. > > That might increase Democratic wins. > > Lucky break, eh? Man this post is fucked in ways I can’t even start with. Why yes - if a racial group overwhelmingly votes for one party, then if you stop disenfranchising that group, that party may benefit from it. If you care about the benefit more than you care about the disenfranchising, you’re either a moron or a monster, take your pick. **Bricker** , you _do_ realize that black people get to vote too, right? Even if you don’t like the fact that they don’t vote the way you vote? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249)._