• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    Are they? Are they really?

    Yes they really are. They are U.S. citizens who are disenfranchised based on location.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah, maybe it wasn’t entirely clear there but I was trying to say that they were treated as second class citizens that can pay taxes but can’t vote becit of where they live

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        You do know that has nothing to do with being of Puerto Rican ethnicity, right? It has to do with living on Puerto Rico. You can be a citizen of Indonesian descent who lives on Puerto Rico and you still can’t vote for president. But that person, and all of the other U.S. citizens making up the population of Puerto Rico can just hop on a plane or a boat and come to the continental U.S. (or even Hawaii or Alaska), no passport needed, move there without any immigration issues, and vote in the next presidential election.

        It doesn’t matter what your ethnicity is.

        You also can’t vote for president if you live on American Samoa or Guam.