Hacker News Reader

Wyoming has 16k native americans. California has 762k native americans (if you agree with self-id, which I don't). Your friend clearly must be in favor of disenfranchising these native americans if she thinks her Wyoming vote should count for 67 native american votes in California.

In general, I don't find the idpol defense of 67x relative voting power for Wyoming's particularly compelling.

View on HN

If you could read you'd see (A) I didn't refer to her as a friend and (B) I didn't mention her political affiliation. In fact your assumption is wrong.

sure, just using friend colloquially. but on b, i think pretty clearly she is articulating an argument for disproportionate representation?

It wasn't a very political conversation but yes it could be used that way. I'll say this though. Isn't that what Native Americans need? They are in fact a tiny percent.

no, i don’t think we should move towards some sort of race-based confessional system. minority rights, sure - but the color of your skin should not impact your vote share.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com