http://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/01/31/wapo-seems-to-be-at-a-loss-for-words-when-it-comes-to-what-new-york-dems-are-up-to-can-you-help-them-out/
Here’s an interesting headline from the Washington Post on what’s happening with congressional districts in New York:
The Washington Post ~ New York lawmakers draw redistricting map that boosts Democrats
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/30/redistricting-new-york/?utm_source=twitter&;utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_main
The headline may not seem all that remarkable on its face, but if you think about it a little bit, you might change your mind.
Chad Felix Greene ~ Oh?
Hmmm ...
ConservativeDoc ~ They messed up the headline. There’s a word ...
ArmedEsquire ~ There’s a word for this when Republicans do it that might apply here too.
You mean there’s a word for what New York Dems are doing? What could it be?
Scott Brewer ~ If only we had a term for this ...
Tabellarius ~ Is there a word for describing this phenomenon?
Should we get our dictionaries?
BoJameson ~ Go ahead @washingtonpost. You can say it. It’s called ... gerrymandering.
Sean The Producer ~ So you're saying they gerrymandered the districts. Got it. 👍🏻
WE0209 ~ The word they're looking for is "gerrymandering."
“Gerrymandering” certainly seems like the appropriate word to use here.
Carolina Girl ~ Does it more fairly draw the districts or does it gerrymander them the other way? Inquiring minds want to know, but you never will from this bad headline.
That tweet actually perfectly encapsulates what it is that WaPo is doing. “Fairly draw the districts” is what it’s called when Democrats do it; “gerrymander them the other way” ... that’s Republicans’ M.O.
Scott Norris ~ Twitter told me only Republicans do this.
Ruth Peterson ~ The WaPo always uses the word gerrymandering when referring to Republicans draw redistricting maps - never w/ Democrats. Wonder why?
Yes ... won(D)er what the (D)eal is.
Crass and Unsophisticated ~ I believe the word you’re looking for is gerrymandering. Oh, I completely forgot, this kind of thing is only wrong when Republicans do it. Democrats have never ever ever in a billion years done a single horrible thing.
Guess this is the moral of the story:
Helder Gil ~ Gerrymandering: sometimes it’s bad; sometimes it’s not.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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