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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Yet another exercise in "woke"/DEI pandering
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 22:42:27 -0400
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On 3/17/2025 7:59 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2025 at 1:34:14 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Toronto mayor Olivia Chow is encouraging the idea of adding an
>> indigenous (i.e. Indian or Inuit (formerly Eskimo)) councillor to the
>> Toronto City Council. This individual would be *appointed*, not elected,
>> but still have full voting rights.
>>
>> Brian Lilley points out why this is objectionable just in case it isn't
>> obvious:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsMieSpx-gU [3 minutes]
>>
>> Some of the comments are fun. A few of them propose Buffy Ste. Marie to
>> fill the post; she's only recently admitted that she was born in the US
>> after decades of being honoured as a Canadian aboriginal performer; she
>> was "adopted" by a Cree tribe in Saskatchewan as an adult and used that
>> to obtain various awards and honours in this country.
> 
> This happens in Hawaii, too, and I've never been able to figure out how it has
> survived given how unconstitutional it is.
> 
> Hawaii has seats in the state legislature that are "native only". If you're
> not a Hawaiian native with proof of your pedigree, you literally can't run for
> office to be elected to those seats.
> 
> Imagine if Colorado or Wisconsin had several seats in the state legislature
> reserved for white candidates only. That wouldn't be allowed to stand for a
> millisecond. Yet Hawaii gets away with it. I can only imagine no one has ever
> challenged it because if anyone *had* challenged it, there's no way any court
> could allow it given the Constitution and federal statutes and civil rights
> jurisprudence against it.
> 
> The only other way I can see this being allowed is under the moviePig 14.5
> Amendment-- otherwise known as the Seems To Amendment.

You -- seem to -- know more about the Amendment than moviePig does. 
Please do elaborate...