“If you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear.”
  • SacralPlexus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 天前

    I don’t think it’s that “three fifths” is the only bad part per se, it just gets referenced a lot because it is a really indefensible example of how enslaved people were considered less than a person. So much so that here it is codified as a fraction of a person. Very in your face sort of language.