There is a reason we don't let minors sign contracts or hold them responsible for criminal activity the same as with adults. Astounding how dumb they can be.

My 13 yr old daughter just gave a “Ted talk” at her school about raising the voting age cos teens are dumb. I’m kinda starting to agree with her...

The photo you attached in the OP looks photo-shopped wit the black letters, and reading the article, it seems to support it. Girl said she didn't notice the highlighted letters of the slur at first. Still dumb thing to do regardless of how it appeared.

But I guess circulating a doctored picture to make it visually more shocking is standard these days.

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The photo you attached in the OP looks photo-shopped wit the black letters, and reading the article, it seems to support it. Girl said she didn't notice the highlighted letters of the slur at first. Still dumb thing to do regardless of how it appeared.

But I guess circulating a doctored picture to make it visually more shocking is standard these days.

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You bring up a good point. The "font" for the black letters looks like a digital font, whereas every other letter is obviously handwritten. I bet the original placard that she is holding looks nothing like that. Now the question is did the guy in the photo go in and do that, or did someone else?

Go to the dollar store and get party stencils, they could be pasted on. Plus the "Bianca you are racist... blah blah".. these two are first-class morons.

Local story just up the hill from me. As Duffy said “it’s Palos Verdes”, pretty racist and exclusive, these stories pop up all the time. They don’t like outsiders up there

I’ll take the bet that this is fake. Easy money

I read an interesting take on this last night. Essentially it boiled down to, “Let it vary by state, and have the voting age be the same as the minimum age that you can be tried as an adult.”
The author that I was reading stated that some states will allow someone as young as 8 years old to be tried as an adult (though I’ve not confirmed this.
I get it though. You don’t tell a ten year old, “you are old and responsible enough in this court to be considered an adult,” and then turn around a 17 year old at the voting booth.
And if you really think teenagers are not intelligent enough to be voting, then raise the age to be tried as an adult.

I’ll admit, the idea has flaws, but it’s an interesting concept of making sure things are fair and equal.

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Sooooo. The original sign says “Nxxxxx” but the ink isn’t as dark, and it’s more “shocking” because you think someone photoshopped it.

That was your point? Why isn’t it shocking enough as you think it originally appeared?

That's a dangerous slope to navigate. You can't really use "dumbness" as a criteria to exclude people from voting, or we'd be excluding wide swaths of the population:

Are you going to age out of voting eligibility in your 80's?
Should you have to pass an IQ test?
A civics test?
Political correctness test?
Felony convictions?
Drug screens?

There would be nothing left of the democratic party.

OK, so you are in fact saying it's a fake. I.e. someone else photoshopped the sign to make the kid look bad.

I still take that bet. It's pretty clear form the sign and spacing.

I am not saying it's fake for sure, i'm asking the question, b/c it looks doctored to me. It may be real, exactly as we see it.

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Maybe it's the screens I'm viewing it on (phone and laptop) but I'm not seeing where the pic looks shopped/doctored. Just looks like (as somebody - Ripple? - mentioned above) they took cut-out black letters and pasted them over the appropriate letters on the sign to emphasise them.

I read an interesting take on this last night. Essentially it boiled down to, “Let it vary by state, and have the voting age be the same as the minimum age that you can be tried as an adult.”
The author that I was reading stated that some states will allow someone as young as 8 years old to be tried as an adult (though I’ve not confirmed this.
I get it though. You don’t tell a ten year old, “you are old and responsible enough in this court to be considered an adult,” and then turn around a 17 year old at the voting booth.
And if you really think teenagers are not intelligent enough to be voting, then raise the age to be tried as an adult.

I’ll admit, the idea has flaws, but it’s an interesting concept of making sure things are fair and equal.

I read an interesting take on this last night. Essentially it boiled down to, “Let it vary by state, and have the voting age be the same as the minimum age that you can be tried as an adult.” The author that I was reading stated that some states will allow someone as young as 8 years old to be tried as an adult (though I’ve not confirmed this. I get it though. You don’t tell a ten year old, “you are old and responsible enough in this court to be considered an adult,” and then turn around a 17 year old at the voting booth. And if you really think teenagers are not intelligent enough to be voting, then raise the age to be tried as an adult. I’ll admit, the idea has flaws, but it’s an interesting concept of making sure things are fair and equal.