Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoOutrage as Oklahoma Republican’s bill labels Hispanic people ‘terrorists’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1327arrow-down17
arrow-up1320arrow-down1external-linkOutrage as Oklahoma Republican’s bill labels Hispanic people ‘terrorists’www.theguardian.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoShouldn’t the “and” be in the first statement as well to link them all together? Any person who is of Hispanic *and member of a gang *and Convicted of yada yada yada. The way it is written doesn’t link the first two together. It’s its own statement of law.
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·10 months agoThat’s what the semicolons are for. It’s like saying “red, white, and blue”. You don’t need to say “red and white and blue”.
minus-squareCowlitz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoExcept in this country where the courts can’t read and just makes up whatever it wants. Easier to do the less explicit things are.
Shouldn’t the “and” be in the first statement as well to link them all together?
Any person who is of Hispanic *and
member of a gang *and
Convicted of yada yada yada.
The way it is written doesn’t link the first two together. It’s its own statement of law.
That’s what the semicolons are for. It’s like saying “red, white, and blue”. You don’t need to say “red and white and blue”.
Except in this country where the courts can’t read and just makes up whatever it wants. Easier to do the less explicit things are.