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Gerrymandering: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Name: Gerrymandering: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Description: A Last Week Tonight episode segment in which John Oliver explains gerrymandering, how lawmakers reshape voting districts to shift political power. It uses humor and examples such as oddly shaped districts.

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1 HN user recommended this commentary in 1 different month between 2017 and 2020.

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1 strong recommendation 1 citation 1 critical HackerTube score 1.5

HN cites it as an entertaining, fact-based explainer of gerrymandering tactics, though one commenter criticizes it as inconsistent.

A Last Week Tonight episode segment in which John Oliver explains gerrymandering, how lawmakers reshape voting districts to shift political power. It uses humor and examples such as oddly shaped districts.

Pull quote: “I highly recommend the John Oliver explanation” (HN, 2018)

Also tagged: gerrymandering, redistricting, john oliver, us politics, voting districts

What Hacker News said

3 labeled comments from the HN archive; up to 20 are kept per video, favoring different commenters. Each one links back to the original thread.

Strongly recommends tajen July 2018 under Cities don't have to offer huge subsidies to companies like Apple and Amazon

Humorous, fact-based explanation of gerrymandering tactics.

For those unfamiliarwith gerrymandering, I highly recommend the John Oliver explanation, a humorist of actual facts, showing maps and tactics of politicians that are borderline criminal. [this video]

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Citations, criticism and jokes

Cites it cjlarose April 2017 under Gerrymandering Is Illegal, but Only Mathematicians Can Prove It

Episode featuring Illinois earmuff district.

[Illinoi's 4th congressional district][1] was called the "earmuff" district because of its usual shape. It joined two predominately latino communities with a narrow strip of the I-294. But not all weirdly shaped districts are bad. Between the two latino communities in that area, there is a predominately African-American community. By joining two latino communities together into a single district, it ensured that they had a representative serving their interests. This district in particular was featured in [a recent LastWeekTonight episode][2]. [1]: [link] [2]: [this video]

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Pushes back aaron695 November 2020 under Let the Incarcerated Vote

Accuses the segment of inconsistency on gerrymandering.

John Oliver did an anti-gerrymandering special, until he got to a seat where they split apart Blacks and Latinos. Then that was ok -> [this video]

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