It is already almost impossible for people of color to get ID. Do you know how hard it is to get a passport?
To get a passport you already have to have a photo ID.
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A vaccine passport isn't the same as a regular passport. The vaccine passport is just proof of vaccination. You're right about the process to get an actual passport, but the vaccine passport at this point can just be the vax card that you get when you get the jab
I think it's still accurate because even if the passport is just a piece of paper, it wasn't the first step of the process. Just like getting the vaccine you need to go somewhere or schedule an appointment for a passport; either way an effort has to be made to acquire them, they aren't handed out. So regardless of whether you're going to get a passport, go to the doctor, or to the DMV for voter ID, it would be disingenuous to differentiate any of those steps due to racism or privilege
Right but getting the vaccine is free, and a much shorter process than a passport, which requires a number of steps and a waiting period. In a sense, they literally are being handed out now. People are going door to door with them. And then boom, passport.
Additionally, the number of places who offer vaccinations, and subsequently passports, are far greater than the number of places that can get you ACTUAL passports. It's much easier it is to get a vaccination in bumfuck ohio than it is to get a passport
That's why it's different
Spoil sport. lol