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CMV: Gerrymandering in the name of racial representation is just as wrong as racial or partisan discrimination.

I watched John Oliver last night and the topic of republican gerrymandering came up. A long held belief of liberals like Oliver is that Gerrymandering for partisan reasons or racial discrimination reasons is wrong. He then perplexingly noted that it's not always bad like in Illinois 4th district because it gives Latinos representation. 

Isn't this just as bad and anti democratic? If you let someone's voice matter more because a similar group of individuals hold the same belief isn't that tyrany of the majority (even if that majority is part of a larger minority).
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You misunderstood the episode, the point that was that not all squiggly districts are gerrymandered. The Illinois 4th district is merely drawn to encompass a latino community. *That is not gerrymandering.* 

Gerrymandering *can* involve drawing lines around the whole of a community, that is known as "packing", but it only results in gerrymandering in tandem with "cracking", that is diluting a community as a minority in many different districts. 

Imagine a state with 1 million people, 500k democrats and 500k republicans, that is to be divided into 10 voting districts. 

Gerrymandering is when one district is drawn painstakingly around 100k republicans and no one else, so the other 9 districts can all equally be drawn with a slight but comfortable majority of democrats.

Replace democrat and republican with black and white, and it's the same deal. "Gerrymandering in the name of racial representation" is what republicans have been caught doing in Virginia. The Illinois 4th is not just a pro-latino equivalent of that, it is an entirely separate kind of situation, where there was one big democraticleaning area, and within it, the inter-district lines were drawn in such a way to create one latino and one black district, instead of two half-latino-half-black ones. No group got "cracked", only meaningful communities were defined for representatives to represent.