On the Merits of a Temporary Moratorium on White Male Voting

[Forty Two]

https://www.amren.com/news/2017/04/time ... franchise/

Shelley Garland, Huffington Post, April 13, 2017

Some of the biggest blows to the progressive cause in the past year have often been due to the votes of white men. If white men were not allowed to vote, it is unlikely that the United Kingdom would be leaving the European Union, it is unlikely that Donald Trump would now be the President of the United States, and it is unlikely that the Democratic Alliance would now be governing four of South Africa’s biggest cities.

If white men no longer had the vote, the progressive cause would be strengthened. It would not be necessary to deny white men indefinitely – the denial of the vote to white men for 20 years (just less than a generation) would go some way to seeing a decline in the influence of reactionary and neo-liberal ideology in the world. The influence of reckless white males were one of the primary reasons that led to the Great Recession which began in 2008. This would also strike a blow against toxic white masculinity, one that is long needed.

At the same time, a denial of the franchise to white men, could see a redistribution of global assets to their rightful owners. After all, white men have used the imposition of Western legal systems around the world to reinforce modern capitalism. A period of twenty years without white men in the world’s parliaments and voting booths will allow legislation to be passed which could see the world’s wealth far more equitably shared. The violence of white male wealth and income inequality will be a thing of the past.

This redistribution of the world’s wealth is long overdue.

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Over the past 500 years colonialism, slavery, and various aggressive wars and genocides, have been due to the actions of white men. Redistributing some of their assets will go some way to paying the historical debt that they owe society.

It is no surprise that liberalism – and its ideological offshoots of conservatism and libertarianism – are the most popular ideologies among white males. These ideologies with their focus on individuals and individual responsibility, rather than group affiliation, allow white men to ignore the debt that they owe society, and from acknowledging that most of their assets, wealth, and privilege are the result of theft and violence.

Some may argue that this is unfair. Let’s be clear, it may be unfair, but a moratorium on the franchise for white males for a period of between 20 and 30 years is a small price to pay for the pain inflicted by white males on others, particularly those with black, female-identifying bodies.

[NineBerry]

Text was written by a hoax.

[pErvinalia]

This was already pointed out to him in another thread.

[Svartalf]

one man, one vote, white males are people too end entitled to vote too, period

[Forty Two]

I only heard of this article for the first time today, and I know it's a hoax, because I read the retraction on HuffPo. It's linked in the bottom of the article, with Huffpo's reasons for taking it down.

What thread was this pointed out to me on, pErvin?

But, the question still stands, and what do ya'll think of the arguments made?

[NineBerry]

We can institute a law where people first have to show they are ready to vote by rhythmically shaking their asses.

[Forty Two]

one man, one vote, white males are people too end entitled to vote too, period

If we live in a white male patriarchy, and/or if white males are institutionally and systemically privileged, is there no argument to be made that they should move aside and let non-white-males make the rules?

[pErvinalia]

I think they suck.

[Svartalf]

one man, one vote, white males are people too end entitled to vote too, period

If we live in a white male patriarchy, and/or if white males are institutionally and systemically privileged, is there no argument to be made that they should move aside and let non-white-males make the rules?

All hail the white male patriarchy, if you don't like it, go found your own country in Africa or in the Aussie desert...

[pErvinalia]

I only heard of this article for the first time today, and I know it's a hoax, because I read the retraction on HuffPo. It's linked in the bottom of the article, with Huffpo's reasons for taking it down.

What thread was this pointed out to me on, pErvin?

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 1#p1704021

[Forty Two]

I only heard of this article for the first time today, and I know it's a hoax, because I read the retraction on HuffPo. It's linked in the bottom of the article, with Huffpo's reasons for taking it down.

What thread was this pointed out to me on, pErvin?

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 1#p1704021

You'll note my only comment there is to laklak saying someone was stealing my shtick. I never read the article, and took zero notice of it. I thought it was funny when I ran across it today.

[pErvinalia]

I really don't understand what is going wrong in your head. Your memory is worse than mine, and mine is shithouse.

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 5#p1703925

[Forty Two]

Odd - I literally have no recollection of that article. My bad.

[pErvinalia]

It's happening to me more and more lately. It's either my ADs or I've got myself some form of degenerative brain disease.

[laklak]

Memory in the shithouse? Luxury. When I were lad we.....I mean....fuck, I forget.