Could It Be Time To Deny HuffPo The Franchise?

[benjipwns]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/shelley-garland/could-it-be-time-to-deny-white-men-the-franchise_a_22036640/

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.

It is obvious that this violent status quo will not change without a struggle, and the only way to do so will be through the expropriation of these various assets and equitably distribute them to those who need them. This will not only make the world a more equitable place, but will also go some way to paying the debt that white males owe the world. 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. In addition, white men should not be stripped of their other rights, and this withholding of the franchise should only be a temporary measure, as the world rights the wrongs of the past.

A withholding of the franchise from white males, along with the passing of legislation in this period to redistribute some of their assets, will also, to a degree, act as the reparations for slavery, colonialism, and apartheid, which the world is crying out for to be paid.

It is time to wrestle control of the world back from white males, and the first step will be a temporary restriction of the franchise to them.

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Shelley Garland
MA Philosophy Student
Shelley Garland is an activist and a feminist and is currently completing an MA degree in philosophy. When she’s not gagging at South Africa’s unique brand of rainbow politics, she’s working on ways to smash the patriarchy.

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[benjipwns]

I've been doing my part.

[zomgee]

Well now I know who goes to the_donald.

[I'm a Puppy!]

That spoiler

[benjipwns]

Well now I know who goes to the_donald.

Why? Do you go there...

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[etiolate]

teh patriaaaaaaaaarchy

[CatsCatsCats]

Might be nice to not take the blame amirite? 

[Trurl]

After a few short years the rest of the world would be begging for the counsel of white men.  I say we stop voting right now as part of a strike.

[Joe Molotov]

I thought Buffalo Wild Wings was the white man franchise?

[naff]

Lol, so good. We have even sanitised, and commercialised, feminism for the masses in the last decade. Please try & change things with your votes.

[Great Rumbler]

This is the kind of liberal think-piece that gets posted on Breitbart as evidence against free college tuition.

[etiolate]

There's tons of this shit if you ever feel up for punishing yourself with the feminism blogzine world or what passes as an academic paper now. There are people arguing to start defunding the social sciences/gender studies programs and I'm sort of on board with that mainly because they are hooked into the college debt scam. The main purpose of those studies at this point is to provide easy majors for students who really only exist as students because of lowered standards and their ability to get a student loan. The gradual movement from place of education to academic business means you need a fast food subject matter to sell the growing market.

[benjipwns]

the funny sad adjective part is when you've gone down the rabbit hole so often this piece reads like a moderate weak kneed David Brooksish rehashing of ideas you've seen a thousand times before under various guises but the author thinks they discovered something way out there and new

kara knows

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like this:

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[Kara]

Question to the author: Are people who are Armenian considered white? Follow up question: why would you deny Bob Avakian the vote?

[zomgee]

Well now I know who goes to the_donald.

Why? Do you go there...

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I go there only to ask how to get away from there. 

Do *you* go there?

[Trent Dole]

Deny white men the franchise? So Shane Douglas is black now?

[toku]

fuck all cacs unless they sucking my dick

[etiolate]

[chronovore]

fuck all cacs unless they sucking my dick

In short, all cacs must engage your dick.

[Steve Contra]

This would get rid of libertarians in a single shot so I'm 100% for it.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Interesting proposal but a bit roundabout, why not just ban liberalism directly?

[Atramental]

Interesting proposal but a bit roundabout, why not just ban liberalism directly?

Easier said than done. 

[etiolate]

Magnificent update time

After getting angry responses, the Huff Post SA doubled down on the piece.

http://archive.is/MFURt

Garland's underlying analysis about the uneven distribution of wealth and power in the world is pretty standard for feminist theory. It has been espoused in many different ways by feminist writers and theorists for decades now. In that sense, there was nothing in the article that should have shocked or surprised anybody (or so we thought.)

And then a day later, I guess they finally decided to vet the piece and..

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2017/04/14/this-blog-on-white-men-is-going-viral-heres-our-response_a_22039753/

We have done this because the blog submission from an individual who called herself Shelley Garland, who claimed to be an MA student at UCT, cannot be traced and appears not to exist.

 

[Steve Contra]

Internet white guys fall for a clickbait piece written by a ghost 

Not exactly refuting the thesis

[etiolate]

[Great Rumbler]

HuffPo got trolled by a fake liberal piece that was probably written by somebody on the alt-right. Stay losing, liberal media.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Protip: Nothing worthwhile has ever been published on The Huffington Post

dat clickbait hustle tho

[Phoenix Dark]

disappointed. I thought this was gonna be about a Huffo Cinematic Universe.

[Raist]

Never forget.

[Kara]

You yourself advocate that people not take controversial statements seriously on the internet if there's a possibilty that they're not sincere (because we live in a time so nihilistic that irony is too sincere), yet you went from zero to conspiracy theorizing itt when (as benji pointed out) the piece was so on-the-nose that incredulity was the rational first response to the OP.

[TakingBackSunday]

The etoilet way

[etiolate]

conspiracy theory? There was no conspiracy theory put forth.

I related the piece to what can be found on the web and in academic papers. Rumbler brought up someone like Breitbart talking about using this to remove free college tuition, but there are people in academia that are starting to feel that certain disciplines need to get defunded. I put in my view that doing so may take away from what I feel is a bit of a scam.

My comeon emote was because Contra's response was trying too hard.

I never stated to take the piece seriously, but that its not out of the norm. That's why it not only worked as a troll, but also get HuffPo to defend it as common, everyday feminist theory. What I take seriously is the reason why it would get published so easily.

Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

[etiolate]

This story had one more final death yelp.

The HuffPo editor doxxed the writer of the article, found out who he was and where he worked, contacted his employer and got him fired.

The Ombudsmen of South Africa then cited Huffington Post for publishing hate speech and cited the Editors lack of regret or acknowledgement of it as hate speech as a deciding factor.

The HuffPo editor resigned.