Posted on 04/13/2017 5:13:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A Huffington Post blogger proposed Thursday to deny white men the right to vote for 20 years to correct the wrongs they afflicted on the world.
Shelley Garland, a MA philosophy student, pondered taking away white men’s voting powers as punishment for their “toxic white masculinity” in an op-ed. Garland argues that if it hadn’t been for white men, President Donald Trump wouldn’t have been elected and the U.K. would still be a part of the E.U.
The only way to fix this, Garland reasons, is to take away white men’s voting rights for about twenty years.
”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,” Garland writes.
Garland acknowledges while this is unfair, it is a form of reparations for white men committing slavery, colonialism and apartheid in the past.
“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,” Garland writes.
People also blamed “whiteness” and white people for the reason Trump became president. (RELATED: Media Calls Election A Victory for ‘Whiteness’)
“We now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is still a white America, and not exclusively red-state or blue-collar, that will fight to the end to retain its ancestral status over the non-white Americas rising all around it in a fearsome new century,” wrote Frank Rich at the New York Magazine.
I’ll be happy to accept that if losing the vote excuses me from paying taxes!
MA = Master of Arts.
Then take away her diploma, it’s based on white patriarchal “mastery” of other oppressed human groups.
My, these are about the dullest people you would ever meet, aren’t they?
I usually don’t do this but it is so close by on the list I can’t resist:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3543954/posts
A lot of pot.
How bout instead we just banish this “blogger” to the jungles of Africa or to Afghanistan for life ?
That’s very Democratic of her.
“Garland argues that if it hadn’t been for white men, President Donald Trump wouldn’t have been elected and the U.K. would still be a part of the E.U.”
If it hadn’t been for white men, the U.S. would still BELONG to the U.K.!!
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.
pain inflicted by white males
black, female-identifying bodies,”
This is a seriously disturbed and mentally ill person.
All the white men who have died for this country more than negate anything she brings up.
The war on whites and white men continues unabated.
”If white men no longer had the vote, the progressive cause would be strengthened. .....>>>>>>>>>
Liberal fascist Garland and those freaks like her are the reason we have a 2nd befriendment!
I am really wanting to kiss up to her!
Were it not for white men the polio vaccine would never have been developed.
Why is support for an ever larger EU a black, female thing?
Why not just kill them, Shelty?
You know you want to.
Can’t find any info about her except someone with the same name in Real Estate and in GA...
She’s probably all of 19 years old with all that knowledge in her head. Mush brain!!!!!
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