Posted on 07/05/2024 4:24:49 PM PDT by simpson96
Self-proclaimed "radical" protesters disrupted a performance of a Broadway musical about American suffragettes on Tuesday, arguing it is a "White wash" of history.
Former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is a co-producer of the Broadway production of "Suffs: The Musical," which is described on its website as a show that "brings to life a complicated chapter in the ongoing battle for the right to vote: the American women’s suffrage movement," and "boldly explores the victories and failures of a fight for equality that is still far from over."
Cell phone footage showed what appeared to protesters in high balcony seating near the main stage during Tuesday's performance unfurling a banner that read, "SUFFS IS A WHITE WASH" while chanting, "’Suffs’ is a White wash! Cancel ‘Suffs!’"
The banner featured the URL of the group’s anti-Suffs website, which argued that "’SUFFS’ claims to teach history but really it’s a whitewashed, slanted, and ultimately dangerous version of history." The site also said, "’SUFFS’ is a betrayal of the next generation of feminists. We REJECT this rehashed white feminism. This action is brought to you by an autonomous group of radical, anti-racist, queer feminists."
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The Hamas wing getting bored?
This play tells us that the fight for voting rights equality is far from over???? Hillary believes this??
Do these people live in a different world from the rest of us?
Will the protesters commit Arkancide?
In other news, a sudden flurry of suicides has plagued a certain group of feminist radicals...
Too many white, straight people for the new radicals to tolerate.
This has to be the most communist news story of the day. One group putting on a propaganda play, were interrupted by younger revolutionaries.
Freaking unreal. Like something out of the early USSR.
“The Hamas wing getting bored?”
The people SUFFERING from these “suffragettes” are AMERICAN FAMILIES that simply want to raise their kids in the same society that they grew up in. But no, once we ‘expanded the vote’, we find our country on the brink of being EXTINGUISHED (at least as we knew it), if not by Russian or Chinese nukes, then by Demographic DISASTER that these ‘suffragettes’ caused.
And the IRONIC FACT is that it was the Industrialists (as in rich, white, men) that started this ‘suffragettes’ movement, so that they could greatly EXPAND the workforce, meaning lower wages for all - exactly as they’ve done recently regarding mass immigration.
The Founders had it right - limit voting to people who can think rationally.
The right to vote that led to the “right to kill”...
Women’s suffrage needs to end. We have all suffered enough.
The gift of the 19th keeps on giving.
It is a whitewash of history.
WIKI
From 1912 to 1914 the female enfranchisement movement, the suffragettes, orchestrated a bombing and arson campaign which was described by the suffragettes themselves as terrorism. Emmeline Pankhurst said the suffragettes committed these acts to “terrorise the British public” and the Women’s Social and Political Union reported their own acts as a “Reign of terror”. The campaign included burning down the houses of members of the cabinet, an axe being thrown at the Prime minister, attempted bombings of train stations including with nail bombs, and attempts to flood towns by attacking water courses. Bearman asserts that there were at least 337 arson or bombing attempts and that the cost of the campaign in 2021 money amounted to 140-240 million pounds. 1300 people had been arrested and imprisoned by the end of the campaign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Great_Britain
WIKI
The Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom founded in 1903. Known from 1906 as the suffragettes, its membership and policies were tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia. Sylvia was eventually expelled.
The WSPU membership became known for civil disobedience and direct action. Emmeline Pankhurst described them as engaging in a “reign of terror”. Group members heckled politicians, held demonstrations and marches, broke the law to force arrests, broke windows in prominent buildings, set fire to or introduced chemicals into postboxes thus injuring several postal workers, and committed a series of arsons that killed at least five people and injured at least 24. When imprisoned, the group’s members engaged in hunger strikes and were subject to force-feeding. Emmeline Pankhurst said the group’s goal was “to make England and every department of English life insecure and unsafe”.
On 13 October 1908, Emmeline Pankhurst together with Christabel Pankhurst and Flora Drummond organised a rush on the House of Commons. 60,000 people gathered in Parliament Square and attempts were made by suffragettes to break through the 5000 strong police cordon. Thirty-seven arrests were made, ten people were taken to hospital. On 29 June 1909, WSPU activists Ada Wright and Sarah Carwin were arrested for breaking government windows. They were sentenced to a month in prison. After breaking every window in their cells, in a protest they went on a hunger strike, following the pioneering strike of Marion Wallace Dunlop. They were released after six days.
The WSPU responded by organising a new and broader campaign of direct action. Once this got underway with the wholesale smashing of shop windows, the government ordered arrests of the leadership. Although they had disagreed with strategy, Frederick and Emmeline Pethwick-Lawrence, were sentenced to nine months imprisonment for conspiracy and successfully sued for the cost of the property damage.
Some WSPU militants, however, were prepared to go beyond outrages against property. On 18 July 1912, in Dublin Mary Leigh threw a hatchet that narrowly missed the head of the visiting prime minister H. H. Asquith. On 29 January 1913, several letter bombs were sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George, and the prime minister Asquith, but they all exploded in post offices, post boxes or in mailbags while in transit across the country. Between February and March 1913, railway signal wires were purposely cut on lines across the country endangering train journeys.
On 19 February 1913, as part of a wider suffragette bombing and arson campaign, a bomb was set off in Pinfold Manor, the country home of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lloyd George, which brought down ceilings and cracked walls. On the evening of the incident Emmeline Pankhurst claimed responsibility, announcing at a public meeting in Cardiff, we have “blown up the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s house”. Pankhurst was willing to be arrested for the incident saying “I have advised, I have incited, I have conspired”; and that if she was arrested for the incident she would prove that the “punishment unjustly imposed upon women who have no voice in making the laws cannot be carried out”. On 3 April Pankhurst was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude for procuring and inciting women to commit “malicious injuries to property”. The Temporary Discharge for Ill Health Bill was rushed through Parliament to ensure that Pankhurst, who had immediately gone on hunger strike, did not die in prison.
In response to the bomb Lloyd George wrote an article in Nash’s Magazine, entitled “Votes for Women and Organised Lunacy” where he argued that the “main obstacle to women getting the vote is militancy”. It had alienated those who would have supported them. The only way for women to get the vote is a new movement “absolutely divorced from stones and bombs and torches”.
On the evening of 9 March 1914 in Glasgow, about 40 militant suffragettes, including members of the Bodyguard team, brawled with several squads of police constables who were attempting to re-arrest Emmeline Pankhurst during a pro-suffrage rally at St. Andrew’s Hall. The following day, suffragette Mary Richardson (known as one of the most militant activists, also called “Slasher” Richardson) walked into the National Gallery in London and attacked Diego Velázquez’s painting, Rokeby Venus with a meat cleaver. Her action stimulated a wave of attacks on artworks that would continue for five months. In June, militants had placed a bomb beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey.
Suffragette Annie Kenney recalls an elderly man continuously jeering “if you were my wife I’d give you poison” throughout the course of her speech, to which she replied “yes, and if I were your wife I’d take it,” diffusing threats and making her antagonist appear laughable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Social_and_Political_Union
I do wonder in what way was the musical untrue and what the protesters were believing is true?
Nothing said on that.
“Miss Anthony came away from the Syracuse convention thoroughly convinced that the right which woman needed above every other, the one indeed which would secure to her all others, was the right of suffrage.”
via:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony
1846:
“I wasn’t ready to vote, didn’t want to vote, but I did want equal pay for equal work.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony
1861
“Let us open to the colored man all our schools ... Let us admit him into all our mechanic shops, stores, offices, and lucrative business avocations ... let him rent such pew in the church, and occupy such seat in the theatre ... Extend to him all the rights of Citizenship.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony
1873
“you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony
True, but in the 1870s there was a lot of controversy about who should get the vote first, women or African-Americans. For some women’s suffragists it was insulting that freedmen without education get the vote and they didn’t.
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