Could It Be Time To Deny White Men The Vote?

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For some people who got confused, I did not write the article below, I copy pasted it verbatim, and it does not represent my own views on the subjet


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Could It Be Time To Deny White Men The Franchise?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/shel...se_a_22036640/

This redistribution of the world’s wealth is long overdue, and it is not just South Africa where white males own a disproportionate amount of wealth.

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, and it is not just South Africa where white males own a disproportionate amount of wealth. While in South Africa 90 percent of the country's land is in the hands of whites (it is safe to assume these are mainly men), along with 97 percent of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, this is also the norm in the rest of the world. Namibia has similar statistics with regard to land distribution and one can assume this holds for other assets too. As Oxfam notes eight men control as much as wealth as the poorest 50 percent of the world's population. In the United States ten percent of the population (nearly all white) own 90 percent of all assets – it is likely that these assets are largely in the hands of males. Although statistics by race are difficult to find from other parts of the world, it is very likely that the majority of the world's assets are in the hands of white males, despite them making up less than 10 percent of the world's population.

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.

As we saw after the recent altercation between a white man and Lebohang Mabuya at a Spur restaurant in Johannesburg, white males still believe that they are in control, and people who aren't white or male (in particularly black female-identifying people) have to bow to their every whim. There are numerous other examples of white angry male violence in South Africa and abroad, often against black bodies (Dylann Roof's terrorist actions in the United States is only one of many examples). 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.

Although this may seem unfair and unjust, allowing white males to continue to call the shots politically and economically, following their actions over the past 500 years, is the greater injustice.

infracted - trolling

[GennGreymane]

Nah

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[Sunseeker]

You really have nothing better to do with your time do you? Even I, a lilly-livered liberal, don't dredge HuffPo as much as you do.

[Sorshen]

Shelley Garland, Huff Post. Maximum retard combo.

[DisposableHero]

Some may argue that this is unfair.

My favorite part.

[zenkai]

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Why are you making Tennisace quality post now?

The Huffingtonjoke our version of the Daily Fail.

[Peppered]

What about white female? otherwise males can claim trans technically.

[Alydael]

Hey, don't two wrongs always make a right? (wrong + wrong = right?)

So the best way to fix racism is to be even more racist?

Yeah, makes perfect sense..........

See where all the PC and social justice stuff leads when you follow it to its logical conclusion? That's why we have to stand against it.

Sorry, wrong is just wrong, no matter what angle you look at it from....

[Cthulhu 2020]

You really have nothing better to do with your time do you? Even I, a lilly-livered liberal, don't dredge HuffPo as much as you do.

Xarim doesn't seem to have much better to do than be non stop triggered by all things that sound ridiculous and will never happen, but this thread takes the cake.

[Kyuuseishu]

I can feel the racism and sexism oozing from the entire article.

[truckboattruck]

What about white female? otherwise males can claim trans technically.

evidence suggests that when white women are no longer needed they will be discarded also

this just backs up what ive been saying for years, the leftist is just an anti-white movement

[Deleted]

lol, huffington post.
NOPE!

[lonely zergling]

Without white men there would be no democracy to be begin with. Bad idea to deny the vote of the most important group in society. (especially in a majority white country lul)

[Wyxoor]

Putting all white people in a basket and assuming each and every one of them was responsible for slavery or had ties to it is INCREDIBLY prejudice and racist, and It's generalization that is the root to all racism, white countries were the first in the world to abolish slavery, should we ban all saudi arabians from voting because of what is currently going on over there, executions against homosexuals etc. No. If you even remotely agree with this, you should ban yourself from voting in the future.

On another note, if this is the ideas that will be put forth when white people become a minority in the U.S, I think white genocide preachers have a point.

[Paranoid Android]

Because it's the only type of post he has ever made.

Generally he finds some outlier Feminist article, with some stupid shit that is not main stream, then uses to bash feminism. That is his M.O.

[Deleted]

Try to do it, please. Try it and you and your kind will be hanging from the trees.. and lamp posts.

[Video Games]

I too wish to take part in this fantasy utopia so i don't have to work and i can just play video games all day.

[Sunseeker]

Xarim doesn't seem to have much better to do than be non stop triggered by all things that sound ridiculous and will never happen, but this thread takes the cake.

I really do with something would be done about people who do nothing but threadcrap here.

[Ishayu]

I find it absolutely astonishing that we have people out there arguing for making us slaves in our own nations, taking away all our wealth, and giving it to others. Apparently, who to give the wealth to specifically is of secondary concern - their primary concern is to rob us blind and take away our freedom. Their purpose is destruction and robbery based on race, nothing else. These people are no better than Hitler.

Some day soon, we white men are going to be fed up with this shit - and it's probable that we'll overreact. I implore progressives not to push the boundaries further than they have already done; the consequences are going to be very bloody if you do.

[Kalis]

"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."

You go girl!