Huffington Post South africa doubling down on blog post calling for white men to lose voting rights
For those that don't know a HP blogger recently posted a story titled "Could It Be Time To Deny White Men The Franchise?" The content is essentially what you'd expect favoring the viewpoint that white men should lose the right to vote (world wide) for 20-30 years in order for progressives to redistribute the worlds wealth and power.
Much more interestingly (IMO) their Editor-in-Chief Verashni Pillay just published a post in support of the article. In her post she explains that the ideas in the original post are a part of standard feminist theory and should not be surprising to anyone. She goes on to suggest that the reason readers are upset "derives from a very poor reading of the article -- or perhaps none at all".
Curious to know what people think on this one.
MO- I went through and re-read the original article wondering if I'd missed something that suggested it was an intellectual exercise on a social theory and no..no it wasn't. The article is very clearly a call in support of this happening. I can't help but feel like Pilay just trying to downplay things by suggesting it's "standard for feminist theory" and that there is nothing to be "shocked or surprised about". Personally yes I am a little stocked and surprised. There is a difference between theory and practice and the original article was about putting it into practice. A practice that calls for removing the rights of people based on gender and race ostensibly for the noblest of purposes. I consider myself progressive but this whole issue is both mortifying and counter productive.
Posted Apr 14, 2017, 10:19 PM UTC
Glad to see the Huffington Post is as good in SA as it is in the US. I'll start off by saying this, don't read the HuffPo. It's basically Buzzfeed for people who probably think they're too professional for Buzzfeed. It's basically Buzzfeed without emoji ratings at the bottom of the articles.
Also I agree that this is extremely counter productive. This whole article introduces a dumb theory created to satiate the authors dream world fantasies. I can't find a reason to take this seriously in the slightest so don't take it to heart. The harder the reaction to dumb stuff like this the more similar articles we get. She's obviously blinded by the cloak that is identity politics that she can't see the much more important class conflict at play.