Vogue Article Shames White Women for Voting Republican
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If you’re a white woman, the writers at Vogue Magazine apparently believe you are too ignorant to be voting.
In a scathing article published Thursday, Vogue contributing editor Michelle Ruiz went after white women who voted in the midterms, who according to Ruiz “overwhelmingly threw their support behind conservative Republican male candidates. Again .”
It would appear that white women are simply not meeting the voting expectations of the Vogue editor. In her article, Ruiz pointed to past examples of candidates Roy Moore and President Donald Trump, each of whom received a significant portion of the white women’s vote, before pivoting to the 2018 midterms.
“White women overall rendered more disappointment,” complained Ruiz.
The article went on to lament the fact that in Georgia, roughly 75% of white women voted for Republican Jack Kemp in the governor’s race, while Democrat Stacey Abrams received an estimated 97% of the black women’s vote.
The problem however, according to Ruiz, wasn’t so much that white women voted for a white man over a black woman--instead, it’s that Kemp is “passionately pro-life”, while Abrams “is a staunch protector of women’s reproductive rights.”
Vogue’s Ruiz takes issue, too, with the heated Senate race in Texas, where ”60 percent of white women cast their ballots for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, a supporter of alleged assaulters President Trump and Brett Kavanaugh, over Democrat Beto O’Rourke, who is dedicated to improving women’s healthcare.”
Again, Ruiz’s main issue with white women voting appears to be their aversion to voting for pro-abortion candidates.
And although Ruiz characterizes black women as the “underappreciated backbone of the Democratic party,” she believes “white women voters are establishing themselves as maddeningly, confusingly . . . unsisterly.”
But as if that weren’t enough, the Vogue piece then goes even further, with Ruiz speculating that perhaps white women are just too ignorant and gullible to vote properly.
“Are they so invested in their own white privilege that they simply don’t care about other women?”, asked Ruiz. “Are they parroting their Republican husbands and/or brainwashed by Fox & Friends ? Maybe and maybe.”
Jackie Payne, who has worked for both the National Organization for Women (NOW) and Planned Parenthood Federation of America, seems to agree. Payne told Vogue that she believes the tendency for white women to vote for conservative candidates is due to “women voters having a lack of information and living with close ties to conservative men.”
According to Payne, these same men are in control of what is being shown to their wives on the TV, which is tuned to Fox News. And she says that white women are so busy doing all of the housework--”the lion’s share of domestic labor,” she calls it--that they “tune out and end up with a lack of information about politics.”
“They are swimming in the deep end of white male patriarchy,” said Payne.
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Regardless of skin tone or gender those who voted for Trump should be ashamed...
Yep.
I certainly don't think that any demographic should be denied a vote, but I do believe in minimum IQ requirements for voting. I believe this would go a long way towards improving America.
E.A Yes a Drug testing station before anyone is allowed to Vote!
Ok, which drugs would be disqualifying to you?
E.A Will it?
How does that cover the Illicit Drugs and how Drugdealers are " buying Votes :"?
E.A It is not up to ME. I am sure Medical Authorities have the right qualifications to make those determinations.
See 4.1.3 Eagle Averro
First you claim that there should not be any restrictions on voting then state that you think that democr... Excuse me, the intellectually challenged should be kept from voting. Make up your mind.
Honest question Lenny.
Where would you draw the line?
I wouldn't expect geniuses, just normal, average intelligence would suffice. The normal range is 80-120, so, no vote below 80? Below 75 perhaps?? Hey, we can dicker!
I know some snowflake is going to trigger off my comment and report it but Lenny I have to say it...
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E.A see the exclusion List
If i am correctly interpreting the point you are making, this brings up an interesting dilemma.
It is true that stupidity is not a barrier to voting, yet there was once a literacy test.
I swear, in my lifetime, I have met some illiterate folks who were more intelligent than some literate folks. Yet, these same illiterate folks could not do as well on an IQ test compared to the stupid literate folks I have across.
Nothing is simple.
I have pondered the idea myself.
Especially while watching Idiocracy.
There is much more than language and word definitions in an IQ test, that's just part of it, also, the test is adjusted to your education level.
The IQ tests that I have taken required that I read them.
Are there verbal or other forms of IQ tests?
E.A Yes!
And I fully support your right to say it, in fact, I found it quite humorous.
I just got home, Nice to know someone didn't have a meltdown over a obvious joking comment.
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I miss the vine because one knew why a comment was deleted by email. NT seems to be capricious in this regard. I attempt to abide by the CoC but normally don't know why comments are deleted (or remember what they even were). Beating a puppy when the puppy doesn't know why is counter productive.
I miss the vine because we were allowed to tell the right wing dingbats what we think of them!
The reason is posted on every deletion. Your post above is noted as a sweeping generalization.
And you can check what your comment was on your "ticket" counter. Hover over you account name, in upper right corner, click the "ticket" button and click "comment" button of the comment in question. All of the deleted comment is still there.
NV became nothing more than a poo flinging contest. I don't miss it in the least.
If i want to see that i just go to the monkey cage at the zoo .... great shit-show there sometimes. Still, you might have to dodge some poo from the ones with good arms ......
Geez Sparky, you really gotta find yourself a better way to spend your spare time! Let's go for a beer...
Haven't seen a truly good shit-show like that since NV shut down and our zoo shut down years prior.
Some mini shit-shows have started here on NT but much to many folks consternation i'm sure, they are never allowed to spool up out of control since the poo police thankfully reign them in relatively quickly usually.
And one never has to ask me twice to have a beer ....
I think we should be able to state how we honestly feel about something. If my honest, considered opinion is that every Trump supporter is either an asshole, an idiot, or both, then I should be able to state that opinion. I'm perfectly fine with whatever anyone wants to say about me, I've never reported anyone for anything either here or on the vine.
Weird how NV and NT seem to be going down the same road.
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Then start your own blog and you could do just that if you really wanted it. The owners of this blog feel differently and i agree with them. All that other site became was a "who has the bigger pecker" contest. Especially for some who needed to spiro agnew.
So i guess that offer of a beer is off? Damn, the beer summit is a no go ......
Not with the rules currently in place but i agree. It seems to be trying to trend that way.
Many of the same people in play ....
Lenny, no one on earth can defend Donald Trump, it isn't humanly possible.
Since they can't they try and endlessly deflect with absurd articles about Hillary Clinton or a first time congresswoman who said something silly about her rent. Oh, and political correctness. Political correctness on college campuses is the biggest issue facing the whole world, dontcha know? lol.
I miss Newstalkers from a few years ago. There were more freewheeling comments, and a whole lot less hand holding for butt hurt members who can't defend their positions.
No worries [ deleted, ] I drink with [ deleted] all the time!
My time on the vine showed me it was nothing more than a bunch of penis waving trolls shouting demeaning epithets at one another.
Actually, my long-time liberal friends are neither immigrants or minorities.
We are all college graduates. The highly educated elites who despise high school dropouts who pretend to be smart because Fox tells them that they are.
It's liberal misogyny again. They claim to be advocates for women, but see how easily and quickly they attack women for being unintelligent because they are women.
No one owes anyone else their vote because of their skin color, sex, religion, etc.
No one owes anyone else their vote because of their skin color, sex, religion
That's anathema to modern liberalism, who believe the precise opposite. They've resurrected biological determinism from the grave we thought it was placed in 1945.
Far right wing fascism never dies and must always be opposed.
Keep claiming one's race determines how one should vote and pretending you are not a fascist. Hopefully the cognitive dissonance doesn't cause your head to explode.
Again with this HA? You know better.
Liberalism and fascism are at the opposite ends of the political spectrum.
Fascism ( / ˈ f æ ʃ ɪ z əm / ) is a form of radical authoritarian ultranationalism , [1] [2] [3] [4] characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy, [5] which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. [6] The first fascist movements emerged in Italy during World War I before it spread to other European countries . [6] Opposed to liberalism , Marxism and anarchism , fascism is placed on the far-right within the traditional left–right spectrum . [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Fascists saw World War I as a revolution that brought massive changes to the nature of war, society, the state and technology. The advent of total war and the total mass mobilization of society had broken down the distinction between civilians and combatants. A "military citizenship" arose in which all citizens were involved with the military in some manner during the war. [12] [13] The war had resulted in the rise of a powerful state capable of mobilizing millions of people to serve on the front lines and providing economic production and logistics to support them, as well as having unprecedented authority to intervene in the lives of citizens. [12] [13]
Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete and they regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties. [14] Such a state is led by a strong leader—such as a dictator and a martial government composed of the members of the governing fascist party—to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society. [14] Fascism rejects assertions that violence is automatically negative in nature and views political violence, war and imperialism as means that can achieve national rejuvenation. [15] [16] [17] [18] Fascists advocate a mixed economy , with the principal goal of achieving autarky (national economic self-sufficiency) through protectionist and interventionist economic policies. [19]
Since the end of World War II in 1945, few parties have openly described themselves as fascist and the term is instead now usually used pejoratively by political opponents. The descriptions neo-fascist or post-fascist are sometimes applied more formally to describe parties of the far-right with ideologies similar to, or rooted in, 20th-century fascist movements. [6] [20]
I'm happy to oppose fascism. The problem is the left in this country has become so partisan, they label anything the other side wants as fascism whether it has any actual connection to fascism or not. They've become the party that cried "wolf" (just exchange "fascist" for "wolf").
Pretty sure that 'liberal' and 'fascism' are mutually exclusive. You own fascism. We own inclusion.
Have I ever mentioned race? What is my race?
Had to read that 2 or3 times before consigning it to the insanity bin.