{"id":62753,"date":"2017-04-14T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62753"},"modified":"2017-04-13T21:46:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T02:46:22","slug":"challenge-accepted-and-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62753","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Accepted And Returned!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shelley Garland &#8211; whose bio describes here as &#8220;&#8230;an activist and a feminist and is currently completing an MA degree in philosophy. When she\u2019s not gagging at South Africa\u2019s unique brand of rainbow politics, she\u2019s working on ways to smash the patriarchy&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.za\/shelley-garland\/could-it-be-time-to-deny-white-men-the-franchise_a_22036640\/\">writes in &#8211; where else &#8211; the HuffPo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;s biggest cities.<\/p>\n<p>If white men no longer had the vote, the progressive cause would be strengthened. It would not be necessary to deny white men indefinitely \u2013 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/08\/white-men-as-the-problem\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">influence of reckless white<\/a> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ms. Garland &#8211; &#8220;progressivie&#8221; utopianism has given us ever single one of the woes of the past 100 years. \u00a0No exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>And if you want to deny me my franchise, I urge you to get about 30 of your friends together and see just how toxic masculinity can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelley Garland &#8211; whose bio describes here as &#8220;&#8230;an activist and a feminist and is currently completing an MA degree in philosophy. When she\u2019s not gagging at South Africa\u2019s unique brand of rainbow politics, she\u2019s working on ways to smash the patriarchy&#8221;, writes in &#8211; where else &#8211; the HuffPo: Some of the biggest blows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62754,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62753\/revisions\/62754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}