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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I mean... I get that, but you can't celebrate it as "a significant achievement" and get grumpy when someone points out that a ton of (nonwhite) people in the US still couldn't participate in political process. White feminism (i.e., hyping up and hyperfocusing on advancements for white women to the detriment of women of color) is a big problem in third wave feminism as it is.
Plus there was the fact that the suffragettes tended to throw black women and other races under the bus in order to secure their own rights. Hell, one of the arguing platforms of the white suffragettes was that black men had the right to vote and white women didn't.note
Adventurers: homeless people who steal from tombs and kill things.
The article I posted actually talks about, restrictive state laws that prevented Woman of Color from voting, as well as some of the intersectional issues of being black and female.
So the act was a major achievement in that it laid the groundwork for the later Civil Rights movement, and established the precedent of black woman being able to vote and hold political office, but was not fully realized until the civil rights movement.
There is a bit more to it than that, of course, but it's still worth mentioning.
Edited by megaeliz on Jun 4th 2019 at 9:31:19 AM
Trying to hold Utopian Perfection and Success as a standard is by far one of the biggest issues of the Progressive Left
Edited by KazuyaProta on Jun 4th 2019 at 8:41:13 AM
Watch me destroying my countryWe've had two mod notices in three pages on a fast moving thread now. Can we please all take a deep breath?
Trump's visit
to Britain continues, and it now appears a Trump supporter punctured and deflated the baby balloon carried around at the London protests. The President himself clashed with Mayor Sadiq Khan, and Jeremy Corbyn atttended and addressed the protest.
Edited by AzurePaladin on Jun 4th 2019 at 10:14:10 AM
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -FighteerFrankly, what more needs be said at this point?
Well, according the news I'm watching right now, Barr and the Justice Department at the very least are taking this contempt vote seriously. To the point of apparently begging Nadler and his committee to not have the vote, and promising to hand over anything. (It's the Rachel Maddow show I'm watching right now, btw.)
And the House apparently passed a bill for creating a path to citizenship for Dreamers today, with seven Republicans siding with the Democrats.
So yeah, it does seem like the Democrats are attempting to do things here.
Seconded. Its victim blaming at its finest. "Well, you're the ones who came up here and made us have to slash our budget."
Yeah, no. Wisewillow is 100% correct here.
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -FighteerI may be stating the obvious, but it's clear that the victim blaming is just an extremely thinly-veiled excuse because even the Trump Administration knows they can't just outright admit that they just wanna make life that much harder for immigrants.
Though, honestly, I wonder why they even bother at this point.
Edited by PhysicalStamina on Jun 5th 2019 at 1:13:13 PM
i'm tired, my friendWell, we've got a couple more cases of Enemy Mine going on.
First, AOC is calling for Manafort's release from Solitary Confinement at Riker's Island
, saying: Paul Manafort is being sent to solitary confinement in my district – Rikers Island. A prison sentence is not a license for gov torture and human rights violations. That‘s what solitary confinement is,” the New York Democrat wrote on Twitter. “Manafort should be released, along with all people being held in solitary.
And the Senate is going to hold 22 individual votes on the arms deals with Saudi Arabia
, so they can get Senators on-record as being in favor or opposed to it. They don't expect to reach the threshold of overriding a veto, but it's a good symbolic gesture if nothing else.
You Tube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views The decision by You Tube, which is owned by Google, is the latest action by a Silicon Valley company to stem the spread of hate speech and disinformation on their sites
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/business/youtube-remove-extremist-videos.html
Russia's manipulation of Twitter was far vaster than believed – A cybersecurity firm analyzed a massive data set Twitter released in October 2018 on nearly 3,900 accounts and 10 million tweets
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/05/study-russia-cybersecurity-twitter-1353543
Edited by sgamer82 on Jun 5th 2019 at 12:16:07 PM
Don't get too excited on that
.
They decided recently that although Stephen Crowder has been publishing hateful and harassing content against a Vox Journalist on the site, that it didn't actually violate their rules.
He had been calling the journalist homophobic and racist names, siccing crowds of followers onto him, and You Tube has done nothing. De facto, if they will not enforce their anti-harassment rules against homophobia, it is now allowed on Youtube.
Right at the beginning of Pride, too.
Edited by AzurePaladin on Jun 5th 2019 at 2:20:18 PM
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -FighteerOn the other hand, they are taking down a lot of Make America Straight Again ads. The Liberty Baptist Church is holding an event encouraging genocide of LGBT people near the Pulse Nightclub (of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub Shooting fame) during Pride. That is not hyperbolic; in the ads, they literally say that LGBT people should be executed.
A coordinated backlash campaign to shame their pastors and get their hate videos taken down off of YouTube has been very successful so far. Even if some of the public shaming is a little bit petty (but well-deserved).
I'm not saying that Pastor Tommy McMurtry is attracted to pumpkins. I'm just saying we don't really know.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jun 5th 2019 at 12:30:19 PM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Don't get me wrong, its a really good thing that You Tube is getting rid of those videos. Just remember that they aren't as thorough as one should be and don't actually care all that much (these videos would have been removed already if they had).
...I can't tell if this is one of those "Homophobe is secretly gay" jokes, but if it is...can we please not? Insinuating that insecure gay people are the ones who inflict homophobia on others only shifts the blame off straight people to gay people, which is...pretty yikes.
Edited by AzurePaladin on Jun 5th 2019 at 2:56:51 PM
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -Fighteer

Indeed. The majority of the barriers against black voting in the South ranged from shady and corrupt (grandfather clauses, rigged literacy tests) to outright illegal (simply not counting black votes); the law after the Amendment said that every citizen could vote by right.
Problem is, the law doesn't protect people. People protect the law. And the powerful in America have a lot of experience in not protecting black people's rights.
Anyway, the reason I said wisewillow's post was unhelpful is that she was responding to a celebratory post about the anniversary of a significant advancement with "but it didn't make everything perfect." It was unnecessarily negative.
Edited by Ramidel on Jun 4th 2019 at 5:06:08 AM