Jason Whitlock Implies That Women Shouldn't Vote

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In at the moment’s episode of Rattling. Jason Whitlock Actually Doesn’t Know He’s Black, Does he? Jason Whitlock spoke at a Turning Level USA occasion in Phoenix, Arizona, and he primarily informed the viewers that girls ought to by no means have been allowed to vote.

First, let’s begin with what he truly stated:

They’ve recreated this historical past that oh God, it was all simply sexism, and we didn’t have the appropriate to vote till Susan B. Anthony and the ladies’s suffrage motion and I’ll defend life earlier than suffrage. As a result of a vote used to characterize the household. After we had been a tradition that basically valued household and actually understood the pure order that God supposed, man serving God, lady following man who serves God, man and lady growing and nurturing kids.

You solely wanted one vote per family as a result of that vote was about the complete household as they’ve destroyed our household construction and made this all a person pursuit. Not everyone has to have a vote and everyone has to have an agenda that numerous occasions has nothing to do with household.

Like most distinguished conservatives, Jason Whitlock—who claims he’s not a conservative regardless of his beliefs falling completely according to just about each single stance generally taken by Republican conservatives—is remixing America’s darkish historical past to make oppression sound like a bouquet of contemporary roses. Within the MAGA thoughts, it paints a prettier image to say girls didn’t vote as a result of the “vote used to characterize the household” and the “pure order that God supposed” was “man serving God, lady following man.” Individuals who truly know issues perceive that the rationale girls couldn’t vote was that males stated so, as a result of males didn’t assume they had been sensible or succesful sufficient to know the complexities of politics, and to justify this perception, males took it upon themselves to talk for an all-powerful “God” as to what “he” supposed.

It’s the identical manner white individuals justified slavery and the overall subjugation of Black individuals—not that that might cease Whitlock from desirous to return to these occasions. (Once more, that man doesn’t perceive that he’s a Black individual. He’s the real-life Uncle Ruckus and I’d wager good cash that the phrases “Revitiligo signs” may be present in his browser historical past.)

Thoughts you, Whitlock has actually boasted that he’s by no means voted earlier than. (He stated he plans to begin now that he’s formally turn into a “MAGA man” as a result of his orange MAGA crush is below felony indictment.) By Whitlock’s personal admission, he has spent his total grownup life failing to correctly serve his “God,” however now he’s out right here lamenting the day Susan B. Anthony impressed girls to consider they’ve the appropriate to be represented and have a voice that exists exterior of the household unit. (On second thought, possibly Whitlock does know he’s Black however he additionally understands what a great home slave he would’ve made, and that’s the rationale he appears to be wishing he existed earlier than the time of Anthony, who was born in 1820 and died in 1906, greater than a decade earlier than the nineteenth modification gave girls the appropriate to vote.)

The truth that Jason Whitlock, in all his infinite sunken place-dom, was capable of stand in entrance of an viewers within the twenty first century and even indicate that girls ought to by no means have began voting solely exhibits what backward, regressive and naturally oppressive individuals conservatives are. It’s additional proof that “make America nice once more” means precisely what it seems to imply: Return America to a time when patriarchy and white supremacy had been the universally accepted norm. (It was the common norm so far as white individuals had been involved. I’m fairly certain when the natives had been being slaughtered and Africans had been being enslaved, they weren’t becoming a member of white individuals in justifying it by saying, “Welp, these are the occasions.”)

Republicans and Democrats alike have referred to as the appropriate to vote a basic staple of American freedom and liberty, and but, conservatives appear to be on a mission to restrict who can and who can’t solid a poll. Go determine.