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Women ought to use their vote! (October 16, 1907)
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Dang, I can't agree. Yes, take care of your business, but everyone deserves a vote.
His point is that other priorities exist first which was a common sentiment at the time for poor suffrage vote, it was pretty common to want the wealthy to gain suffrage votes but not the poor.
It's fucked up yes but given the other positions at the time it's certainly the lesser evil but not free of sin if that makes sense.
To be a devils advocate, if you replace the word poor with uneducated, we have seen the consequences of those people being manipulated for votes in the current day.
Keeping poor women uneducated probably created a real perception that they were unqualified as voters, and in some cases, that may have been true.
Of course, the way to remedy that is to fund good education for everyone, not restrict people’s right to vote.
Yeah. So far we've only seen the True strips where he's the good guy. They were apparently the minority.
I don't think they're necessarily the minority (maybe, but I'd need to see a bigger sample). I just think that in a hundred year old strip there will be outdated ideas.
I actually like that he's wrong here. That's a battle that we as a country won. It's nice to be reminded that some battles aren't just some sisyphean task.
I want future generations to look at some of my ideas and think they're backwards because they've progressed so far.
The person who has been selecting them for us has said as much.
Neat! I look forward to seeing him be wrong a lot then.