Women's suffrage is apparently up for debate again in America | Arwa Mahdawi
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Women's suffrage is apparently up for debate again in America | Arwa Mahdawi
"I know more young women today who say they wish they didn't ever get the right to vote than I've ever talked to in my life, Sorbo recently told Richard Harris, host of the Truth & Liberty YouTube show."
"I would much rather give up my one right to vote if it meant 10,000 liberal women wouldn't be allowed to vote, so that we could return to a better place. (Many such cases!)"
"Perhaps you're thinking: what does it matter what a 24-year-old jamoke on a far-right YouTube show says? I refer you to line three of paragraph one: it matters because we live in hell. In a normal world, Sorbo would be a fringe figure shouting into the ether who we could all happily ignore. But thanks in part to digital media, we don't have that luxury any more. Sorbo has 1.9 million followers on TikTok.; while some of his videos only get a few thousand views he has quite a"
Braeden Sorbo, a 24-year-old conservative influencer, claims many young women tell him they wish they had not gained the right to vote. He attributes social ills such as abortion and feminism to the 19th Amendment and describes peers willing to surrender their vote to prevent liberal women from voting. He envisions a voting system grounded in Christian morals that would allow married couples a single joint vote. A YouTube host did not challenge his assertions. Digital media amplifies his reach, with Sorbo holding about 1.9 million TikTok followers and significant online influence.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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