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> "Do you want to repeal suffrage?" > And naturally, most have no clue that has to do with women's voting rights, and asking to repeal them. “Women’s suffrage
by skissane 4y ago
> "Do you want to repeal suffrage?"
> And naturally, most have no clue that has to do with women's voting rights, and asking to repeal them.
“Women’s suffrage” is the right of women to vote. “Suffrage” itself is simply who gets the right to vote. “Repeal women’s suffrage” has a very clear meaning, “repeal suffrage” is vague and unclear what is being repealed. Women’s suffrage? Universal male suffrage? (Once upon a time, most men couldn’t vote, since they didn’t meet the property qualifications.) Abolish elections altogether? (Use sortition? Introduce a dictatorship?)
People aren’t stupid to be confused by a confusing question.
- rootusrootus 4y ago> “Suffrage” itself is simply who gets the right to vote. No, suffrage is the right to vote. Not who. So 'repeal suffrage' simply means repealing the right to vote. It is not confusing, just absurd.
- skissane 4y agoIs abolishing elections and replacing them by sortition (legislative juries) “absurd”? A very radical proposal, but doesn’t seem inherently “absurd” to me. And of course, under such a system, nobody has suffrage (unless one means the suffrage of jurors on a jury.)
- tomrod 4y agoTo be fair, most people have a hard time understanding the word "hypothetical" or realizing something different from the status quo.
- rootusrootus 4y agoI like sortition myself, but yes it is absurd.
- skissane 4y agoWhy?