Nat'l Review and Political Cesspool's Derbyshire says women should not have the right to vote

[ccharles000]

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/13269/natl-review-and-political-cesspools-derbyshire-says-women-should-not-have-the-right-to-vote

Conservative writer John Derbyshire went on Alan Colmes's radio show and showed his not-so-inner bigot and misogynist. I'll just let him speak for himself. (Think Progress):

John Derbyshire, a British-American conservative author and columnist for the National Review, has written a new book titled We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism. The book contains a section called "The Case Against Female Suffrage." Yesterday on his radio show, Alan Colmes asked Derbyshire to articulate his argument.

DERBYSHIRE: Among the hopes that I do not realistically nurse is the hope that female suffrage will be repealed. But I'll say this - if it were to be, I wouldn't lose a minute's sleep.

COLMES: We'd be a better country if women didn't vote?

DERBYSHIRE: Probably. Don't you think so?

COLMES: No, I do not think so whatsoever.

DERBYSHIRE: Come on Alan. Come clean here -laughing-.

COLMES: We would be a better country? John Derbyshire making the statement, we would be a better country if women did not vote.

DERBYSHIRE: Yeah, probably.

Did I mention that Derbyshire has a wife, Rosie and two children, Dannie and Nellie? I wonder how those views go over in that household. He also said that he would like to repeal the 1964 Civil Rights Act because you "shouldn't try to force people to be good." Well, in spite of that law, we still see a ton of racism out there. Obviously you can't force people to renounce their racism.

[Recursion]

1. Kay Bailey Hutchinson has spoken against the 19th Amendment

Anyone who thinks this fight is settled is wrong.

[get the red out]

4. Didn't Ann Coulter say the same?

wicked people.

[Recursion]

6. Yes

"What can I say about my gender; we're not that bright" when discussing the fact that women favored Kerry over W.

[Kalyke]

2. A better country for whom?

Certainly not for 51 percent of us.

[Kutjara]

5. Not for any of us.

When any member of society enjoys fewer rights than any other, we all lose.

[get the red out]

3. This freak must really be scared of loosing forever

If he wants to totally eliminate the feminine voice. He must be terrified that his hate and rage patriarchy (white patriarchy) might loose out to balanced discussion if he is proposing this. These monsters are feeling some pain to go this far in the open.

[and-justice-for-all]

7. pathetic and sad....nt

[unpossibles]

8. well, they also think that poor people, non-whites, college students

and anyone else who may lean toward sanity should not vote.

Seriously. Quite a few Republicans think that voting should NOT be the voice of the people. For evidence, look no further than their attacks on Acorn, their purging of voter rolls, and other forms of voter suppression. They KNOW they are not in the majority, even when they bluster that they are.

[ccharles000]

9. yup

[redqueen]

10. It's sad that he doesn't see his contentment with white male privilege

as a problem.

Most people know it's wrong, and if they feel that way, they try to hide it.

[Recursion]

11. I'm sure he sees it as white male burden NT

[LeftinOH]

12. I agree - Republican women shouldn't vote; let their menfolk do all the voting.

[mrbarber]

13. You think he let's his wife and daughters have views?

[dalaigh lllama]

14. Well, following his logic here

"He also said that he would like to repeal the 1964 Civil Rights Act because you 'shouldn't try to force people to be good.' "

He must think we should repeal EVERY law governing our behavior in a civilized society, because they're all just forcing us to be good. IOW, he's an anarchist, I guess.

[treestar]

15. Pathetic loser

Some conservatives want the 50s back. This one wants the pre20s back. Good luck with that, asshole.

[anigbrowl]

16. Given the book title, why take it seriously?

I think Derbyshire is a troll, in the sense of saying outrageous thing for the shock value more than because he wants or expects anyone to take it seriously. He likes railing about furriners and building a fence to keep out illegal aliens, but his wife is Asian and he doesn't hide the fact that he used to be an illegal alien himself. Go figure...

[ArbustoBuster]

17. Deport the fucker back to Britain.

If he tries to come back to the US, throw him in the Atlantic and tell him to swim home.

[KamaAina]

18. Here's Derbyshire's travelogue from New Orleans

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OGYzYzI5NzU3ZmEyYWEwYjg5MjBiODdmN2ZmMGE1ZDg=

From the tourist’s-eye view, New Orleans is a black city. The servicepeople at the airport, the hotel, concessions, stores, museums, and fast-food outlets are uniformly black. Most of the people you pass on the street, outside the tourist precincts, are black. I think this is the blackest American city I have been in....

As usual on my first morning in a new city, I left my hotel Saturday morning for a half-hour stroll, to wake myself up, get some flavor of the place, and buy a newspaper and some drugstore items. Walking west and north several blocks from my hotel — the Ambassador on Tchoupitoulas — I did not find a single drugstore, nor any kind of small convenience store of any kind. Nor did I see any boarded-up stores abandoned because of Katrina. I saw nothing but streets full of blank frontages that seemed to have nothing much going on behind them. I suppose some of them were residential, and some commercial, but a lot were just empty ruins — ruins that plainly pre-dated Katrina.

That's because you were in the Warehouse District, ding-dong. If you'd gone the other way, to Canal Street, you would have found two Walgreens and innumerable touristy gift shops-cum-convenience stores. :P Care for more? Here's Derb on crime:

These were educated white liberals — they had been dormitory mates at Harvard — who had returned to New Orleans after Katrina to do good works in “the community.” The husband, a doctor, ran a clinic that turned no one away. The wife... well, let the Times-Picayune tell it:...

What happened to this young couple was unspeakably horrible, and there is of course no excusing such barbarism. It is hard, though, not to shake your head at the couple’s unworldly naivety. What kind of people did they think they were going to encounter when they got down and dirty with “the community”? The Times-Picayune story quoted a neighbor of the couple saying this: “They would never do it, but they should have answered the door with a gun.” Hard to disagree with that — either part of it.

That'd be cold enough even if the victim, Helen Hill, hadn't been a friend of a friend of a friend of mine. :grr: :banghead:

The late New Orleans blogger Ashley Morris had a word for people like Derbyshire. The word is "fuckmook".