Re: BBC: fascism spawned by suffragism

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:13:12 -0800, Mark Borgerson
<mborgerson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <cbd5k5ln16237cj2vepnt8gidjah81hmj7@xxxxxxx>,
lloydsofhanford@xxxxxxxxx says...
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 12:35:58 -0800 (PST), Stephen Morgan
<grauniad2liberty@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pk7zp

In 1914 Norah Elam was placed in a Holloway prison cell with Emmeline
Pankhurst for her involvement with the Suffragette movement. In 1940
she returned to the same prison with Diana Mosley, but this time for
her involvement with the fascist movement.

James Maw explores this story and how Norah Elam's fascist philosophy
grew directly out of her involvement with the suffragettes, and how
subsequently the British fascist movement became largely driven by
women. James tells how the first British fascist movement was founded
by a woman, and that it was the leading lights of the Suffragettes
who, along with Oswald Mosley, founded the British Union of Fascists.

Blackshirts targeted young women from an early age; James begins with
the story of his own mother, whom - at the time working in an ink
factory - they attempted to recruit when she was 16 in 1937.

Francis Beckett recounts how his mother was recruited when she was
sent by the Pitman's secretarial agency to work at Mosley's
headquarters and how he has been vehemently anti-fascist all his life
and has worked tirelessly to clear the family name of the stigma he
feels.

Angela McPherson had no idea until recently the role her own
grandmother played at the very centre of the fascist movement; she had
subconsciously blocked out disturbing memories of the events and
stories her grandmother told her as a child, which were to affect her
family until the present day.

James learns how powerful fascist women became and what the long-term
effects their right-wing beliefs had on their children and
grandchildren.


Somewhat along the same lines, an economist named John Lott wrote a
book a few years ago called "Freedomnomics".

Among the things that he does in the book is to show a statistical
correlation between female suffrage and the growth of government.


DOH! Twice as many voters demands twice as much government, doesn't it?
;-)


Mark Borgerson


Uh, no.

Because if everything were equal, you might just as easily argue that
twice as many voting taxpayers would mean twice as many people
demanding a reduced role for government.

Anyway, you would need to read the analysis before being qualifed to
comment on it.
.

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    (soc.men)
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    ... Pankhurst for her involvement with the Suffragette movement. ... James Maw explores this story and how Norah Elam's fascist philosophy ... grew directly out of her involvement with the suffragettes, ... subsequently the British fascist movement became largely driven by ...
    (soc.men)
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    ... Pankhurst for her involvement with the Suffragette movement. ... subsequently the British fascist movement became largely driven by ... Twice as many voters demands twice as much government, ...
    (soc.men)