Shelly Garland blog was not done in our name, says CDE
The man behind a fake blog calling for white men to be disenfranchised was a researcher at the Centre for Development and Enterprise
Huffington Post SA has tracked down the real author of a blog post titled "Could it be Time to Deny White Men The Franchise?" which was published on the news website last week. The author‚ Marius Roodt‚ submitted the piece under the pseudonym Shelley Garland – and the post went viral. The blog caused a public outcry on social media due to its content‚ which argued that white men were to blame for "some of the biggest blows to the progressive cause"‚ citing Donald Trump being elected as US president and the UK’s Brexit vote. The "progressive cause" could be strengthened by denying white men the right to vote.
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