I just realized I have no idea why this happened. Does anyone have a good dialectical materialist explanation?

  • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
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    8 months ago

    that's definitely part of it, and played a role in women's suffrage

    The only hope of the Anti-Saloon League's success lies in putting the ballot into the hands of women. --Susan B. Anthony

    and this is an opportune moment to highlight one of my favorite temperance movement members: hatchet granny

    for years she tried to dissuade people from drinking or providing alcohol, but since that didn't work she eventually resorted to just attacking bars and taverns with a hatchet and destroying their alcohol supplies

    Nation died on June 9, 1911. She is buried in the southeastern side of Belton Cemetery in Belton, Missouri. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union later erected a stone inscribed "Faithful to the Cause of Prohibition, She Hath Done What She Could" and the name "Carry A. Nation".

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      I've seen signs in bars saying "we serve all nations except Carrie" and never knew what it meant