Nick R attempts to lay a trap:
Vox believes that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote, but what about black people? Far more blacks than women are willing to shun a candidate that stands for–in theory, at least–smaller government. More importantly, a much larger percentage of blacks than women are willing to support a candidate that wants bigger government, progressive taxation, legal partial-birth abortions, and so on.
First, it’s worth noting that the American black vote is largely a female vote, since a surprisingly large percentage of black men, having been convicted of felonies, cannot vote. Second, the available evidence strongly suggests that while the female preference for security and big government over liberty and small government is global – and therefore probably inherent – the same is not true for the global black vote.
Take Great Britain, for example. OBV [Operation Black Vote] also aims to convince both politicians and ethnic minority communities of the power of the black vote. Unlike in the United States — where there has long been recognition of a cohesive, if disenfranchised, black vote — in Britain ethnic minorities have been perceived as rather fragmented in their political allegiances.
In many Western European countries, the black vote tends to support the more conservative party, as many of the first- and second-generation African immigrants have direct experience of living under socialist governments and want no part of it. Black societies certainly have no shortage of issues, but unlike feminized equalitarian societies, they are not suicidal, have no problem reproducing themselves and therefore will likely continue to survive even if they remain unlikely to thrive.
But even if this were not so, I would stand by my logic. No group which reliably demonstrates a strong preference for security over liberty should be permitted to vote in any free society that wishes to remain free. The question ultimately boils down to what is more important, the preservation of a fraudulent illusion of limited quasi-democracy or the protection of genuine liberties.