On Sunday, Fox News reported, “Calls to repeal women’s rights to vote are emerging from the online firestorm over the Lindsay Clancy trial, prompting Republican women to warn that the intraparty rhetoric could hurt the GOP.”
The fact that this article was published by Fox News was itself noteworthy. Press Baron Rupert Murdoch is one of the few remaining centers of power on the right who is strong enough to pick fights with Trump and his MAGA supporters. In recent years, Murdoch’s outlets have carved out a position for themselves as gatekeepers who work to protect the GOP brand from the most self-destructive impulses of MAGA. One recent example of this phenomenon is the decision to fire (or at least take off the air) the firebrand election denier Maria Bartiromo.
The Fox article was also significant for highlighting how the tragic case of Lindsay Clancy is being exploited by the hard right to justify misogyny. Clancy killed three of her children in 2023. Her legal defense was that she suffered from postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder. Eleven jurors voted to acquit Clancy based on this argument, but one juror resisted, leading to a mistrial.
Nine of the jurors who voted to acquit—presumably because they thought Clancy deserved pity rather than harsh punishment—were women; the lone holdout was a man. The hard right has seized on these facts to justify arguments that women are incapable of reason. The Fox article quoted a post on X that made a common argument: “The female jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial are speaking out about their deliberations and disagreements with the sole male holdout. The more they speak the better they make the case for repealing the 19th Amendment.”
It was astro turfed though and now maga will use these extreme reactions posted on tiktok to say all women are insane
I said this to you a few weeks ago and you downvoted me and you essentially said i’m crazy but here we are
https://sh.itjust.works/post/66059803/27261304
Yep, I remember you now.
I still don’t watch TikTok.
MAGA would have latched on to anything to say all women are insane or to justify stripping women of our rights. This isn’t new. Hell, a postpartum psychosis murder case isn’t new - look at Andrea Yates.
You were probably pushing that it’s women on TikTok that are causing this like you did in another comment here. Pushing that this is an astro-turfed subject is also pulling the conversation away from reforming healthcare and focusing more on women’s health which is the bigger conversation that’s happening on a larger scale.
No I think the algorithms are controlled by maga and the tiktok users, who happen to be mostly women, are the ones falling for the propaganda in this case
Just like young men latching onto the far right via the algorithms they subscribe to
Why are you so focused on the TikTok aspect of this?
Because that’s where this narrative is primarily coming from. I don’t know why you find this hard to believe really
I’m going to repeat myself from our previous conversation:
This case has gone far beyond just TikTok.
You could conduct your own experiment and hop on the app. Your algorithm will become this almost instantly and you’ll see women saying the ex husband did it probably as soon as you start scrolling
I’m aware of some of the content on TikTok in regard to this case. You’re doing the same thing as MAGA here - conflating a small number of women making social media posts with all women.
There are more reasons that just TikTok that made this case spark such division and passion from people. A lot of that is rooted in the dire lack of women’s healthcare that has been prevalent for pretty much all modern history. That is a conversation worth having instead of trying to blame all reactions on astro-turfing.
Well no i’m playing devil’s advocate because they are highly predictable
And this is probably the first case in history where a parent killing their children has gotten any sympathy. Isn’t that a little odd to you?