Sorry Lynn. I've long since learned not to take anything you say seriously. You're all bluster and no brains (you brag about having an MBA... lol).
The idea that there are special rights that attach to people because they are indigenous is exactly what is in dispute. You'll won't convince the other side if you just assert that they are nothing to worry about.
This post ignores the common principle in moral philosophy that fundamentally unjust agreements cannot be enforced. To wit, article 2 allows Māori undisturbed possession of their properties, which at the time included other Māori. Insofar as 'properties' ...
The antisemitism accusations were a beat up because Corbyn took the Palestinian side – thus he had to be destroyed pour encourager les autres. The UK is a joke country with joke politics. If you think the average voter in NZ is stupid, wait until you talk ...
Gender is a social construct used by the patriarchal system we live in to control women because without our bodies and reproductive capacities there would be no capitalism. It's only a conspiracy theory when they do it...
Nice disjunction, since conventional views are on the whole not reality based.
This stuff is dreck – it's just an absolute waste of everyone's time. Degrowth is not a politically sellable strategy, particularly for people in developing nations. If there is a solution, it will be based on technology, probably including a revival of ...
So Trump is in cahoots with the Jews. It all makes sense now. Wake up sheeple!
Which empire would you rather be part of? Catch: you have no choice but to be part of one.
One of the reasons they don't have to ask is that the United States did the bulk of the work to prevent Australia and New Zealand being overrun by the Japanese Empire. Ask any Korean what that's like. We don't do stupid **** like Iraq, but if they really ...
No. The message is that poor mental health must be disqualifying for certain occupations, including being a cabinet minister.
But you appear to need common figures of speech explained to you.
Because of how we think. This tired old rubbish again. Countless historical human communities have undermined themselves and almost all of them did not practice 'western modes of thought'. Ignorance, superstition, motivated reasoning, shortsightedness, ...
Exactly.
This is just woo. I spent an awful lot of time in academia and met and worked with some extraordinarily smart people over that time. In that time I learned over an over again that 'holism' and 'systems' are buzzwords most often used by the sophistic and ...
The words "holism" and "systems" are meaningful words, in and of themselves and useful when used properly. However, they more often signal woo, which is what is happening here. Who thought that putting people who don't really believe in science in charge ...
My guess is that the new curriculum is written by people with education PhDs – which are considered joke qualifications among others with PhDs. In my experience they are generally not very bright and spend a lot of time promoting philosophical ideas they ...
If journalists are participating wittingly in National's attack strategy, they need to find another job. If they are doing it unwittingly, then they're just dumb and need to find another job.
There's an old children's game called 'Buckaroo' where you pile items on the back of an irritable plastic donkey until it kicks them all off. The Treaty is a bit like that – the text is obviously unable to bear the weight it is now expected to carry. I'm ...
From that article: And actually all these people, with rare exception, when one gets to know them, are actually good people who we need in our society for their sake and for our sake. These people are feral, depraved, and beyond help. It's not really their...
That doesn't effectively address gangs, where the problem is the organisation rather than the individual members. Gangs, and organised crime in general, are hydrae – imprison one member and they will just recruit more, often from vulnerable areas of ...
...reality and perception are not always in close agreement when it comes to matters of crime and fear of crime. They are now. Even in my sleepy, middle-of-the-road neighbourhood the local dairy has been hit a couple of times and a number of other shops I...
This is what happens when your culture refuses to treat ignorance as a moral failing.
Maori have preferential treatment because of the Maori electorate seats. They do. Since the Māori seats always elect Māori representatives, it sets a lower limit for the number of Māori in the house depending on how many Māori choose the Māori roll. No ...
Ugh. One of the things holding feminism back is that people still believe in this dreck. Everyone knows hunter-gatherer societies were more egalitarian (although still awful to live in. Everyone also knows that farming societies eventually end up being ...
That's true for the US, which is an outlier in many ways. However, the fact remains that the trans activists and gender ideologues have successfully co-opted the NZ left. Of course there are left-leaning New Zealanders who disagree with the gender ...
So they want a parliament, just like the Scots or Welsh. The problem with that is that those parliaments set rules for well-defined geographic areas. Similarly, with the Canadian province of Quebec. No such geographic area exists for Māori that they would ...
I've heard this sort of stuff from people like that for years (often at universities, which shows you how realistic it is). It's fine to chat about – but that's about it. If they want to burn the institutional and political clout they already have, these ...
I consider myself reasonably progressive when it comes to indigenous rights, but with a few exceptions this reads like the ravings of a lunatic.
There's a big difference between authoritarianism as a means (like cancel culture) and authoritarianism as an end (like full on state-enforced racial and sexual hierarchies). The gender ideologists are more the former than the latter. Much 'wokeism' is ...
This is why you are going to lose. The average person will be difficult to persuade about these peripheral issues—hardly anyone cares about books because hardly anyone reads. Because too many GCFs lump these peripheral issues in with things that everyone ...
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