The comments of chiefs at the signing make it clear they knew the treaty meant recognizing the authority of the British monarch over them. Some of them were uncomfortable with the idea, but signed anyway. And Sir Apirana Ngata was in no doubt that the ...
Why does Seymour need an "expert in Te Reo"? All too often, "expert" turns out to mean an activist. And judges and politicians have been redefining the treaty for decades, so why single out Seymour's initiative? What on earth is "racist" about insisting on...
No, just a test to see if the contemporary left has a sense of humour. The test is clearly negative.
What exactly is racist about wanting equality of all NZers before the law, or about wanting to stop distortion of the treaty by activist judges? I support certain special rights for Maaori, like rights to practice traditional harvesting. But in most things...
What exactly is "racist" or "transphobic" about the current government?
Are you sure they were strawmen? I hope you haven't misgendered any hypothetical straw people. [lprent: Bad idea trying to get a troll rise off an author. It irritates me becasue it wastes my time. Count yourself warned. ]
"see how our people can rise to the challenge of those who would divide us too" Those who would divide us? That's newspeak for "those who disagree with contemporary woke orthodoxy". Yes Trump's rhetoric is often divisive. But it's frankly dishonest to ...
"these are letters, not “articles” So what? How does that invalidate anything I've said? Hopefully you have more to offer than pedantry. "As you know, RSNZ did not cancel anybody’s membership." As YOU know, I did not say that RSNZ cancelled anybody's ...
The response of Black and Tylianakis doesn't "take apart" anything - like you, all they have to offer is pedantry and equivocation. And it's not clear that you've understood much - contrary to what you've just said, neither of the two critiques claims that...
There is hope for NZ science after all! Kudos to the authors of these two articles in Science for daring to speak truth to power, and to the editor who found the courage to accept these articles for publication – she risked being fired due to activist ...
Cop-out. The Ardern government kept their ethnostate agenda well-hidden before the 2020 election, so if anyone's guilty of "duping" the NZ public it was them.
Did Labour tell voters about their ethnostate agenda before the 2020 election?
Fair point, assuming you're open to the possibility that some voters might have been duped by Ardern and friends in the previous election.
The health sector is racist, according to this article in Stuff: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350331208/racism-against-maori-medical-students-and-doctors-widespread-study-finds The evidence? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/article-...
What exactly is "colonialist" about our mindset in NZ?
Incitement to violence (or to commit any other crime) has long been a crime under English law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchoate_offences_in_English_law So why is more legislation needed?
Yes, that's what I mean by Blair's cultural revolution. Blair was attacked by class leftists for being too "centrist" in his economics, but he was anything but centrist when it came to culture. He was the archetypical modern leftist. Blair effected a ...
I try to avoid listening to Bishop and Willis.
An article in "The Conversation" doesn't prove anything. "Islamophobia" and "racism" are different things.
So you think inequalities of outcome can only be the result of discrimination? Can you not think of any other factors that might be involved? In both Europe and North America, Jews are overachievers in many fields of endeavour. This despite facing ...
Too right Anker. The self-righteousness of the contemporary left is a massive turn-off.
No stretch at all - they were talking about Islamophobia, not "racism". But "racism" is of of course the contemporary left's biggest single obsession. As for your "moral indefensibilty of rabidly-expressed English racism", according to the Washington Post,...
By your logic, the 2017 Labour-NZF coalition (with confidence and supply from Greens) was also negotiated, rather than elected. After all, it was the Nats (led by celebrity pizza chef Bill English) who won the most votes and the most seats on election ...
Oh dear. I hope that YOU are merely gaslighting, and don't actually believe what you've just written. Rashbrooke accuses the UK Tories of "wanton destruction", when their actual crimes are incompetence and failing to deliver on a key promise - curbing ...
Starmer may be a centrist on economics, but not on culture. I think we can expect him to continue Blair's cultural revolution. Here's Sir Keir chatting to Sadiq Khan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84W1BIu-Gr0 It gets interesting from 1:27 onwards, when ...
Rashbrooke doesn't deserve any plaudits for pointing out the bleeding obvious - the UK election wasn't won by Labour, it was lost by the Tories - a party who now seem to have no idea what they stand for. But I'd be interested to know what sort of "wanton ...
Going to Blackball was a smart move by Jones, accepting the opportunity offered by Labour's mutation into a woke identity-focused party of the PMC. [Fix the typo in your user name in your next comment - Incognito]
Yes you have to wonder what the Tories have to show for their 14(!) years in power. I'm surprised to hear your friend's take on the current Tory party - most of them look to me like liberals rather than conservatives (let alone fascists), some almost as ...
Of course it's your right to moderate your posts as you see fit. And a moderator's decisions tell readers a lot about him/her as a person.
Well that contributes nothing new. And I'm not sure how I've given you grounds for believing I'm an advocate of free-market neoliberalism - I'm not.
Your moving my comment to Open Mike is misleading, as you've divorced it from the comment by Patricia Bremner that I was responding to. Posted here divorced from its context, it DOES look like Nats/ACT propaganda (nice one). But in the original context I ...
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