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 ...
Yes, but it's a lot less compelling than the justification for exclusion from boxing given that nobody will permanently injured or die if you do the bookshelf thing. Replace the books with some other anodyne example if you like.
Probably because being a bad faith actor works. The same underlying reason that her allies attacked the Albert Park event – they feel that they are right, that they can get away with it, and that acting unfairly is justified if it furthers their goal.
You're reading too much into it. She's just talking about how female-only spaces are justified using many different reasons. Some of those justifications may allow for transwomen to be fairly excluded; some not. The 'we' in this case just appears to mean ...
Where she starts talking about gender essentialism. She's attributing to gender critical feminists a view they do not hold. "Gender essentialism is the idea that there is an innate, immutable ‘womanness’ or ‘manness’ which expresses itself in what we ...
If you read that kind of stuff, don't expect to learn anything useful. The author makes a fundamental mistake about a minute into the article. You'd be better off reading something written by an expert who understands the underlying issues rather than a ...
Fair comment. I'm deeply sceptical that you or anyone else can retain the left. Politics is realigning in a way that makes old labels less useful. I saw that the Nats came out and said that they supported PP being admitted to the country and being allowed ...
@Weka et al. Puzzled as to why you would care if the left lost the election. Seems obvious to me that you are experiencing the butt end of the political realignment that has been under way for many years now in countries like ours. I’ve been politically ...
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