I commented on the Fiji election yestereve, but results reporting stalled before midnight. Appears to have been a tech issue: Supervisor of elections Mohammed Saneem briefed media in the early hours of Thursday morning saying attempts to restart a failed ...
Or be doing 45RPM in his grave!
There doesn't seem to be much interest in today's Fiji election - which, at least to me, seems like the big political story of the day in the Pacific. Provisional results are finally coming out now: Sitiveni Rabuka starts as the frontrunner for Fiji's ...
Molly; any word can be given a strict legal definition, though it may not correspond well to conventional usage within a given portion of the society subject to those laws. The definition of; "Hatred", and whether any other terminology might be preferable ...
The problem with Blanchard's transsexualism typology is that it rests upon a dichotomy of homosexual and autogynephilic transsexuals. Which is insufficient to explain the spectrum of gender diversity even within white trans women in north America, let ...
There are agreed definitions of the words sex and gender amongst biological scientists, though you might not agree with them yourself Visubversa. There is always academic debate, of course; some of it more sincere than others. Here is the WHO definition - ...
I mean that they disappeared; one day they were there, and the next they weren't. Given that it's a community that is almost defined by their difficulty in getting their names on official documents and often lacking traditional families, it has been ...
Anker: There are, and have been, many more gender diverse people in Aotearoa than the three you mention. Many of them died at their own (or another's) hands, disappeared, or been forced to live inauthentic lives behind a socially acceptable mask. So it is ...
SPC, The wording on the; Proposals against incitement of hatred and discrimination, were not at all nebulous. Though it may be over a year since you read the discussion document, the pdf is still available through https://consultations.justice.govt.nz/...
{The previous post was thrown together mostly from unposted writing last weekend (trimmed and updated). This second one dealing with more recent events needs more of a CONTENT WARNING for the references to a mass shooting (particularly in the links). Edit:...
I haven't been onsite this past week to address the Incitement to Hatred and Discrimination legislation that has been drastically watered down as regards the rainbow community of Aotearoa. Various reasons; other commitments, shock, and grieving amongst ...
Weka I did have a (way too long) comment written yestereve that I decided to put aside unposted. Not least because it might be taken, in part, as criticism of site moderators. I may recycle it from word processor folder next week when Sacha is allowed to ...
Just finishing lunchtime and glanced back at this site. Too many responses to reply to now, I will get onto that this evening if I have the energy.
Labour party seems set to sacrifice principles for convenience once again. Which would be surprising, except it really isn't. I don't comment much on this site anymore; given the suffocating transphobia that I find it healthier to avoid subjecting myself ...
More like 30% Ad. But yes, if things don't get sorted next month then it could get messy later. Worst case is a party split because that always gets personal, and it seems unlikey that any offshoot Green party will clear the 5% threshold next year. Its not...
In my experience, delegates are the more active members of the parties, voted for by those who bother to turn up to the local meetings on a regular basis. Though I am mainly familiar with the Green Ōtepoti group, and they are more focused on this year's ...
The surprising thing to me was the increase in delegates opposed to Shaw's coleadership from last year to this. During the Battle of the Jameses election last year: One hundred and sixteen of the delegates voted for Shaw, four voted for Cockle... Twenty ...
https://twitter.com/ClintVSmith/status/1548086635329650689?s=20&t=I_Kq8JuUdp4F88pjddU-kQ
The Franco-Peredes Lancet letter from which you quote is not scientific research: Rosemary McDonald. Rather it is a comment on a study by Singanayaman et al (2021): Community transmission and viral load kinetics of the SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) variant ...
This is starting up again; though probably too late now for this year's local body elections, and likely next year's general election too: A youth-led campaign to lower the voting age to 16 is being heard in the Supreme Court today. Make it 16 will have ...
Apparently not; DMK, because hate crimes do not yet legally exist as such in Aotearoa. Up at comment 2.1.1, I linked to the Sentencing Act 2002 which appears to guide police understanding of hate crime being "hostility towards a group of persons" as an ...
The simplified version may not include the "protected characteristic of sex", but it seems to be covered under the; "such as", in s9(1) (h) referenced in the 2021 data quality review: that the offender committed the offence partly or wholly because of ...
It's been a week or so since I was onsite with events overseas, but I thought I had made it clear that I was referencing: a particular variety of "Christianity". The quotation marks indicating that some might regard it as Christianity in name only, more a ...
This vandalism was a lot more pre-meditated than I first realized. Also, the "synagog of Satan" graffiti makes more sense now I know the resident's upbringing: The police summary of facts said Pattinson was one of four men who planned for weeks to ...
The parents may not be even aware that their children are LGBTQ+ at the time they enroll them at the school. Farrier quotes Ro Bright: There has always been queer and gender-diverse kids at Bethlehem College. I know this as I was a non-binary/trans kid ...
Where is Barnett supposedly lost in search of Blanchard's dubious term; "autogynephilia", Visubversa? Her writing seems to be more about her own experience with aging in Aotearoa as a cis woman, than her trans parent anyway. Though I admittedly haven't ...
It does seem to be a particular variety of "Christianity" that is often the wellspring of the exclusionary doctrine which provides the sociocultural springboard for hatred: Throughout the 80s and 90s, evangelicals and other born-again type congregations ...
I saw that over on Stuff earlier - neither they nor RNZ give any suggestion who might be his replacement (Carter seems to have burned that bridge for himself). Has anyone heard any rumours?
Hopefully Barnett has gifted a copy of Notes on Womenhood to the Dunedin public library. She does have a nice turn of phrase (eg preceding the too brief twitter quote): I have only seen my father, Nikki, in a suit twice in my life, once at my sister’s ...
Thanks for the link McFlock, I did look at it on Monday night (am not the best at navigating Twitter myself). Should have replied to this thread before, but mobile commenting on TS wasn't working for some reason and I have not had desktop time for the last...
https://twitter.com/swordsjew/status/1537558531502755840?s=20&t=FTKQZ2P4-pM7bBiUQZXOPA Not sure if that tweet has imbedded, so I will copy and paste some of the thread too (from Jewish granddaughter of holocaust victims who; concerned by the rise of ...
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