One in twelve governments of Aotearoaare single term, and incumbency holds great power - so the left should not hold its breath. But agreed Labour absolutely needs to step up, and Greens need to do some self care - the public needs to be presented with a ...
Hi Lynn (and everyone), I hope this finds you well. It's been a while. I'm one of the executive producers of the podcast and, so you know, have never had a problem with rigorous interrogation of shows I've produced. But I'm also protective of rigorous ...
Do we really have to do the handwringing 'look we need to freeze the salaries of those fatcat doctors on $100k' thing in order to mildly criticise this move? This is an awful move by a theoretically Labour government and it's super weird to me that so many...
Always feels like a category error to me to judge a parliamentary political party by the same criteria you judge an activist movement. By definition a political party is there to enact change through what can be done through government and legislation - it...
I think RA knew about his views and his type of posts on his private Facebook account. They made a choice to renew his contract even pay him more. They could have said then lets not renew his contract the risk to losing sponsorship is too high. But they ...
I agree being militant can be part of a reaction to the other side... But I think by targeting people based on their skin colour/sex instead of their actual flaws you add further to polarisation and you can increase the militancy on the other side. That's ...
Why don't you focus more on how entitled and mediocre these people are rather than their skin colour or sex? Your criticism of their skin colour and sex actually adds makes polarisation stronger
Just a general question, some of the threads/comments at some stage lose the ability for me to reply to them, does that mean the moderators have closed it off for everyone or is it specific to me?
She certainly seems a bit daft for so badly misjudging what public reaction to her move would be. From what I saw most of the criticisms were above her behaviour rather than her skin colour or sex.
Alright fair enough then. I guess what I mean is why don't we talk about how unfair it is that women do the vast majority of child rearing for no pay rather than focus on mocking people for their skin colour? Less 'I am womyn hear me roar white male' and ...
I'm not sure if this will be a double post or if my previous reply got deleted, but fair enough. I'm not strongly into veganism either. I was more pointing out that from my perspective you seem to think intersectional feminism is the One True Way
why thank you
Anyone following the Wilfred Laurier debacle? I missed this from earlier but looks like the university finally at least apologised to Lindsay.. And all this over a bizarre argument about the compelled use of nonsensical pronouns http://nationalpost.com/...
Fair enough, I'm not big on veganism, I just think that statement is funny coming from someone who thinks intersectional feminism is the One True Way
[please leave it to weka to release Tim's comments. Keeping an eye on some trolling] why thank you
Weka complaining to someone else they are dogmatic has to be one of the most inadvertently hilarious things ever written here.
It'd be good to have more women writers here who had their head screwed on properly rather than identity politicking types who hilariously sign off their posts with 'A.'
it's also okay to be brown and criticised, like your heroine metiria turei was for her stupid move which rightfully led to her losing her job
Brown person: white people need to shut the hell up White person: brown people need to shut the hell up *White person gets banned* lol gotta love the double standards here at the standard
It's funny that you guys fixate on these people being white males instead of whatever it is you actually think is bad about them When you hear people making fun of Metiria Turei for being stupid or fat at least they don't focus on her skin colour or sex
Or was it interesting to see how little white males on the left could depend on others to defend them against stereotyping? You guys don't try to get anything done other than troll people and provoke reactions out of them [stop trolling. Only warning - ...
Metiria Turei is the brown female of the year for her hilarious stupidity in trying to portray her lying and cheating the system as some sort of virtue... Entertaining as hell lol
You need to get a grip if you think what he's doing is shouting people down..
I agree with you James. Weka does come across as militant and the general atmosphere of her posts/The Standard is anti male and anti white.
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Okay Weka I'm not sure if you'll answer this since it's not directly about the Chinese sounding names debate, but it would be helpful to me to know this.. Do you think individually on average NZ Europeans are more racist than Maori, Pacific, Indian or ...
Weka don't you think it's important to draw a firm line between ethnicity and culture? To lump them together can cause a big problem because obviously some cultures are different than others in important ways - for example it might be in many circumstances...
In general I think people get way too highly strung about this sort of thing. I'm a little bit in two minds about it though. If you're just describing someone based on their appearance then I think saying someone looked Asian or European or African or ...
Maaaaaate! Just make sure you use speech marks in the headline. (3.3.2.1 above)
I remember seeing a real estate agent that looks the spitting image of Johnathan Milne
And I suspect one thing Winnie might suggest - if not Labour of their own volition, is to give both CommComm and Overseas Investment Office some clear guidlines. Often they're little more than rubber stampers.
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