Winston in Wonderland
One can’t throw up in contempt upon David Seymour’s absurd NZ values statement as a response to a confused and angry American Muslim shooting and killing 100 people without casting a weary eye over Winston’s recent antics.
His use of Parliament to twist the Orlando tragedy into a spooky story to frighten voters is just so 1990s. It’s disappointing a politician of his mana resorts to such below the belt political stunts.
Yes we have migration issues. No the Orlando shootings don’t make us next. Yes we need to keep people safe from terrorism. No, there’s not going to be any here. Yes we should do more to welcome refugees and migrants here and explain our cultural values. No, making people salute the flag and sign bits of paper won’t mean a bloody thing.
Winston is knee jerking over his dramatic drop in the internal polling. A Labour Party in alliance with the Greens looks like an Opposition that could win, those Labour voters who had walked away to NZ First have walked home to Labour because they want a change of Government. Winston is throwing punches at everything that moves to try and win more media oxygen to counter this surge towards Labour by trying to win over redneck National types who equate Muslim to terrorist.
Winston’s handling of this is to the right of the Labour Party so it’s an issue he has all to himself, but the simplicity of his solutions are just pantomime and make him look a bit daft rather than critical and stance taking.
It might play well in the provinces, but the urban areas of NZ are simply too cosmopolitan for this cringe inducing petty race baiting.
“The Neverending Hori” would have made a better caption for that image. Though you’re not really Māori enough to pull that off.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hori_(racial_slur)
Hori (racial slur)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term Hori is an offensive derogatory term for a person of Māori descent. The term comes from a transliteration of the English name George, which was very popular during the early years of European colonisation of New Zealand. By means of synecdoche, the term came to be ascribed firstly to any unknown male Māori, and then as a negative epithet to all male Māori.[1] The level of offence implied by the use of the term has varied over time and, of course, with context.
Winston should be talking about guns, males and religious fundamentalism bigotry
Or just homophobia and fear of change if he wants to identify the real core of the problem. Of course neither of those play well with his base.
‘Orlando massacre’
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/346714-orlando-massacre-islam-gays/
“A tragedy difficult to comprehend: The Orlando massacre again brings into stark focus a number of highly contentious issues – immigration, the nature of Islam, gay rights, America’s foreign wars and gun control. What went so terribly wrong?
CrossTalking with Philip Giraldi, Fred Fleitz, and Omar Baddar. “
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