Warren supporters won’t back Bernie – Identity Politics and modern political culture doesn’t work like that
Under Identity Politics, an ally is just someone who hasn’t oppressed or triggered you yet.
Year: 2020
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Hypocrisy and political cultural resentment: The desperate last stand of Shane Jones
if all Shane has to offer is his usual Shakespearian word salads from the Great Waa Waa of the North, he’s not going to sate the lust for radical change that a growing segment of the voting population are demanding.
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Mining fiasco highlights Green Party impotency
Nothing manages to sum up the impotency of the Greens in power quite like any decision by the Ministry captured Minister Sage or this fiasco over mining…
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MEDIAWATCH: Precious Journalists behind Paywalls shouldn’t throw RNZ rocks
Nothing is more gloriously tedious in the schoolyard of life than bitchy media companies playing Mean Girls with one another and then competing to virtue signal their outrage olympics as to who has been hurt the most.
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Remembering Jeanette Fitzsimons, a great Green
The news of Jeanette Fitzsimons’ death is so sad for me as a friend and former parliamentary colleague. She symbolized Green politics and was totally committed to the welfare of the planet and the people on it.
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On Trump’s Nixonian “Peace With Honour” In Afghanistan
So over the past few days in Afghanistan, there’ve been more than six dozen Taliban attacks and the US has resumed airstrikes against them. Yet I seem to keep running across people hailing Trump as some kind of visionary diplomatic savant (as opposed to the *other* kind of savant) who’s scored some kind of history-diverting coup in securing a sort of ‘peace with honour’ deal in Afghanistan.
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Greenpeace Gunges Fertiliser Company
Management at Ravensdown fertiliser company in Christchurch are arriving at work this morning to discover they’ve been slimed. The main…
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Armed Police Reveal Prompts National Day Of Action – People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Community organisations are rallying nationwide after data revealed police Armed Response Teams were primarily being used for routine policing, says…
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Sir Peter Gluckman leads think tank focused on critical global issues – Koi Tu – The Centre for Informed Futures
Countering the global rise of misinformation and declining public trust with robust research and evidence-based advice is the fundamental goal…
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ALRANZ Salutes Second Reading Passage Of Abortion Bill
ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa salutes the New Zealand Parliament’s passing of the Abortion Legislation Bill at second reading, 81 to…