The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday – 20th May 2021

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18 COMMENTS

  1. My goodness me there’s been a lot of anti-maori sentiment on this site over the past few weeks. It’s been wrapped up in just about every style, to try to mask the distinctive odour. Does democracy have a skin colour? I mean, conceptually, not the actual version we have in NZ. A couple days ago I watched Tame Iti espouse the actual foundations of democracy. When people talk about defending democracy, which version do they mean?

    • all overlayed with the same rhetoric…’I’m not racist but’ and ‘I want a conversation’ and ‘just asking questions’. My favourite is ‘what dog whistle?’

      • Can’t you talk to me face on. Or are you just gutless. It seems your random comment is referring to me. Are you sure you’re not racist.

        • You seem to have outed yourself NV. I did engage with you on your reply to my post. I replied to you without abuse even after you implied I was ignorant. You asked ‘where is the dog whistle?’ I pointed out Judith’s facebook site with some of her supporters making comments that seemed to prove my point. You dismissed that as something you have no time for. Fair enough. I replied again as I’m always happy to engage but had no reply. I can assure you I am not ‘gutless’ and more than happy to engage if the respondent can manage to keep the personal abuse down. Obviously that is a problem for you. Say that to my face, in person, and we’ll see who is really gutless unknown keyboard warrior that you are. I’ll let your posts speak for themselves as I let mine speak. Readers can make their own mind up who has the racist tendencies. Sorry I didn’t get to reply to your abuse earlier, but busy on the tools all day today in sunny Masterton and just back in the door after a long day. Really made my day to get your post arsehole.

          • Sorry for saying you’re gutless. Obviously not true. I don’t believe I’m an arsehole and try to have a balanced view. Maybe you should read my post commenting on “TV3 pole journalism or propaganda “ May 18 8.39am again. Or maybe you haven’t read it.

                • and your post you want feedback on literally says ‘I don’t think of myself as racist, but…’
                  as well as the later classic ‘what dog whistle?’ in reply to me. Fair and balanced indeed.

                  • I don’t see myself as racist because I wouldn’t support parallel services. Some of those who accuse JC of being racist should make sure they are not making a racist assessment themselves. In other words JC or myself aren’t racist because we don’t agree with parallel services. That’s the only point I was trying to make. I don’t see any opposition of any government who questions the sitting government on anything as “dog whistling” Of course that opposition is trying to score points, but they also disagree with the sitting Government on that point. If you don’t like what they say you don’t vote for them. It’s pretty simple.

                    • Looks like the majority don’t like what she has to say and won’t vote for her. You are right, it is that simple. Calling out racism is racist in itself because you should just ignore it as it? If I see a bunch of white fellas marching down my street yelling Blacks and Jews won’t replace us, that’s not something I will choose to ignore. Can I suggest changing your handle to ‘old view’.

  2. Interesting. As I look out the window after the budget announcement, and still now – EVERY high rise building has its lights ablaze. And it isn’t because of minimum and below wage cleaners either.

    A little earlier, I took a walk down the so-called golden mile. There were double the number of specimens still displaying their ID cards – as in – look at moi look at moi, as they ventured out to drinkies and sufustikayshun.

    Bloody amusing day, all things considered

    • You’re right. Not disturbing present reality is the worst thing you can do before terminal proximate reality.

      I was just grateful they finally acted for the poorest after 30 years.

  3. Of all the money that ever I had, I have spent it in good company
    And all the harm I’ve ever done, alas, it was to none but me
    And all I’ve done for want of wit, to memory now I can’t recall
    So fill to me the parting glass, Good night and joy be to you all.

  4. Psychiatrist of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Commits Suicide.
    By Michael K. Smith Legalienate News Bureau

    Anguished Suicide Note Cites ‘Deluge of Doublethink’ In Driving Kind-Hearted Shrink to Despair

    Moshe Yatom, a prominent Israeli psychiatrist who successfully cured the most extreme forms of mental illness throughout a distinguished career, was found dead at his home in Tel Aviv yesterday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. A suicide note at his side explained that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been his patient for the last nine years, had “sucked the life right out of me.”

    “I can’t take it anymore,” wrote Yatom. “Robbery is redemption, apartheid is freedom, peace activists are terrorists, murder is self-defense, piracy is legality, Palestinians are Jordanians, annexation is liberation, there’s no end to his contradictions. Freud promised rationality would reign in the instinctual passions, but he never met Bibi Netanyahu. This guy would say Gandhi invented brass knuckles.”

    http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_60352.shtml

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