No where is the dreaded Green Party Stockholm syndrome better seen on display than Luke Malpas’s latest column on the ridiculous Refugee Policy we are spinelessly giving the Australians.
Nows before I start the kicking, I need to acknowledge that I actually like and respect Luke’s work, he is one of the rare Stuff columnists that you need to read daily, he’s that good, but on this occasion he’s simply managed to channel all that is wrong with Stuff Journalism in one column.
The dreaded Green Party Stockholm syndrome is a term to describe the symbiotic nature of a group with its twitter followers living in their twitter echo chamber.
It was used to describe what happened when the Green Party attempted to push for ‘sustainable’ immigration which of course was immediately construed by the Green Party middle class wokies as anti immigration. Within days the Greens had dropped sustainable from their immigration policy and it’s all open door flood gates now.
This is because for many middle class people, they have trans national skills that are sellable on the global market, the freedoms to move and migrate then becomes an existential one for these middle class activists and thus they view migration rights as a personal interest they are deeply invested in.
Anyone who threatens those migration freedoms is immediately xenophobic and racist.
Stuff is the wokest media in NZ who are constantly begging their readers for donations, seeing as the reading audience are as equally woke as the news organisation, every column must obey to woke dogma and thus Luke’s shallow defence off this bullshit Australian refugee policy is writ large on the pages of a news organisation that is never ending in its bleating for MIQ rights for migrant workers.
Those New Zealander’s who have to struggle and compete for resources like housing and public transport services and jobs against exploited migrant workers can go fuck themselves because they are racist for questioning immigration that has replaced actual economic growth for raw unsustainable growth.
So the middle class woke who hold Stuff hostage on any issue regarding migration (and identity) will be cheering Luke’s phenomenal intellectual flexibility as he tries to defend the indefensible of us taking Australia’s refugee problem despite a total damnation of this entire fiasco, point by point, by Dr Bryce Edwards who demolishes Luke’s bullshit arguments in terribly fine detail.
You can’t read this and think Luke is remotely connected to reality.
Luke has to play to his woke audience who hold Stuff hostage and who see migration rights as their own ability to move freely around global job markets and this self interest is given the moral authority of ‘Xenophobia’ and ‘racism’ rather than a true examination of the economic exploitation that motivates so much of NZ immigration policy.
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Oh, and fuck letting the Australians off the hook for their racist refugee stunt while deporting 501s to NZ which has started a gang war!
But Luke won’t say that.
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One of the primary contradictions of neo liberal globalisation has always been that freedom of movement across national borders is promoted, sanctioned and enforced for Capital but not for Labour.
Business can go pretty much the fuck it wants to in the world-“low wages with that tax free zone sir…” but oppressed and exploited workers are expected to stay put until required for this or that shit job and then sent packing again.
Sure, many middle class people seem to think it is their right to roam the globe as they please, and why wouldn’t they given that their masters and the class they often aspire to join do so.
Not forgetting wealthy foreign tourists buying bolthole New Zealand property and businesses rubber stamped by the OIO as easy as shitting in bed.
You make a fair point Martyn – it’s a mess and the Greens in particular are the biggest hypocrites in the country. Have you noticed how in recent years the Greens have become infested with rich yanks who have somehow slithered their way into the country and now are telling us how to run the place? Maybe they should go back to California and fix the environmental nightmare they left there.
Oh and by the way – they’re not actually refugees. If they were, they could have applied to the UN and Aussie would have let them in as part of their refugee quota. These people are just economic migrants who broke Australia’s immigration law. Kiwis aren’t really in a place to criticize because we have the tightest rules in the world and just hide behind our 2,000 mile wide moat.
Andrew do you mean Green MP’s? There is only one born in the US isn’t there? JA Genter
Andrew you sound like my late ‘Ten Pound” Tory Pommie mate who arrived in Aotearoa from the low classes, got a job as a tradesman in a foundry, bought some land and then acted above his station and considered himself a Governor and a tory. When he bought the land, he said he would still drink with me in the public bar.
All the MPs in Parliament have to be NZ citizens. The greens have many foreign born MPs and I will strategically vote for them (or Pati Maori) especially if jacinda and labour are well ahead in the polls.
Anything green is gangrous!
“Stuff is the wokest media in NZ”…c’mon Bomber! Surely that title is held by the Spinoff!
…though you maybe be right…The Spinoffs loud and proud Wokeism barely cuts it as media. More like a bunch of uncomfortable teens printing up a “Zine” that no one will read on their parents photocopier.
Green energy policy that has seen Germany close nuclear and coals fired electricity plants and moving to “clean and green” energy sources…. as well as a lot of Russian natural gas (when it’s not sourced locally it’s obviously 100% green and good for the planet!), are sure regretting those decisions now.
https://www.rt.com/business/552844-g7-rejects-rubles-gas/
New Zealand should not strive to be more like Germany, imo.
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