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.
Nailed it Martyn. The Greens have got to be THE most middle-class party of our awfully incredibly middle-class parliament.
Hear, hear…
seconded
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.
I must admit and I say this as a former brit..I’m amazed by how many foreign ‘experts’ are employed by both business and govt in NZ…from that grating voiced canadian(?) who boosts nz business on national to any number of ‘academics’…kiwis are pretty smart surely we could fill some of these positions, or is it because foreigners having no commitment to the country will be more willing to do fucked shit cos they don’t really care.
has anyone noticed a lot of the ‘NZ paradise’ vids on youtube are presented by nice upper middle class foreigners who’ve bought a house in ‘wine country’ it’s false advertising and frankly they make me puke…they don’t know or care about actual kiwis.
Welcome to the American dream gagarin. We are yet another of their blue eyed outposts.
nailed it! gagarin. Condescending know it alls who have no fucking idea of what it means to be born and raised here. And who aren’t interested either they’re just shit scared of the country they escaped from and think we will be stupid enough to be impressed by them …and sadly we are far too often.
Smart kiwis leave and never come back! or only to retire.
just so you know shona I wasn’t born and raised here but I work and pay tax here and became a citizen at the first opportunity because if you want whinging rights you have to commit first…..I just observe reality
It is all deliberate. New Zealanders know to much about how govt department should be run in New Zealand.
Yep x100.
It’s weird really. We do have a number of suitable people to take on roles in gummint and the public service but there’s this silly idea that someone parachuted in from the former Empire or jurisdictions that were part of the Empire are somehow superior to our home grown.
I can’t take most of them seriously but more often than not they bring with them their various “unconscious biases” and bullshit policies not really that suited to the little Pacific nayshun of NuZull that punches above its weight.
Just as an example on Immigration/Refugee policy – I’d take the ‘reckons’ of Paul Spoonley, and a couple of other “brown people” -indigenous and imported many years ago more seriously than I would, and can the recent arrivals from supposedly esteemed careers in places like Okkerland or trained by the likes of Blair and Boris’ juntas.
Fear not though. Usually they eventually out themselves. (good things, like festering cheese take time), but watch when they fall how they’ll attempt to portray themselves as victims.
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.
we could of course utilise our local resources like hydro..putins gas isn’t much use to us anyway..
germanys ‘cheapest option’ failure is not an indictment of green energy but an indictment of german capitalism