Mungo no understand.
Is it just me or is there a terrifying double standard at play here when comparing Sean Plunket and Professor Joanne Kidman?
Plunket was forced to resign from the BSA* for a tweet the woke decried as hate speech yet Professor Joanne Kidman has been appointed to a far more important position as head witch hunter at the Academy of Extremism which will advise the Government and Security apparatus as to who should be targeted by the great lidless mass surveillance Eye of Mordor.
We’ve seen via Professor Joanne Kidman’s own twitter feed the very brittle definitions of what she considers hate speech, she infamously attempted to cancel Trelise Cooper for a ‘hate dress’ and she was vocal in the denigration of the Listener 7 who penned a letter arguing Māori science wasn’t on par with peer reviewed science.
It seems extremism is ok, if you are a woke extremist.
We see this dynamic at TVNZ last week when they went to Emilie Rakete from People Against Prisons Aotearoa for comment when Emilie Rakete has a long history of extremist activism.
Listen to Emilie Rakete on their own podcast if you doubt me…
…that is some jaw dropping extremist hate towards the rainbow community, yet TVNZ still go to them for comment because when it’s woke extremism, the identity politics elites in those news rooms have no problem platforming them, but the second the woke mob turn against you, it’s cancellation city.
Having someone as extreme as Professor Joanne Kidman advising the Government and SIS on who to go after is like the Spanish Inquisition on meth.
The message is clear, woke extremism is fine in the mainstream media, everyone else is a terrorist.
Glad we cleared that up.
*Sean has commented on this and reminds everyone he chose to stand down, which is magnanimous of him because the fury that was whipped up at the time was all encompassing. Sean made the decision to stand down to avoid negatively impacting the BSA’s authority. A position that Professor Kidman might wish to consider?
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The current Labour Government is making some odd appointments, and developing some dictatorship abilities via those units…I reckon Robert Muldoon would pass on this type of carry on.
There’s double the amount of wonks since the 90’s so noatyer what we just have to work with the ones we’ve got.
Odd would be an understatement!
Sean’s a white male. Kidman is the opposite. The algorithm decrees the outcome.
more ‘cultural appropriation’ in the headwear dept from kidman
…the shameful exploitation of a revered cultural icon of a proud and noble tradition, by an uncaring fashionista.
(a). She may simply be transgendering. Many up and down the country are. Be kind. You may want to be her and she you next.
( b) Ever heard of The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party ? It’s located at the topper of the Cable Car now, and it is a Centre of Excellence. That way they all get to call each other, “ Your Excellency”.
(c) A rabbit may be under that hat, or a March Hare, or a gleaming dome, or Trev’s damp Beehive air.
Pip A good bit of light comedy within the discussion. Refreshing ].
Bang on.
Watching the podcast it looks like the protesters are rabidly anti police, rather than anti rainbow
Anker There are strong anti-police elements at play as part of the ‘ divide and rule dialectic’ which isn’t necessarily a woke engineered mechanism globally, I don’t think. The PM’s refusal to review Mallard and co’s antics during the Parliamentary protest, but supporting investigations into police conduct at the same occurrence, adds to this perception, and her implying that an IPCA investigation will reveal or review anything beyond the scope of its own mandate also looked misleading to me. With Ms Kidman now seemingly a government sanctioned censor, she’s obviously in a much more powerful position than Mr Plunket, and possibly imbued with a different cultural tradition which may govern her own responses in certain situations.
Sean is busy taking scalps!
The Platform is the only media outlet that I trust at the moment. He called out the dodgy nepotistic behaviour of Mahuta while major outlets studiously looked the other way. It took the Herald a week to mention it.
Some great interviews on The Platform on Facebook on this topic with Martyn and Karl du Fresne.
Such an unstable appointment is likely to cause more extremism, not less, some of the debate was over if this appointment was made from incompetence, or to deliberately sabotage an incoming government.
The Platform: Sean Plunket interviews journalist and blogger, Karl du Fresne.
https://fb.watch/duwi2i7cR0/
Keepcalmcarryon. It looks as if the appointment was made from incompetence, and the whole concept was a virtue-signalling knee-jerk reaction to something or other, probably another response to the vile Australian runt’s horrific Christchurch massacres.
It’ll be like painting the Firth of Forth Bridge, a never-ending task providing a nice little income stream for paddlers in the shallows trying to control everybody else. Look at how many words or concepts have changed in both meaning and usage in our own lifetimes to see what a stupid idea it is, and how many practices or habits acceptable within one ethnic or social group,are offensive in another.
To be truly excellent – a massively arrogant bit of self- description – it would include philologists or linguists, or both – linguistics is actually quite an exacting and demanding academic discipline; psychiatrists, ie medically trained professionals not the pop variety
who feature on Youtub or who Twitter or tweet; statisticians; trained researchers with
approved conventional methodology; and I’d pop in anthropologists with a more scientifically-based understanding of ethnological differences than sociologists, and maybe a (boring) historian to keep everybody grounded. The last persons who should be included should be anybody with identifiable prejudices or extreme sweeping judgmental opinions about the people who are not like them.
I may reread the infamous heresy trial of that wonderfully erudite New Zealander, Professor Sir Lloyd Geering; perhaps everybody should, or remain forever mute.
She seems like a total Karen tbh
Anyone listening to Plunket would hear a bigoted person who would only let those who agreed with him talk with any length.It was good he was moved on after he showed support for a real racist (John Banks)
Absolutely agree Trevor, he was appalling.
So the burning question is will you guys still vote for Labour next election?
no the burning question is who but a masochist would vote for fester.
Yeah Right, the simply reply is No I won’t vote Labour next election. The appointment of Prof Joanne Kidman is yet another example of ideologically driven decision making/policies, costing the country more and more money and resulting in poor outcomes. The list from Labour is a long one. It seems like everyday there is a new example to add to my list. BTW I am still a member of the L party
The Labour Party has abandoned its old values, what it used to stand for – first the working man and then attempting to include women as worthy of equal respect – and now is like a weather vane, a cock that is elevated to a high place and swings to the prevailing wind of fashion and advantage. It should indeed act on the matters it espouses but its fittings are loose resulting in wild swings, becoming unscrewed, and I predict the cock will fall off its perch or be wrenched off some time in the future.
meh
The first, somewhat coherent post from CB.
The first readable one at any rate
I wish a plague on both their houses.
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