I like how the Human Rights Commission is limiting comments on all their bullshit social media adverts because of the naked contempt people publish in response!
They are running around spending money on telling us what we can and can’t say from the very Professional Managerial Class of woke wankers who spend most of their day doing all the things the HRC is telling us not to do.
Should the above be directed at the Wellington Twitterati?
The same people who get woke Lynch mobs to sack people for crimes against woke dogma?
The job of the Human Rights Commission is to protect my speech, it is not tell me what to say!
They have their entire reason for existing around the wrong fucking way!
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Weird how it’s a double standard for woke, who go about cancelling others views – and it’s a serious problem around the world, academic freedom.
No interest from human rights to protect academic freedom.
Woke la la land, taking over NZ education and cancelling Pakeha and Maori when they are British in the name of being anti colonial.
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/siouxsie-wiles-column-on-stuff-co-nz-breached-media-standards/
Hating white people does not get censored.
I think rich white people be forced to confront the children forgotten by capitalism.
Let’s see what would happen if we put in other colours.
I think rich asian people be forced to confront the children forgotten by capitalism.
I think rich black people be forced to confront the children forgotten by capitalism.
I think rich Maori iwi be forced to confront the children forgotten by capitalism.
Shouldn’t that miscarriage of social policy be force fed to rich white people who vote in right wing Governments to get their juicy tax cuts?
Shouldn’t that miscarriage of social policy be force fed to rich asian people who vote in right wing Governments to get their juicy tax cuts?
Shouldn’t that miscarriage of social policy be force fed to rich black people who vote in right wing Governments to get their juicy tax cuts?
Shouldn’t that miscarriage of social policy be force fed to rich Maori iwi who vote in right wing Governments to get their juicy tax cuts?
Not sure what colour adds to the argument. But pretty sure if you put other colours in there, you would get a lot more censorship.
All it does is drive division on race.
That’s what happens when Socialists become National Socialists: They arbitrarily divide by race instead of class, and so here we are. Socialism has metastasized into fascism. It’s happened once before in the 1920’s I believe…
I’m a sweet-tooth. Like cake to eat, so am with Marie Antoinette. But why have just one flavour on offer, allow variety say – marble cake is what would go down well. Mix good ingredients in, have a good recipe, and divide, say into three, one mixed with coconut, a light colour, one with berry flavour a nice pink colour, one with chocolate nicely brown. Just mix through lightly so as not to do more than blend on the edges. Very tasty.
If we appreciate each other, with some tolerance for individual personality and approach, but appreciation of gifts and ideas arising from each culture, and some learning between; end result PDG (pretty damn good). That is what would make a cake to be proud of.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/eatwell/recipes/marble-cake/Z6NQ56XLJOFEGHIJQAC5Y7VYZU/
or
https://fresh.co.nz/marble-cake/
ENJOY!
Start connecting the dots.
Ardern’s speech at the UN, establishment of a disinformation tsar (Kate Hannah), banning of alternative news presenters into the country, this……
There is a determined desire from the government and the PM to limit free speech to new wave left wing, woke ideology. Gone are the days where we could debate politics over a Jug of beer.
You are either part of Wokeborg or you are the enemy.
I hate the tendency that I have, to keep seeing either George Orwell’s imaginings or Brave New World style stuff from Aldous Huxley coming about. But this Human Rights Commissioner thing seems to lead us away from its stated purpose.
The Human Rights Commission is Aotearoa New Zealand’s national human rights institution. The Commission works with the Government and civil society to advocate and promote respect for human rights, and to promote harmonious relations in New Zealand.
Appointment of Human Rights Commissioners – Justice.govt.nz
https://www.justice.govt.nz › justice-sector-policy › appoi.
When people are being defended, protected, who have been victimised, it’s easy to be one-eyed and reverse the process it seems without actually reaching principles of harmony.
This from Wikipedia on word-bending…
Newspeak – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Newspeak
Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. …
and – doublespeak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak
Origins and concepts
The term “doublespeak” derives from two concepts in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, “doublethink” and “Newspeak”, though the term is not used in the book.[4] Another variant, “doubletalk”, also referring to deliberately ambiguous speech, did exist at the time Orwell wrote his book, but the usage of “doublespeak”, as well as of “doubletalk”, in the sense emphasizing ambiguity clearly postdates the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four.[5][6] Parallels have also been drawn between doublespeak and Orwell’s classic essay Politics and the English Language, which discusses the distortion of language for political purposes.[7] In it he observes that political language serves to distort and obfuscate reality. Orwell’s description of political speech is extremely similar to the contemporary definition of doublespeak:
Careful mentioning George Orwell , someone might read Burmese Days , and he’ll be cancelled to. The ultimate irony.
“They are running around spending money on telling us what we can and can’t say from the very Professional Managerial Class of woke wankers who spend most of their day doing all the things the HRC is telling us not to do.”
Unfortunately @ Martyn, the same applies to a huge proportion of the senior ranks in the public service. And the saddest thing is that the Labour party are ‘comfortable’ with it (in this space, going forward)
Public service worker bees are copping it whilst their masters are troughing it.
They’re in for a shock come ’23, and that’s probably the only thing that’s going to wake them up so that we can begin to rebuild.
As you said on the recent Working Group, people are fucking sick to death with “cheap slogans” -PR and spin, marketing the message, and doing SFA else.
We get what we deserve, and so will they.
Nah. They’re just treating us like school kids because that’s the level that they function at themselves. Apparently half of them don’t get along with each other either. Morning group hugs could help – a bit of sharing – weekends away at some fiendishly expensive resort. Roof gardens.
Frank the Tank, Greywarbler et al, thanks for articulating all this. The HRC looks as if it is part of the culture war, and is not merely trying to control people and dumb them down, but possibly to drive out the intelligentsia. This is often the way with revolutions – Stalin – Chairman Mao – the poets, writers, intellectuals- even minor critics are perceived as threats, and silenced one way or another.
Interesting, and not hugely relevant, but nevertheless interesting, was the refusal of political leaders to engage with the Parliamentary protestors – they were lucky Trevor only turned the hoses on them and didn’t dispatch them to the gulag; the junior Greens restrictions on debating similarly misses on the opportunity to be involved in dialogue which can often lead to meaningful unanticipated syntheses, and be hugely enjoyable in the process.
These HRC wee homilies may be deliberately aimed at irritating people, they’re very simplistic and they address values which we acquire in all sorts of ways while growing up and maturing, but which no government department or thought police have any right whatsoever to try and impose on us.
Good parents and good teachers encourage children to learn to make their own decisions, and it is very concerning to see this group having the effrontery to tell New Zealanders how they think they should be behaving, regardless of whether they are right or wrong. In wake of the Arts Council’s paranoid and bizarre allegations about Shakespeare, this appears to be another attempt at controlling how people think, and it’s not ok. Kia kaha.
Why do we have a human rights commission?
Do we have a commission for the not stealing of money from banks? No.
Do we have a commission for the not murdering of anyone we like? No.
Why? Because those things are covered by laws – just as human rights, like the right to unionize, the right to free speech, and the right to privacy should be covered by laws. A commission is just a big red flag that human rights are subject to the vagaries of political opinion and manipulation.
Sure, get rid of the HCR, but make sure you replace it with a constitution (like Act would ever do that).
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