So The Spinoff is little more than a woke social engineering project funded with public money for identity politic Millennials, and because it is public money, we are all allowed to critique it. To date, The Spinoff has managed to gain over $6million in public money so critiquing what it generates is actually a very necessary function of any critical media analysis of the NZ media landscape.
Last week they published another terrible piece from Toby Morris, I’m not sure why I detest his cartoons so much, I think it’s the weird pupils. Anyway, let’s go through this to appreciate the pure gasp inducing audacity of woke Millennial identity politics…
So far so good, yes, scapegoats have been used in human society since day dot. The desire to blame all of the community woes on one group of people is a cheap and easy means of glossing over deeper issues and it’s a well worn path throughout human history.
Yes, I just said that Toby.
Again, I think we all agree with Toby on these dynamics and how they play out, but then, then it suddenly takes an odd turn…
…wait, what?
Look, yes of course society has in the past used ignorance and bigotry to scapegoat societal outsiders to blame for deeper problems, b-u-t is that why the Trans community have drawn criticism in NZ?
While I am sure there are homophobic and transphobic bigots in NZ who get their knickers in a. twist about Drag Queens reading stories to children, hasn’t the vast majority of the criticism been because of the manner the woke have advanced their cause with militant and aggressive cancellation tactics and of course the mob violence at the Posie Parker fiasco?
Ummmmmmmmm. Is that a picture of the Posie Parker protest?
Is Toby honestly drawing a picture of the Posie Parker mob violence while denouncing any evidence of violence by that community?
Only taxpayer media has this capacity for audacity.
Notice how everyone in the cartoon is happy and not violent, which wasn’t what happened eh?
I’ve always found it funny with suicide stats that they are overwhelmingly male and it is overwhelmingly a male problem, yet men seem to always get forgotten and pushed aside if a minority wants to use suicide stats to highlight their alienation.
Couldn’t the exact same logic being used here be applied to men as a whole as well?
Look, I’m digressing, my point is we should probably be kinder to everyone, anyway yes, it isn’t good that the trans community feel alienated in their own communities and of course they should be able to use public toilets, but those issues were eclipsed by the mob violence on the day of the protest that Toby is drawing.
I think you mean increased prejudice and confusion CAUSED BY the militant activism of the woke.
Sure.
I think the guy with the beard wearing the green jacket was the non binary activist who punched that grandmother in the face.
The vast majority of Kiwis have no problem with the trans community, and will of course use whatever pronoun they chose and acknowledge whatever identity they want to be known as because that’s the basic courtesy we offer each other in a liberal progressive democracy.
The issue is when that inclusion becomes exclusion…
…the tiny percentage of Trans and non binary activists want to eclipse the rights and language of biological women and in that, there is legitimate criticism and counter arguments.
To frame this as irrational scapegoating hate is to misrepresent the entire argument, which is exactly what Toby is doing.
wait, wait, wait. Sure, those things happen and occur, but what the fuck has any of that got to do with criticism of online woke cancel culture bullying and the mob violence at the protest that shut down free speech?
This next panel is so hilariously audacious it inadvertently reflects every virtue signal The Spinoff espouses…
…can you believe that?
Clearly you are not here to debate the issues because every cartoon is a fun love filled peace fest!
It’s very important for the woke narrative to tell you the aggression you saw with your own eyes was joyful and loving…
…in a weird Orwellian 1984 torture session, the Woke are holding up 4 penis’s and asking you how many penis there are, and you say 4 and they scream ‘They aren’t penises they are vaginas’!
I’m no fan of Parker, as far as I am concerned she is a Toxic Trans Troll fear grifter who loves this reaction and attention.
I believe our RNZ reviewer, Tim Selwyn, managed to do a devastating critique of the intellectual infrastructure of Posie Parker and highlight what a grifter she is.
However Parker is a manifestation of a cancel culture where these issues can’t be debated because of woke social media lynchings.
The goals of inclusion aren’t in debate, the hyper aggressive manner in which the debate has been progressed is what people find ugly and disagree with.
The woke call what happened at that protest ‘Pure Trans Joy’, but the wider community were shocked at the vigilantism by the identity politic allies. Watching state funded media ignore those issues to claim victimhood and the moral high ground is extraordinary and highlights their extremism.
We get it wokies, your self created identity trumps our shared humanity.
Neato.
Can the woke please stop handing culture war ammunition to ACT now?
Please?
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Thomas Jefferson said that preventing other people from speaking shows you are afraid of what they have to say.
If Trans activists are confident in their beliefs surely they welcome the chance to debate with their opponents?
Mark Twain said it was better to appear foolish than to open your mouth and remove all possible doubt.
If Posie Parker is in fact a toxic transphobe then surely the more she says, and the more publicly she says it, will aid the trans community.
Does anyone remember the debates over MMP and the Nuclear ban that gained support for these issues? This was largely because debate revealed that those opposed could justify their opposition.
I can see that it is difficult for people with penises who do not menstruate or conceive children to argue that they are biological women but that does not mean they should not try.
Lucky we let Hitler speak, how’d that work out?
There were hate speech laws in place when hitler came to power.
How did that work out?
“People who know that sex is real and there are situations where it matters a lot are JUST LIKE HITLER!”
Spinoff’s 6 million – Seymour will also cut that.
Seymour can’t cut the Spin-offs funding soon enough.
Spinoff as in Spinoff into an altered reality
A secondary school level cartoon.
Lazy and simplistic.
Who’s his audience?
And Toby the journalist should know that ‘an amount of non-trans New Zealanders’ is grammatically wrong: NUMBER of New Zealanders please, Toby.
Government Propaganda is just that, the truth is irrelevant.
This is completely unsurprising, there are very very very very very many examples of articles in the MSM that are frank lies, mostly pushing an agenda that weirdly matches the government.
It’s good that the scales have fallen from some eyes over the Posie Parker narrative inversion, but sad and dangerous that we can’t trust the media.
There will be alot of journalists and media pooping their pants if Act get in power.
It’s a stupid piece that talks down to its audience, and badly timed. Best thing for the trans lobby to do is to cool it for a while until all the P Parker stuff dies down. But Spinoff is alike all media – some ill-advised stuff, some hysterical stuff, some worthwhile stuff.
So the Trans feel blamed and scapegoated for neoliberalism, inflation, high mortgage interest rates, job losses, the parliament protest, race relations, climate change – just seems like a very self-important self-view.
The concern parents and the wider population have is the degree of faddist psychological manipulation and genital mutilation of children and teens under the age of 18.
Toby starts wrong by telling us that in OT times the scapegoat was literal while neglecting to mention it was only a shadow of future events (Heb 10:1), the NT tells us to be trans-formed (Rom 12:2) (excuse my miss spelling for emphasis) although this is a very different experience to the trans protests today.
While it is easy to understand people’s rejection of Christianity when most of those who claim to believe show by their actions that they have not been transformed, the early Christian church (before corruption set in) made a significant difference in all their known world (Rom 1:8, Col 1:6) & Rev 18 shows the same experience just before the end of all things. Salvation is free so all are able to participate if they want something better.
Barf worthy propaganda. And not something I want my tax dollars funding.
Not because its trans anything but because it is political, incorrect in its assumptions (the trans debate in NZ currently has nothing to do with ‘punching down’ and everything to do with free speech and maintaining womens rights) and debate stifling.
Stultifyingly stupid virtue signalling whilst doing exactly what it is claiming others are doing to trans people.
Monsterising others. And what a totally boring and ugly cartoon, I wonder how many people fell asleep whist reading it!
Agree Fantail.
Just trying to remember here but I’ve got a feeling that the latest suicide risk figures in NZ are topped by (I think or maybe exponentially growing) by men over 55?
I wonder why??? Clearly not trans women (men identifying as women) as they wouldnt show up in the figures.
Could it be because they are washed up, villified and/or unemployable in this life affirming brave new world. Probably all evil Cis white males who are getting righteously punched ‘up’. Who cares if they top themselves right.
Words absolutely fail me. This is the biggest pile of crap I have ever seen from the Spin-off.
They have really dumbed it down to a reading age of about 9 years old. That’s the level of debate coming from that side.
There use of psychological terms like displacement is so ironic. Here’s a psychological term for you. Denial. That’s what the movement is about and that includes the denial of the bullying and violence against women at Albert Park.
It’s fucking infantile rubbish. Thanks for calling it out Martyn
“Facile , shit” is right
Kellie Jay Keen did the trick, now more women and men know that women are being ripped off in New Zealand by its own govt. As to RNZ they are totally bigoted against women’s rights campaigners and have lost the respect of many women. Note the male journalist critiquing Kellie Jay? The main voices promoting the loss of women rights in NZ are male journalist.
Since Kellie Jay came women have become quieter and quieter. Like the reality dawned on them.. Nothing funny about men winning in women sports, nothing funny about any man self iding..into female change rooms. Women are especially angry about changes to maternity language. Called people instead of women while male language remains unchanged.
No shit heard an ad on the radio this morning which told me it wasn’t any of my business what is in a trannie’s pants – the world just keeps on getting weirder.
I swear, every time I see something like pregnant people used in context I have less problems with it (and I did used to feel uncomfortable with it). I had to read the covid thing twice to notice it. And believe me I’ve got no love for Te Whatu Ora’s wokesterisms.
Thanks for that extensive critique that parts the seven veils over the body politic. Don’t know what I mean exactly but so many allusions must strike home with one of the cult-like confreres. I’m reading Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett which might seem weird but after a while the narrative reminds one of real happenings in the supposed real world.
Reading a book-paper-artifact is good for that poor little part of your brain that processes words and the imaginative flashes that arise. Gets you away from staring at your devices and primped-up tv presenters with rehearsed comments, light careless easy-going laughter, in their coloured world of beautiful people. What about a give a little fund for the advance of ugly people? Do they get accepted by the trans people or do trans just trot over the bridge quickly so they don’t have to confront the trolls
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