Concern plans to enshrine free speech at unis could allow hate speech
Unions and students are warning a plan to amend the Education and Training Act to enshrine a free speech policy at publicly-funded universities could enable hate speech on campuses.
FFS.
I remember screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming at the middle class woke activists when they started their deeply flawed campaign against free speech that they would only serve to give the far right political ammunition and that this woke virtue signal to cancel and strangle off free speech would bite us in the arse.
ACT at the time were polling .7%.
After the insanity of the woke war on free speech, ACT are now 8%.
Well done wokies, we get it, your self constructed image is far more important than the common ground between us.
Free Speech is an issue the Left should be championing, but our new cancel culture deplatforming middle class activists have instead become the new puritans and their insistence that micro aggressions lead to macro violence have made them philosophically impotent.
If a white middle class woman is offended on social media, Western Civilisation has apparently ended.
All the middle class woke activists are managing to do is feed the far right the culture war ammunition the Right then shoot back at us!
The woke activists named in the above article claim free speech is already protected, but it’s not! Gender critical feminists were banned from Wellington University because the woke screamed ‘transphobic’, David Seymour ended up having to host the Gender Critical Feminists at Parliament FFS.
The play by the right will be to push for controversial speakers to go onto Campus and try to give talks which of course the Woke will try and shut down, thus gifting the Right another ‘pure trans joy’ propaganda victory.
It is hilarious to me that the Free Speech Union, which is nothing more than a right wing Zionist front group led by a white South African lecturing the rest of us on Free Speech, should have been allowed to become such an enormous movement for the Right.
We on the Left should champion free speech, yet we are not because the woke have zero interest in philosophically and intellectually defending the corner stone rights of all individuals because they only want to focus on alienating intersectionist roulette where only the biggest power victim is allowed to speak.
The Right will breath life into this issue by inviting controversial speakers to campus and the woke protestors will do the rest and hand the Right another ‘pure trans joy’ propaganda win.
The manner in which middle class woke cancel culture activism has driven voters into the arms of the Right is an enormous issue the Left are going to have to confront at some stage.
Imagine if MeToo hadn’t mutated into a Salem witch trial where the new evidential threshold becomes ‘whatever a woman says on Twitter’.
Imagine if BLM acknowledged that far more white people were shot by Police than black people and instead of rioting had progressed their argument with solidarity?
Imagine if the Trans community had not been so radioactively militant?
Imagine if the woke hadn’t started cancel culture deplatforming?
Imagine if the entire Identity Politics movement had sought to build class solidarity rather than alienating bullshit?
Since 2016s #MeToo moment, a coalition of 5th wave feminists, non gender binary activists, Critical Race Theorists and Critical Gender Theorists have manufactured a faith based woke dogma, the holy trinity of which is:
1 – All white people are irredeemable cross burning racists.
2 – All men are rapists.
3 – Everyone defending free speech is a uniform wearing Nazi who hates the Trans Community.
Woven into this woke Identity Politics Holy Trinity, is the ‘BELIEVE ALL WOMEN’ mantra, because intersectionism decrees all men are part of a power dynamic which means they can never be victims and because women are morally superior to toxic masculinity males, they would NEVER lie about that abuse.
I have many self declaring feminist women who privately tell me they have real misgivings with some of the Trans woke dogma but are terrified of saying anything because the Fourth Wave Feminists, non-binary activists and trans ally vegan mommy bloggers rip them to pieces on social media. Part of the problem is that the Trans activists themselves have helped make this debate so radioactively toxic with their cancel culture dynamics.
This entire issue of Identity over Class has caused immense damage on the Left and rather than debating the material well being of citizens, we are lost in middle class identity politics virtue signalling that censors rather than answers and in that cultural space, anger grifters like Posie Parker flourish.
The Wellington Woke Left and their Auckland enablers at The Spinoff have become accustomed to Outrage Olympics in social media and deplatforming views that overstep their micro aggression triggers that they have forgotten how to win over people. It’s easier for the Woke to block and censor than engage and debate.
Meanwhile the planet is melting!
Can the Left move from Pure Temple politics towards Broadchurch Class Solidarity?
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Currently the heads of three American universities are having to quit their jobs because of freedom of speech issues, addressed by a congressional inquiry which is available for public viewing. Onnce illustrious Harvard University now ranks as the worst American academic institution for freedom of speech.
Seeing these women defending the same issues being played out here concerning Hamas, with seemingly-agreed upon defences, and apparently with teams of lawyers to coach them, lifts the level of debate to a level beyond the ability and intellectual capacity of inane New Zealand Green Party politicians inappropriately wearing Keffiyehs in Parliament and believing themselves to be other than posturing adolescents blithely unaware not just of the complexities of history, but the horrific contemporary tragedy and its global dynamics.
Academic freedom has been booted out of our universities, and obviously to their and their students’ detriment, and it’s messier here with it being unrealistically tied to “ principles” of the Treaty just the way that media funding is. Hopefully the tide turning in the USA will reach these shores.
Their woke ideology has already cost Harvard $1 billion! Long may this continue.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12852405/Harvard-donor-lost-antisemitism-Palestine-Israel-protests.html
Isn’t that where Jacinda Ardern works/attends?
I agree with your thoughts but also wonder if Christianity gets a bad rap because many of the so-called Christians do not reflect what their claimed example called them to be. I can appreciate that the God that Martyn often describes is the one that many Christians appear to worship however that is not even remotely close to the God I believe in.
You are correct in calling for unity among the left although you only need to read John 17 to see that unity is an old idea, your writing style even follows the pattern of the book of Revelation in that it often uses parts of previous articles as Revelation contains about 30% from other parts of scripture.
I guess this is a bit off-topic but like you I see the problems in society & believe that what could be a major part of the answer is unfairly represented currently. Free choice is absolutely vital & it obviously involves a free exchange of information (I do think society is allowed to have rules around extreme subjects though, not my opinions but society) so lets see what others think.
Bonnie. “ Free choice is absolutely vital & it obviously involves a free exchange of information,” 100%.
Once freedom of speech, or of expression is controlled, freedom of thought processes is controlled. This is inimical to both democracy and a liberal society. It’s still incredible to me, that a Human Rights Commissioner, Paul Hunt, staffer from Waikato University, seemingly objected to Kelly-Jay Keen, aka Posy Parker, trying to enable our Kiwi women to have voices and played a role in silencing her, as did media hacks, and serving Labour and Green politicians.
Those shocking scenes of terrorism and violence at Albert Park were not just anti-women, but prioritised the non scientific transgender ideology which is now part of the school curriculum, and potentially criminalises concerned parents as well as confusing and damaging innocent children. There is and was no good reason for shutting women up in the same way that politicians tried to do hiding in the Beehive and refusing to engage with the Parliamentary protestors and “exchange information,” and instead succeeded in escalating the situation to dangerous levels.
Why you would want to ban arseholes from talking is beyond me. Let them talk then give them both barrels ( verbally only of course) straight back at them. Most of the meatheads people are worried about don’t have any real arguments of substance. They are just morons that need to be exposed.
I would say though Martyn some of the suppression of opinion previously was not about woke it was about money. As in don’t trigger the Chinese with criticism. Don’t upset the fee paying students or the Chinese administration.
I agree. I want people to be out in the open so I can hear their views rather then them festering in the background. And the moral outrage from some of these groups would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. When you ban people and suppress their comments you get Winston as deputy PM
There are people on this blog who make me roll my eyes but they have as much right to express their opinion as I do (even if obviously they’re wrong and I’m right)
There’s some truth in what you’re saying. But the BIG issues that terrify most academics and university managers are the revisionist treaty, maatauranga, ethnicity and gender identity.
P.S. I work at a NZ tertiary institution.
Frightened academics crowd under desks as Pasifikan issues demand recognition.
Recognition for/as what?
As issues that need addressing.
Cowering under a desk isn’t going to achieve much.
What issues are you talking about?
“revisionist treaty, maatauranga, ethnicity and gender identity”
Good fuckn job!
Time for them to all take an OE. Starting in Ukraine or Gaza even! Spread some of that Authoritarianism across the globe! See how that goes. It might even take off somewhere and they could all hold hands and sing Kumbayah together! Or they might get killed on the Russian Front. Bugga.
The perfect song for the ‘hypocrites are us’ professional managerial class who claim to care sooo much (about any issue that doesn’t threaten to actually change anything in a system in which they are pampered and privileged): ‘Holiday in Cambodia’ https://youtu.be/7sF8rkSPDH8?si=bRa-ICvmSllzKKQ2
Different time, same PMC bullshit. This song captures this hypocrisy beautifully. Note – The Americans were at that time involved in a horrific war in Cambodia (back in the days when they sent their own people to be slaughtered)
Snippet:
You’re a star-belly sneech, you suck like a leech
You want everyone to act like you…………..
………..What you need, my son
What you need, my son
[Chorus]
Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you’ll kiss ass or crack
What you need, my son
What you need, my son
[Chorus]
Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you’ll kiss ass or crack
No surprise to see TEU president Sandra Grey is among those who aren’t keen on protecting of free speech on campus. Her utterance confirms I made the right decision to quit the uberwoke TEU last month.
The left have caused huge damage to our society,damage the coalition has set about to correct.
Bob your coalition mates are going to do more damage to this country than the last lot by a mile. Winston is a complete embarrassment. How on earth you could say he is doing anything positive, with one exception, is beyond me. The only good he did was scupper that idiot foreign buyer tax proposal and that’s blocking his coalition partner not undoing something the last lot did. How the in the hell is the cigarette u turn positive? The only positive thing National has done is block a treaty referendum , again blocking their idiot coalition partner.
Wheel the don’t fret the coalition of the competent will save you from yourself.
Yes, Bob you knob and so getting rid of fair pay is being fixed by your master’s as is having fair work conditions. Is this the new governments policy for helping NZers with the cost of living, drop their wages and increase work insecurity? nice what bunch of cunts?
You clearly don’t understand and you can’t help that.
Your use of foul language further reduces your credibility.
Left right, left right…the sound of jack booted colonial apologists trampling on indigenous rights left out in the cold.
…but it’s all white people and boomers voting for NACT… migrants of colour… they don’t vote now. LMAO
I know “migrants of colour” who voted National or ACT this year.
Every voter has a tipping point before they decide to vote for the other side and for several women I know this issue was trans rights vs bathrooms/sport/school indoctrination. Sorry wokies but concern for ones biological offspring trump trans rights any day of the week.
So over your overuse of the word WOKE!
Hear hear.
If the shoe fits… You should become tired of the thing, not the word used to describe it.
+ 1 Jake.
Not to mention it tends to mean “somebody’s done something I don’t like.”
The right has weaponised the word. Using it in this fashion simply gives aid and comfort to the enemy.
they are not the left – they are conservative cucks. this whole woke ideology is based in conservatism.
“the woke have zero interest in philosophically”
Woke is a post-Marxist construct – it sidestepped philosophy because it could not win arguments by whining.
Philosophy is important because it used to teach people how to get people that don’t necessarily like or agree with you to understand your position – all about using objective arguments, real data, and shared moral perspectives. All conspicuously absent among the parasitic class that presently infests the rotting carcass of the Left.
They need to go back to school – and not to hit on impressionable adolescents.
Woke is an enlightened state of being pertaining to civil rights.
It ought to be – but the self-righteous wankers claiming the title are a few steps short of sati.