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  1. I am very angry about this. And genuinely terrified. Has it been muted that not using personal pronouns would be a form of hate speech? That is very scary. Just to set the record straight, I don’t mind uses persona,l pronouns for a. Transgender person, if that’s what they want, no problem. But to compel people to, otherwise it’s hate speech?

    There has been a recent ruling on the case of Maya Frater (think I have her surname wrong), in the UK. She posted on her Twitter account that she believed there are only two sexes and sex is immutable. This is a commonly held assumption and a scientific fact (intersex people most often have xx or Xy). In the last week the Supreme Court ruled that gender critical views (and gender identity), are protected categories. I support both findings. Women who are gender critical are being shut down already.

    The latest Green Party cancel cry is shut down the film they are us and labelling white supremacy that the main focus is on Ardern leadership. I am not saying I am in favour of the film going ahead. The film makers claim to have talked to the Muslim community, but it sounds like there is more talk to do. I would have thought it was too soon. But to label the focus on Jacinda as white supremacy is stupid. The benefits of showing a young women leader who handles such an appalling act so well, surely will be that people in their own countries begin to demand her type of leadership. Ardern did something really significant in terms of uniting the country and showing great compassion for the Muslim people and this should be celebrated

  2. The biggest threat by far is Abrupt Climate Change (Planetary Meltdown).

    What are our ‘security’ agencies doing about it?

    What is ANYONE doing about it?

  3. Perhaps before we have a public campaign to enable the creation of another security agency, we could have one to explain exactly what all of our exisiting ones do.

  4. This effectively boils down to criminalising political dissent. The pretense of a vestigial democracy is gone at that point. If you’re not fully down with the liberal consensus, you are to be deemed an enemy of the state, by those who uphold this orthodoxy as being unassailably morally upright, naturally. But they would say that wouldn’t they. Of course it’s always cloaked as “keeping us safe.” It is amazing how far this country has fallen.

  5. Never ceases to amaze me that people you grew up with and knew, either by way of 2 or 3 degrees of separation and who used to advocate social liberalism have turned out to be right little authoritarians. Often in the image of their parents they used to rebel against.
    It’d be amusing to watch if it wasn’t so serious.
    Thankfully, our elections haven’t yet been compromised so that we still get what we deserve. Think before you vote in ’23 or you won’t know what you’ve lost till it’s gone. The frogs are on the stove set to simmer.

    1. Knarf. I think it was Elizabeth Kerekere, Green, not the Maori Party, who said in her maiden speech, that before colonisation, Maori had more gender options or choices or practices, and then came the colonials, and it was likely the colonial missionaries who threw their weight around and reduced the variety or choices or practices involved in having Maori sex, but this too can change – for those who have the time and the energy and inclination to change – and everyone can have rainbow diversity and whatever, without prejudice, discrimination, fear of the Lord, or spies.

      1. Preoccupation with gender/ transgender issues warranting a Parliamentary maiden speech from Kerekere, may be more to do with being a member of the Green Party, than Maori – I don’t recall either Mana, or the Maori Party, prioritising gender or sex issues -I think both have been more environmentally and community focused.

  6. Para 2 and 3
    Right on Bomber

    Beware of the words internal security for that is the eternal cry of the oppressor – said Voltaire

    And, say I, invariably the plea of second grade bureaucrats seeking job security

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