The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 21st March 2019
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The High Court awards almost $25,000 of costs to three medical professionals for succeeding in interlocutory applications in their defamation…
What’s going on with media in New Zealand?
Is Facebook out of control?
Can social media be a public service?
If this is how redneck Australians respond to an egg, how will they freak out when they hear about books?
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – The horror of the atrocity in Christchurch
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Stories of Muslim women being yelled at to go back to their countries continue to emerge. Posts online of people yelling at ‘dark-skinned’ individuals cheering at this despicable act of last week surface. And this is just the outward manifestation of the racism in NZ. It has been insidious for years. The term unconscious bias is the nice, polite way to describe the way in which the brain reacts to difference. And in the main, difference is the colour of your skin and gender. That difference is picked up by the eye immediately and it feeds that information directly to the brain. Then judgements are made about who is in, and who is out.
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Mucad’s right to life (and the right to life of all the 49 other innocent victims of Friday’s massacre) vastly supersedes anyone’s “right” to own a semi- automatic weapon.
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