The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 20th March 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Author: The Daily Blog
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This is not us
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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Malcolm Evans – shoes
Malcolm Evans – shoes
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 19th March 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Malcolm Evans – never the twain shall meet
Malcolm Evans – never the twain shall meet
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Mucad Ibrahim was just 3 years old when he reportedly died in his father’s arms during last Friday’s massacre.
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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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 18th March 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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How to combat Islamophobia and white supremacy
Whether consciously or not, successive New Zealand governments have helped foster this modern Islamophobia by participating in the American-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and not speaking out against Western military action in places like the Yemen, Libya and Somalia. The Western propaganda around those wars has fostered prejudice towards Muslims living in New Zealand.
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GUEST BLOG: Suzie Dawson – Misguided Spying and the New Zealand Massacre
Now that the bodies of 50 innocent human beings are lying in a Christchurch, New Zealand, morgue — gunned down by a heavily armed terrorist — New Zealand media are asking the obvious questions: why didn’t our intelligence agencies know there were xenophobic, murderous, white supremacists on the loose in Christchurch?
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Passing the buck
As a result of this city’s history of radicalized right-wing groups, failure of police and GCSB to have entrenched and effective spying apparatus in that sector, is in my view one good reason why we need a review of what I say, has been a lamentable performance by any measure of national security providers.