Will Freedom of Speech debate become our ‘deplorables’ moment?
You don’t beat crypto-fascists with trigger free safe spaces and emotional support peacocks.
Martyn Bradbury
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The glee over TOPs demise
Yes, Morgan & Plunkett had all the charm of car accidents involving school children, BUT their policy was courageously light years ahead of most everyone else.
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Since when were we on the Left frightened to fight crypto-fascsists?
Look, I don’t think these alt-right polemicists should gain access to council venues either, just as I wouldn’t want ISIS recruitment seminars in the Town Hall, KKK monthly meet & greets in Council Chambers or Man love Boy Association annual sing alongs at Silo Park, but I still support them appearing if they find a private venue, just as I am prepared to protest their appearing!
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The disconnect between platforming fascists and stopping them recruiting more
Where I would accept the use of Council venues is if it were a debate. If these far right protagonists want to come to NZ to just demand a pulpit to preach from, there’s the door, but if they were prepared to debate their views under debate rules, step on up, let’s have the debate because here’s the real problem for us on the Left and the progressive side of politics, this isn’t going away.
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So technically, NZ is less environmental than Al Qaeda
So technically, NZ is less environmental than Al Qaeda?!? If you add the pointlessness of being carbon neutral by 2050 when the polar caps will be melted by 2030, our generations ‘nuclear moment’, as proclaimed by Jacinda is not exactly, “I can smell the Uranium on your breath from here’ moral certainty and more, “I can smell the garlic down wind from you at an all you can eat garlic festival” undistinguishable passiveness.
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What Farrar misses with his claim the NZ Herald is a socialist rag
Farrar needs to claim the media are left wing all of a sudden to delegitimise wider debate and new voices joining that debate.
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Hooton’s anti-Trump propaganda, climate change armageddon vs economic trade war meltdown and who Grant Robertson should call when shit hits the fan
…Hoots is correct to hold up Trump as a risk to everything, but it’s not the destruction he’ll do to the neoliberal hegemony that’s the issue, it’s that the neoliberal hegemony empowered Trump in the first place.
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Q+A review: Ron Mark – A Hawk’s Hawk
FINALLY someone has pointed out that China is using soft power to extend its power into NZ.
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South Right Whale vs South White Fail
Of course far right polemicists have the right to speak in NZ – what they don’t have a right to is community funded space to speak in – but nothing is solved by banning this toxicity – if the left can’t argue the far right and win, we’ve lost, not them
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Of course Kiwibuild is a middle-class homeownership policy – The NZ Labour Party is a middle class party
The surprise over LottoBuild that allows well paid IT millennials who read the Spinoff to own a little slice of Jacinda’s aspiration shows Phil knows how to manage expectations.