Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
It wasn’t a gang who shot & killed 100 Muslims – it was a white supremacist – demanding Police gain the power to storm brown people’s homes to seize guns as a response to that terrorism is ethically bankrupt.
Catching Seymour out was as much a redemption for Chippie as it was a repudiation to Seymour’s media preening.
This legislation is to appease alpha personalities who can not tolerate the idea of needing help in the painful end of their lives, but it will be used against the poorest and most vulnerable who are already so easily abused by the State.
In the wake of this atrocity we have solidarity and a genuine desire to change, regulating social media would be a huge step forward together on that, using an ideological framework over what can and can’t be said by the individual would be a giant leap backwards.
Isn’t it incredible how left wing journalists, activists, Māori, environmentalists, Greenpeace, the Green Party, earthquake survivors and left wing bloggers all have to accept erosions of civil liberties in NZ, except for white supremacists who apparently can plot atrocities for years and the State doesn’t seem to want to annoy them.
NZ First will not be able to blow any of their dog whistles any longer and will be reliant on Shane Jones winning Northland to remain in Parliament as they currently tread water sub 5%.
Normally events can be eclipsed, or glossed over or forgotten, but this atrocity is unique to us in modern political history and it has stamped something deep into our national psyche and many are privately thankful Jacinda was here to lead us through what has been a test for who we think we are and who we want to be so I think the ramifications of this event will be felt deep into the 2020 election.
The beauty, strength, compassion, grace and dignity Jacinda & the vast, vast majority of New Zealanders have shown in the face of this horrific atrocity has made me prouder to be a Kiwi than any other single time in my life.
If climate change as an existential threat to our species refuses to motivate Governments into action, maybe losing money might? The latest research from the Fed spells out how climate change could spark the next financial meltdown…
The atrocity in Christchurch will have enormous societal and political reverberations, it has reset the cultural landscape in an enormous way and trying to ascertain how something of this magnitude impacts everything will be a bunch of haphazard guesses.
So here are my haphazard guesses.