The mere idea that Maori somehow have a special privilege is just a white myth! Look at the incarceration rates, look at the crime rates, look at the life expectancy rates, look at the socio-economic rates, look at the education rates, health rates, inequality rates, poverty rates – in EVERY SINGLE NEGATIVE SOCIAL INDICATOR, Maori are suffering.
‘Doing a Luigi Wewege’ – is a term used to describe a tactic by right wing activists who sleep with a woman to gain politically damaging information to smear and attack a person in public.
This is an extraordinary case because of what is at stake. The narrative that the Jury believed is that Jordan Williams was a white knight riding to the rescue of a damsel in distress.
Cameron Slater and Jordan Williams win again.
I wouldn’t normally pay these types of social media smears any attention at all, but defaming me and attacking this blog’s ability to continue is something I will fight tooth and nail against.
Many Maori and Pacific Island community organisations already complain about the lack of research the current CYFs go to when trying to find appropriate whanau, how much more lax will it become if cost cutting private contractors are focused on the placement over other considerations?
Kyle Chapman’s brand of racism never really caught on much in NZ. Not because NZ isn’t racist, it’s just because Kyle’s National Front Movement required so much energy.
Dressing up as neo-Nazi’s and saluting swastika’s is too much effort for NZ’s ultra laid back culture
For the entirety of the campaign, Hillary has delighted in highlighting the grossly offensive racist and sexist trash that has given him his Nascar Dad cred. The phenomenal number of viewers tuning in were expecting a fanged monster who spits acid between devouring babies.
As older generations struggle to deal with the untarnished manner in which younger generations can use social media to tell them how much they hate them, larger fracture lines are starting to emerge between Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials.
There have been remarkable juxtapositions last week in NZ that seem to show the two worlds we have split into, one where the reality of life is grim and one where privilege blinds us to that grim reality.