Waatea News Column: ‘How Santa Parades became a flash point for racism’
I’ve always felt, as a Pakeha, that just below the surface of the civility of New Zealand culture, there bubbles something pretty bitter in the soul of many white Kiwis.
Martyn Bradbury
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National’s disgusting and despicable fear mongering over medicinal cannabis
The only thing worse than the Greens celebrating this pathetic nothing is National trying to manufacture monsters that simply don’t exist.
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TWITTER WATCH: Politicising a death
Everyone seems to want to twist the tragic death of this young visitor to our shores into their own ideological frame work.
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Brothers – the Vigils are anti-male violence, not anti-male and the empathy of a Prime Minister
Jacinda’s apology captured all that guilt and shame and articulated it in a way that was raw and human, we are blessed to have her.
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Simon Bridges word cloud vs Jacinda’s word cloud
…poor old Simon, he can’t stop leaks in his party and he can’t catch a break from the Polls.
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I was wrong about Judith Collins – what the latest leak really says about the factions inside National
TDB understands there are 3 factions inside National, Faction Simon Bridges, Faction Judith Collins and a third faction. It is this third faction who are leaking in an attempt to destabilise Bridges to take power for themselves.
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Pride Parade decision huge win for Pure Temple Exclusion over Broad Church Inclusion
As someone who has gone to almost every Hero and pride parade and has loved taking my Daughter to show her what inclusion looks like, I fear 2019 might be a lot less friendly and far more aggressive so I think I’ll sit this one out until the Rainbow Community has sorted it out.
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TWITTER WATCH: NZ Twitteratti woke mob silence journalist
…the irony is that if anyone approached the employers of the Wellington Twitteratti and complained about their online bullying they would scream all day about being doxed.
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National manipulate personal circumstances for political gain? No Way!
Surely a political Party who hid harassment claims and then weaponised them against one of their own and then had a hand in having that person sectioned under the mental health act would have such rigorous ethical standards that they would never manipulate personal circumstances for political gain.
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Really, really, really, really, really watered down Workplace relations law passed – NZ doesn’t implode into socialist apocalypse
The Workplace relations law was always a watered down meaningless bit of nothing that simply took the Union movement back 10 years to before National had stripped them bare. There isn’t anything modern or empowering about this legislation, it is a whitewash lip service to the union moment to look like something has been done when really very little has changed.