Our request is made as part of the international BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign which was launched in 2005 by Palestinian civil society groups to bring pressure to end Israeli apartheid. Israeli-made products such as Sodastream are one focus of the campaign.
It is time we stood against these fools and their distractions and fought back to reclaim a media that actually challenges and provides insight rather than the vacant infotainment we are served up at 7pm and on the front pages of our newspapers.
We may disagree on politics and culture and economics and philosophy and we may argue our causes passionately and we may be blunt, rude and self righteous in the pursuit of that argument, but who the Christ gets off on making fun of something like this?
Joe Moses: “It is shameful that [the PNG] government continues to limit free speech and put such pressure on our country’s only annual arts and human rights event. How does this make us look to the world leaders who will be coming here for the APEC meeting in November?”
The NZ Herald, The largest daily newspaper in NZ, is too led by their millennial social media staff who are only focused on the latest micro-aggression policing online fat-shaming, victim-blaming, mother shaming, shaming shaming, too woke to joke comedy shaming outrage or white privilege drenched cutting issues like Koru Lounge Carnage and property speculation porn.
The fact that the NZ Herald can spend three fucking days on this inane bullshit right after the global scientists of the planet explained to us that our civilisation will be mutilated beyond ability to adapt if we don’t make urgent changes now is the reason why we deserve to perish.
Rose Matafao appeared on the UK Comedy Roast this week and I’m guessing the woke warriors of NZ Twitter and the trigger free millennials who staff the NZ Herald and Stuff have never seen one before and had no idea that the Comedy Roast is a no holds barred insult competition where sexism, racism and in fact every ism is up for grabs.
The Green Woke are in absolute denial that this is poor media planning and strategy and any attempt to suggest it is gets attacked as heteronormative patriarchal misogyny.
While no one ever likes to agree with Damien Grant, he has a very valid point, this Government wants to parade our liberal values on the global stage while betraying them at home. The truth is that we will only solve synthetic cannabis use when we legalise the real version and on that front the Government is fecklessly rudderless.
this hyper woke micro aggression policing of a misplaced word to insinuate an uncaring attitude towards mental health is just the most inane minutia – y’all appreciate the planet is melting & civilisation as we know it could end right?