A week of Tim
A week of Tim
Most Recent Blogs
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The irony of identity politics, David Cormack’s civility and the paradox of Karl Popper’s tolerance
Those who would weaponise difference and seed resentment require brutality, civility is a guard against that. I’m not saying turn the other cheek when a Nazi strikes you, confusing civility with refusing self-defence isn’t a solution, but by strangling off freedom of speech, we only add to their cause, we don’t counter it.
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The Liberal Agenda – Free family fun to close out Matariki
WHAT: Matariki celebration
WHEN: 5.30pm, Saturday 21st
WHERE: Silo Park
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Trump & Putin – the new Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Putin just can not believe his luck can he? Look at the glee in his eyes as he meets this orange carnival of ignorance. I never thought I’d see the day when the President of the United States of America sided with the Russians?!?
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An Inconvenient Truth About Free Speech Denialism
Nothing could be more helpful to the cause of the Right than a Left which has lost its faith in the people. What, after all, is more likely to cause the people to lose faith in the Left than a nagging suspicion that their self-appointed liberators regard them as being either too vicious or too stupid to grasp the arguments in favour of individual freedom and social justice without instruction from above?
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Free speech for racist or religious hatred?
In this environment progressive New Zealanders must fight for free speech in every arena possible but this does not include defending “rights” of anyone to promote racist or religious hatred which smooths the path to fascism.
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Political Caption Competition
The scum of the earth I believe?
The bloody assassin of the workers I presume?
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Free Speech Coalition on details of legal action
The Free Speech Coalition can confirm it will this week be filing judicial review proceedings against Auckland Council for its…
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ANZASW statement on Nurses strike
The Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) wishes to once again express its solidarity with nurses who have…
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Kmart steps in where The Warehouse fails – First Union
FIRST Union is pleased to announce retailer Kmart has stepped in where The Warehouse has failed, it has promised priority…