Culture War Round 2 – Sean Plunket Banned for life from Twitter
Broadcaster Sean Plunket suspended from Twitter
Broadcaster and founder of online news site The Platform Sean Plunket has had his Twitter account suspended.
A post on The Platform Twitter account on Monday afternoon said Plunket had been “permanently suspended”, with Plunket describing the move as “Another victory for free speech” on his own Facebook page
Screenshots circulating online show the suspension is apparently due to his breaking privacy rules as well as the “hateful conduct rule”.
Plunket said he had no idea why he had been suspended. “I know as much as anyone,” he told Stuff.
I was banned for life from Radio NZ back in 2011 when I apparently defamed John Key on air, Sean has just been banned for life from Twitter after the Culture Wars rumble into Round 2.
Being banned for life has a certain ring of authority about it when claiming heretic status.
Hot on the heels of Marama Davidson bewilderingly declaring war on white cis males, the woke lynch mob takes their mob rule from the physical Town Square to the online Town Square.
Sean has interviewed Posie Parker several times and the Platform’s footage from the day painted a very different picture from the ‘Pure Tran Joy’ that was promoted.
While RNZ desperately attempts to pretend this wasn’t violent at all…
…RNZ, Mediawatch et all will tell you the images you see with your own eyes above were not a mob violently attacking Posie Parker.
The greatest enemy of the woke are heretics, people who challenge or question their dogma.
Sean was targeted by a co-ordinated group of activists who collectively ensured mass complaints flooded his account to the point of life ban.
This is part of the tactics now.
The woke have become so dependent on cancel culture and deplatforming that they have lost the capacity to persuade or debate.
It’s preferable to cancel Sean and symbolically claim his scalp for the culture wars.
And thus we enter the woke purge phase of our escalating culture war, the night of the long tweets if you will.
The woke will target anyone they think threatens their narrative and seek to cancel them in the lead up to the election.
This election is going to get dirty and ugly. In previous elections, the dirty politics was handled by professionals and sub contracted out away from the Party or Interest.
That meant there were rules amongst professional political mercenaries.
What we are seeing now is the emergence of online militia, partisan to Identity Politics. I suspect things are about to get awful and ugly very quickly.
That tends to be the case when politics get sectarian.
Each spin of the wheel now evokes a wilder outcome, another provocation, another needless martyrdom, a cacophony of wounds fighting for social hierarchy.
Meanwhile the planet melts and we stand upon the precipice of biosphere collapse and Ominicide.
Indeed the planet staggers after plague towards famine…
‘Hell on Earth’ without billions more toward poverty – UN food chief
Without billions of dollars more to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see mass migration, destabilised countries, and starving children and adults in the next 12 to 18 months, the head of the Nobel prize-winning UN World Food Program warned today.
…all on a planet that now beyond tipping points of inescapable gravity.
But sure, ban Sean from Twitter and believe that means something.
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That video is fucking hilarious, Posie & co are such a bunch of dumb fucks, all juiced up & ready to roll. Who could possibly think that evac plan was even remotely a good idea. Idiots.
That shouldn’t have needed an evacuation plan. The angry tras showed themselves for exactly what they are….angry, aggressive authoritarians. The general public sees this now
You always have an evac plan, always! At home, in bed, at work, at the pub, in your car, anywhere. If you haven’t planned for it before you need it, you’re mostly screwed when shit goes down. Fire, earthquake, flood, landslide, home invasion, riot, gas leak, explosion or Tarrant with his AR, if you don’t know how to get out safely, there’s a good chance you won’t. And if you knowingly walking into the middle of a hostile crowd with the express purpose of riling up that crowd, you better know beforehand, how you’ll get away safely, otherwise…
You always need an evac plan, it’s how you escape a fire, flood, Tarrant or the lynch mob you stupidly walked into the middle of.
If shes the dumb one how come she exposed pure trans joy for what it really is to millions around the world- violent, authoritarian cancellation identity politics?
Shes been doing this for years at considerable personal risk.
In New Zealands case made far worse by the culpable New Zealand Police.
Jack. I did expect Andrew Coster to apologise to the women of New Zealand for our public shaming and walloping in Auckland. He didn’t. I also expected Trevor Mallard to resign in shame after his costly Parliamentary protest debacle. He didn’t. In my book, real men would have done both these things.
As an interesting aside, a documentary of the Met Opera’s production of ‘Othello’ interviewed Placido Domingo singing the title role. Domingo described his horror at the whole idea of any man striking a woman. He said it disturbed him so much that it put him off balance, and in rehearsal he accidentally knocked over Desdemona’s understudy. I think that she suffered a broken arm; he was as shocked as she. Now that’s a man.
At Albert Park the violence inflicted on women was deliberate, not accidental. The silence about it is echoing around the world. Shame on the equally ineffectual Minister and Commissioner of Police. Politicians bleating that this didn’t really happen are provable liars. The local media denying reality and spreading official lies are providing the death pangs of the Fourth Estate.
Sean Plunket is another cancel culture blip. The multitude are decent people, and only fools such as politicians and their sycophants under-estimate us. Voting the politicians out still doesn’t address the underlying circumstances which project these odious dishonest persons into powerful positions, unfortunately. Kia kaha.
Crossing the Right presents real danger to your health & well-being, crossing the Left rarely does (unless you’re allergic to tomato juice or susceptible to hurt feelings), and only the truly brave (or foolish) draw cartoons of Mohammad.
Not sure if there are any billions left for poor hungry folk.
We needed billions to prop up capitalism during covid, then capitalism grabbed billions in excessive profits after (irony I know) covid and now we need billions more for the latest European tribal conflict.
So sorry to the starving but theiney was “needed” elsewhere.
Thank-you for the honest commentary Martyn, the NZ media gaslighting makes me question my sanity sometimes. We are in the grip of a social contagion the likes of which I’ve never seen since the Springbok Tour of 81
You make a good point Martyn – my expectation is that this whole thing will blow up in the face of the perpetrators in the near future. Like the way Robespierre, the chief revolutionary instigator eventually had to face the guillotine himself. It’s always the same with revolutions.
As for being banned from various platforms – pin it to your chest as a badge of honour. 🙂
What I find fascinating is the synchronized lying: The way a long list of old media platforms employ exactly the same description to demonize their target. Like Posey Parker is an “anti-trans rights activist” according to TV1 TV3 RNZ and the rest along with a dog whistle reference to her being a fascist, somehow. There’s a long list of similar smears in recent years covering a range of topics.
Who is calling the shots?
Please think more carefully before you write silly right-wing tropes, Andrew.
Very few revolutions have eaten their instigators. The American revolution against Britain is a prime example.
How many revolutions can you name to support your Robespierre theory?
(You need a large number of examples, because there have been many revolutions. and the one that put Castro in power won’t help your thesis, will it?)
And you said ‘always’. I say ‘bollocks’.
Life goes on. Twatter’s for twats.
Imagine the power of this mad woke lynch mob if hate speech laws get enacted after the election.
We have been warned.
Trolls can get anybody banned anywhere. Some of them are paid to do it, some are deranged.
He’s now thrown the woke grenade in the pm’s press conference , be interesting if they let him stay in those too
Great goldfish impression from Hipkins too : https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/prime-minister-of-nz-asked-what-is-a-woman
Thanks for the article Martyn.
As usual the woke media only refrain from shooting themselves in the foot long enough to score an own goal.
How many people even knew who Parker was a few weeks ago. The conclaves attaint of her has been more Streisand effect than banishment. Far more people are acquainted with her and what she is saying now. Anecdotally her popularity has rocketed which she is taking full advantage.
The Streisand effect is compounded by a media narrative of “nazi vs trans love and joy” which assumes kiwis or their friends lack the ability or inclination to do a google search.
If you engage with Parker’s arguments you may agree or disagree. What you won’t find is Mein Kampf volume 2, Nazi’s being great proponents of women’s rights (sarcasm). You also won’t find much love at Albert Park or since. Schadenfreude is the only joy.
In the meantime Kiwi bank have venerated and elevated a mob leader who’s twitter proclamations include the angry, judgemental and self righteous, with an impressive amount of swear words. If one was really on guard for political extremism say Nazism (or Maoism, one would keep an eye on the angry, judgemental, self righteous, absolutist types enamoured with grievance politics. Instead we hold them up as the highest in the land. Most of the trans people I know (and countless young people across NZ) are more deserving of this award than that wanker.
So what is the average punter to think? Whether they support Parker or not they will likely conclude that the media completely made up the Nazi label and Trans activists (distinct from trans people) are scary bullies.
Slow clap for NZ media and institutional integrity with added face palm for trans activist public relations.
“Our escalating culture war… the night of the long tweets if you will.”
This is inspired, Martyn! Thanks. Still laughing.
Graham thank you for your articles. I consider you one of our finest journos
Last I heard Elon Musk’s transgendered/gender-dysphoric child had cut ties with him.. I imagine this would be a deep sadness for most decent parents.
Reading between the lines, Elon wasn’t onboard with Xavier’s, now known as Vivian’s decisions and plans. As such I imagine Twitter’s moderation policies concerning ‘gendered debates’ wouldn’t be too harsh???
I don’t have a Twitter account so I don’t know the inside vibe of the dumpster fire. What I do know is this story feels incomplete, leading me to question if there is more to this than meets the eye.
Twitter is clearly a useful tool for journalism so it’ll definitely be a loss for Sean Plunket it that regard.
Question: Is he actually permanently banned OR is it really a case of walk-away and come back in May?
I think May,
Could be due to police policy analysts opinion that it’s not the police’s job to protect people like this, like women wanting voices in public places, as opposed to eg attending football matches and pop concerts. This gets Christopher Coster off the hook, as well as the disgraceful Auckland police officers who watched while women were bullied and intimidated by the counter protestors celebrating kindness and tolerance.
Hasn’t it now been revealed that a complaint was made after Plunkett encouraged people to read the manifesto of that f’wit Australian who gunned 51 people down in Christchurch?
Who cares about Twitter? I guess millions may obviously, so for some this bastard getting excommunicated may have some import. Mr Plunket is another wasted talent from Radio NZ who took the path of right opportunism like so many others–Mi Cockskin & Maggie Barry for example.
Pope Punc thank you for the link….(it is such an important question to ask right now).
The response to the question was interesting.
Hi Martyn thank you for your voice. I don’t necessarily agree with your and Sean Plunket’s opinions. But i find myself seeking them out, as the msm stick to their unchallengable world view.
So it must be possible to get Marama barred from Twitter for life as well?
Daniel. No. Think it was on Twitter that she suggested white men delete themselves, or she could have meant all men; whatever, wherever, it was ok in Aotearoa New Zealand – it’s not like she’s a real party political leader or anything much – could have been hit by a motorbike.
Daniel. No. Cos objections to Marama’s racism are due to “white fragility,” allegedly.
So far we have these voting blocs deserting Labour and the Greens-
Old school feminists.
Lesbians.
Gay men.
White cis males and after the Prime ministers embarrassing performance now being mocked online, globaly, actual women.
Thats pretty much everybody.
Labour and the Greens are toast.
The pendulum is on its way back.
Jack With respect, you forgot to mention the heterosexual women like me who are not feminists, who are not joiners, who are mothers, grandmothers, daughters and sisters, and the various males in our whanau who will support adult human females and especially young girls, against Parliamentary supported gender ideology battering our rights, our minds, or our bodies.