Eli and Golriz should be more contrite: Why Flying Dildos are fine but Tomato Juice is not
Oh come on…
Trans right activist fails to have conviction overturned after pouring tomato juice on Posie Parker
A trans rights activist who poured tomato juice over controversial women’s rights activist Posie Parker has failed to have her conviction overturned.
Eli Rubashkyn previously pleaded guilty to assault after she poured tomato juice over Parker – also known as Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull– and another woman at Auckland’s Albert Park in March 2023.
…look. Eli, like Golriz, needs to show some genuine contrition here because while it is totally their legal right to appeal a sentence, their sentences were both fair and attempting to minimise them makes them look worse.
The judges comments regarding Eli are fair, the Court can’t condone any physicality when it comes to counter protest, the Court is actually taking a stand here for free speech while protecting the right to protest.
So what’s the difference between a flying dildo and Tomato juice?
When Josie Butler threw a dildo at Steven Joyce while crying, ‘that’s for raping the Treaty’, Steven wasn’t under immediate threat from a mob altho was about to tear him to pieces.
Butler was arrested but released without charge because Steven could appreciate the situation without feeling threatened. He was also smart enough to know a court case would become a a circus.
In that situation Steven was safe and had the power.
In the case of Posie Parker, she was in the middle of a Trans Rights Mob who wanted to beat the shit out of her. Dumping tomato juice on her in the middle of this was a compounding event and she was finally ripped away from the event while being physically attacked.
In her case, Posie Parker was the victim and was in danger which meant the dousing with Tomato Juice was actually very ver very different from the flying dildo.
In Steven case, he was in control and safe, in Posie Parker’s case she was on the verge of being lynched.
Eli was very triumphant after her activism, trying to weasel out of the conviction like Golriz has when the sentences were very fair brings them no mana.
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Posie should stay at home .We have endured enough colonial bull shit from the UK over the last 200 years telling us how to live .
She was invited to New Zealand, by New Zealand women, to help Kiwi women find their voices. Unless you’re a woman, or you’re planning to be one, it’s not really your business.
The classic lefty shut down.
Nah, both were assaults or both were just legitimate protests.
This post reminds me of christian apologists cherry-picking only the parts they want to out of the bible and ignoring all ridiculous mataerial.
Eli and Golriz may be seen by some as being baddies, proven to be baddies by the mighty justice system, administered by the mighty govt sector, the same govt sector proven in the abuse in care report, to have mightily covered up the torture and abuse of the countries most vulnerable, while those in authority stood by and did nothing, and those with oversight of those in authority stood by and did nothing, and the solicitor general sided with the abusers and against the survivors of abuse, and there would be a myriad of people culpable of the covering up, some of which have died or moved overseas, or retired, but some would still be in the public service now, yet during the whole abuse in care saga, not once having I heard Mr Mitchell address it, even though he’s the Police minister, and the minister for the organization who should have been at the center of investigating all the abuse, but was largely MIA, but there would be current officers who turned a blind eye to these worst of crimes, and Mr Mitchell needs to address it, mainly to show that there will be repercussions to turning a blind eye, that you wont get away with it, but if the cancer of covering up is so endemic, will anything really happen, and before you mention Eli and Golriz again, do the serious stuff of dealing to those in the public sector who have sided with the abusers, and do something concrete, that’s a little more than just another self help phone number for people to call, while we look on aghast at the previous covering up, but do nothing to stop current and future situations occurring, so as well as hate speech offenses and stalking offenses, there needs to be an offense for the covering up of abuse, and this offense needs to be very strongly policed by serious people, not the Jagose’s or HDC’s or Ipca’s, who are very well part of the problem, but people like those in Social Justice Aotearoa, could be a good start.
Throwing a dildo is humour.
Pouring an immediately unknown liquid not so much. What was the point they were making,”only women bleed”?
I think Golriz who was clearly unwell should be forgiven and welcomed back into the fold by the Chloe led Green Party.
Fine but she’s still a person with a criminal record who needs to face the consequences of her own actions as almost all of us do.
Unless you want be President of the US.