Labour have ended up being champions of Free Speech while the Political Right pearl clutch
Labour defends raising column as C-word debate spirals
The Free Speech Right have become hypocrites and easily triggered snowflakes who have wallowed in self pity and become easily offended Karens pearl clutching at the C word.
While Chippy has apologised for causing a distraction by Jan Tinetti asking a question about the Andrea Vance column, he has hilariously come out as a bigger champion of free speech than the offended Right…
The coalition has criticised Labour for not calling out the column itself, with Finance Minister Nicola Willis taking aim at Labour leader Chris Hipkins directly for his past position of believing men should speak out against gendered abuse.
Hipkins said newspapers make editorial judgments about what they are and aren’t willing to publish, “and that’s a question for the editors and the people writing that material.”
…exactly!
Chippy defend a journalists right to write and speak truth to power, for all the grief the Left get as anti-free speech, when the rubber meets the road, Labour stood for free speech far more vigorously than the pearl clutching Right!
Where’s the Free Speech Union?
Long story short, if you don’t want to be called the c word, don’t be a c word.
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Andrea Vance defended herself well in this weeks Sunday Star–she said she was “sorry”–sorry that media and politicians focused on her statement rather than the “terrible injustice” being done to care workers, nurses, teachers and other underpaid women. She pointed out that she used the C word in the sense of those prepared to be a C***, she never said anyone was or is a C*** and neither did Labour. Free Speech for Act except when they do not like what is being said!
Brooke Van Velden will likely wear “cunt” in some form or another for the rest of her political career.
As Martyn alludes to, if you don’t want to called a c*** don’t look, act and talk like one.
Brooke would do well setting up her own high end fashion label “Cunt” based on her loathsome and heinous dress sense.
If her own label offends her, she could always call it Cnut or some equally clever variation of cunt in disguise.
Robertson and his University of the North Antarctic turn out to be the real free speech warriors.
What medieval English people could have realised that a word in common usage would have such effect in the 21st century?
They did not have tea so it would have been a tempest in an ale jug.
Are we ever going to get back to the real topic of inequality of income for women? Of shall we get sidetracked into another quarrel about biological women versus transfemales?
Oh, look over there. Don’t look at what we’re doing here. We’d rather you didn’t know.
Bring back Jacinda she actually cared about every KIWI not jus the 1% and would not have allowed this bill to have been rushed through for no other reason than covering the fact that Willis cant count past 3 billion .
I really don’t think any of us need a re run of the podium of truth and the damage it caused.
now we have the podium of lies
No damage, just lives saved.
Now carry on drinking that Kool aid bertie.
Oh, look over there. Don’t look at what we’re doing here. We’d rather you didn’t know.