WHAT IS SHANE JONES trying to do? In speaking so insultingly about the Indian student community he must have known he’d attract the ire of the people he calls “Ngati Woke”. Was he being provocative just for the hell of it, or did he have a more coherent political motive for courting accusations of racism and xenophobia?
The reality is the threat of this pandemic will only abate once we have a vaccination, and that’s 18months away – things are going to get a lot, lot, lot worse public health wise and economically before they can get better.
Very powerful and raw debates in the second reading of the Abortion Bill last night in Parliament.
Let’s be clear, no matter how the woke desperately attempt to frame it, this isn’t a racism issue, it’s a public health danger and economic threat!
The inconvenient truth for National of course is that the current Gang war tensions and eruption of gang violence started blooming when National won in 2008 and were exacerbated by the Australian decision to export their criminal class back to NZ from 2014.
The government has announced a series of changes that will only intensify the crisis around migrant worker exploitation.
Māori don’t need to know the justice system is racist, they live that reality and have lived that reality since the mounted constabulary was established in New Zealand.
Harvard Epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch, who is also director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, is now predicting that 40 – 70% of the population will get the coronavirus over the next few months and years.
It seems like Jones’ outrage about supposedly suspect immigration is seriously selective. If it’s “Indian”, he’s against it. If it’s “Chinese”, he seems rather more circumspect (as in “silent”);
It’s funny watching a free speech champion threaten his youth arm from alienating his conservative Epsom vote.