Police claims of no risk to the Public ring hollow
I think what the NZ Police meant to say was…
New Zealand Politics
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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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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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How should new Government deal with wave of industrial actions?
Ineffective Union Leadership + self-saucing member militancy on social media = bad times for Jacinda.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Custodial alternatives to prison for women
There is a mountain of good research evidence that placing women in prison causes undue harm to their families and children. Most children end up living with extended family (few are looked after by the father), often grandparents. The children are often traumatised. There is little therapy, counselling or other support for the children. They are vulnerable to poor health outcomes and poor education outcomes.
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Never mind the wagging tail, the system’s a dog
This week a range of environmental group representatives, fishing company agents, scientists, consultants and international experts gathered in Wellington to review the threats facing Maui and Hector’s dolphins. The meeting was organised by DoC and Fisheries NZ and participants had to agree to Terms of Reference which included a clause saying they wouldn’t talk to the media about the proceedings.
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Did NZ just get trolled by the alt-right?
Since when were we on the Left such intellectual cowards? We, and the progressive liberal democracy we call home, deserve better champions for our values than punch Nazis in the face cheerleaders who celebrate restricting freedom of speech.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – How Marxists fight Fascism in Aotearoa
Today, capitalism is dying and is thrashing about destroying everything it touches. It deserves to die, but not to take us with it. Fascism is the political response of last resort against the overthrow of capitalism by the working class. It will not give up its fight peacefully, logically, rationally, resorting to undemocratic and illegal actions, wars and genocide.
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Free Speech Denialism Is Fascism In Action
IT HAS BEEN DISPIRITING, this past week, to learn how little people who consider themselves leftists know about fascism.