Will Freedom of Speech debate become our ‘deplorables’ moment?
You don’t beat crypto-fascists with trigger free safe spaces and emotional support peacocks.
New Zealand Politics
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The glee over TOPs demise
Yes, Morgan & Plunkett had all the charm of car accidents involving school children, BUT their policy was courageously light years ahead of most everyone else.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Babies
For most women, having babies causes huge struggles – to cope financially with only paid parental leave for a period, to have partners often having to work longer hours to make ends meet, to face losing seniority when returning to the workforce, or losing out on promotions etc. There is still a tension between babies and workplaces in New Zealand. These do not abate as the babies grow older – they get worse.
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Policy changes to a festering sore are sadly in the far distance:
An injustice that is so obvious requires immediate action- not delay until some report is written by the very people that don’t want change and have just argued that very position in court.
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Do We Really Lack the Courage to Debate the Alt-Right? Do We Really Lack the Ideas to Defeat Them?
Over the past few days Molyneux and Southern have very skilfully tested our tolerance – and we have failed. They’ve also tested our ability to re-state, re-affirm and justify our commitment to freedom of expression. We failed that test too.
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Since when were we on the Left frightened to fight crypto-fascsists?
Look, I don’t think these alt-right polemicists should gain access to council venues either, just as I wouldn’t want ISIS recruitment seminars in the Town Hall, KKK monthly meet & greets in Council Chambers or Man love Boy Association annual sing alongs at Silo Park, but I still support them appearing if they find a private venue, just as I am prepared to protest their appearing!
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The disconnect between platforming fascists and stopping them recruiting more
Where I would accept the use of Council venues is if it were a debate. If these far right protagonists want to come to NZ to just demand a pulpit to preach from, there’s the door, but if they were prepared to debate their views under debate rules, step on up, let’s have the debate because here’s the real problem for us on the Left and the progressive side of politics, this isn’t going away.
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So technically, NZ is less environmental than Al Qaeda
So technically, NZ is less environmental than Al Qaeda?!? If you add the pointlessness of being carbon neutral by 2050 when the polar caps will be melted by 2030, our generations ‘nuclear moment’, as proclaimed by Jacinda is not exactly, “I can smell the Uranium on your breath from here’ moral certainty and more, “I can smell the garlic down wind from you at an all you can eat garlic festival” undistinguishable passiveness.
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Plastic Pollution by Manufactured Consent
Supermarkets and retail outlets have moved an inch toward addressing the hundreds of millions of plastic bags usually in a one-way journey to the landfill, by phasing out single-use check out carry bags at various outlets.
But the pervasiveness of plastic in our lives and in the environment show both market failure, and government failure, to adequately deal with the forces of production creating pollution problems way bigger than free bags at the till.
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What Farrar misses with his claim the NZ Herald is a socialist rag
Farrar needs to claim the media are left wing all of a sudden to delegitimise wider debate and new voices joining that debate.