The C Word – How Right Wing Free Speech Champions become self pity wallowing victim Karens

Over the weekend on ‘Te Kaupapa’, Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast, Press Gallery Journalist, Claudette Hauiti made the observation that the C-word fight between Andrea Vance, Brooke Van Velden and Nicola Willis was middle class white feminism privilege.

Claudette noted that the vast majority of the women who are being robbed by the Government’s reversal and dumping of the Pay Parity claims are Māori and Pacifica women, and that the controversy between middle class white feminists taking offence at the C-word was their middle class white feminism privilege eclipsing working women of colour’s material reality.

Watching right wing Free Speech Champions clutch at their pearls and faint from the horror of the mere mention of the c word as these wealthy white women slash the pay parity of Māori, Pacifica and working women (and men) in roles long demeaned as ‘women’s work’ is an audacity too far.

I was surprised how the mainstream media (many led by Middle class women) joined in the nonsense with their focus on the wounded feelings of Brooke and Nicola.

There also seemed to be a grudge against Andrea Vance from those very same Political Media Doyennes.

Nicola and Brooke’s easily triggered modesty and Scarlet Lettering of Andrea Vance was apparently more important than the 200 000 working women (and men) who just got kicked in the balls.

There is no Government Economic Plan OTHER THAN to cut back on the State!

People are not appreciating how extreme and wide eyed a free market NZ Initiative fanatic Nicola Willis is!

She believes that if you cut back on the State, then the Free Market steps in and does the job ‘cheaper’.

The plan is to keep cutting into the State with all the frenetic passion of Elon Musk with a chainsaw.

Strangling off Pay Parity for the poorest working women so Nicola Willis can afford tobacco subsidies, more military, tax cuts and landlord loop holes is an obscenity.

Allowing pearl clutching over the c-word, and then blaming Andrea Vance for having the courage to say it that way it is some sort of strategic blunder is as pathetic as it is insincere.

The issue is the 200 000 working women and men paid billions less so a Free Market Stormtrooper can go romper stomper on the State. Pretending their modesty at the crimsons burning of their ears is somehow a justifiable response is Trump level gaslighting.

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