Uffindell, Gaurav Sharma and the Cult of Wounds

I think you will all recall that I argued that we shouldn’t attempt to destroy Sam Uffindell over an act of private school boy hazing he committed when he was 16, however many of our woke comrades saw this as an opportunity to do the heteronormative white cis male shuffle and it was off to the races with the focus on identity and privilege.

Speaking of identity and privilege…

Dame Tariana Turia’s grandson sentenced to home detention after attempted armed robbery

Turia appeared before Judge Stephanie Edwards for sentencing on one charge each of assault with intent to rob and dangerous driving.

His grandmother Dame Tariana – a former Associate Corrections Minister – and his wider whānau were in court for the hearing, defence lawyer Jamie Waugh said.

…you know, in case we wanted examples.

I said to judge a person on their 16 year old self was petty and shallow WHILE defending lowering the voting age to 16, WHILE demanding the criminal age of responsibility be lifted!

I believe young people make mistakes and they need mercy.

The issue with the way Sam was treated WASN’T that he received mercy, the issue is that Māori kids, Pacifica Kids and Woking class kids DON’T see mercy.

I don’t minimise the harm Uffindell has committed, but I do demand contextualisation of his age and that we are talking events two decades ago.

I don”t care about National MPs, and I’ve got zero time for his privilege, but he’s a human being and judging him on his childhood so the revisionist micro aggression policing movement can collectively pile all their own childhood trauma onto one target is boring and terribly dull, especially when we have so many actual fucking issues confronting us.

If only we on the Left were as good at strangling off child poverty, strangling off the cost of living crisis and strangling off housing unaffordability the way are at strangling off National MP careers for things they did 2 decades ago.

Then Sam got the ‘Santamaria treatment’ with RNZ using the Salam Witch Trial evidential standard by interviewing an anonymous woman about a drunk Sam banging on her door 20 years ago.

His shitty flat also had girls underwear on the wall.

WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN WHILE CLUTCHING PEARLS!

Hash tag solidarity. Hash tag feminism. Hash tag BELIEVE all women.

In the middle of this gleeful schadenfreude suddenly Dr Gaurav Sharma drops a nuclear confession that actually, the Government are all bullies.

There was a moment of confusion by the woke Lynch mob, if Sam bad evil bully for events he committed 2 decades ago, surely the revelations of bullying now by a serving member of Parliament requires even more outrage olympics, yet it was our side being accused!

After appreciating the philosophically tenuous position their Lynch mob had placed them, the woke doubled down and began damning Labour and supporting Dr Sharma right up until it started sounding like the problem was a staffing issue in HIS office.

Dr Gaurav Sharma has gone full Jami-Lee Ross.

Who is bullying who?

In this age of subjective rage where there is no objective truth, there is only your measurement of triggered micro aggressions to decide what is innocuous and what is a hate crime.

We are now a cult of wounds, all so quick to expose our scars in the intersectionist roulette of victimhood, a social media ocean of cacophony that screams our pain for cultural hierarchy

We have a dispassionate court process that takes the emotion out of the justice process so that it is clear eyed and not drenched in vengeance.

I can’t tell the difference between a sensible sentencing trust Lynch mob and a woke lynch mob any longer!

Praps, as a country, as a culture, as a people, we all need a big cup of harden the fuck up?

There is something to be said of forgiving those who transgress you and being stoic about what we can control.

The ever shifting Rubik’s cube of woke identity politics dogma endlessly gazing at ones naval to expose the next thought criminal builds little.

Currently we have a compulsory mass group therapy session where people’s feelings are the only currency.

While we unforgivingly tie ourselves endlessly in knots, National intend to throw disabled young people off welfare, the ASB posted a $1.4billion profit and the planet continues to burn.

But sure, let’s crucify Sam Uffindell for something he did when he was 16 because you know, heteronormative white cis male privilege and ‘bullying bad mmmmkay’!

Our brittle weakness is collectively beneath the challenge of our times.

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