Wait? WHAT! Rainbow Spies??? Is this a joke?
Wait? WHAT!
Rainbow spies: NZ’s Intelligence Community wins top LGBTTQI+ prize
Hollywood might have stereotyped spies as stale, pale, male womanisers – but that definitely doesn’t ring true in Aotearoa.
The New Zealand Intelligence Community has just won the top prize at this year’s Rainbow Excellence Awards.
The Westpac Supreme Award recognises the “journey” the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and New Zealand Security Intelligence Services (NZSIS) have been on to create more diverse and inclusive work environments.
This has included structural changes initiated through the rainbow-led “Stand Out” committee, through to more symbolic gestures including the Alan Turing-named meeting room – after the famous gay British code-cracker – and even flying the rainbow flag high over HQ during Pride Week.
What.
The.
Fuck?
Let me see, if I can get this completely fucking straight.
Some corporate virtue signalling middle class identity politics rainbow tick for diversity humble brag wankism has been awarded to the fucking SIS and GCSB?
The SIS and the GCSB have been given a big old rainbow tick for diversity have they?
For their journey?
Really?
Their journey?
The SIS who were busted in 2016 of having a racist in house culture, who were hassling Muslims, spying on environmentalists and keeping Māori under surveillance using third parties? The same SIS who missed a white supremacist plotting an atrocity for two years under their nose? That SIS have a rainbow tick for fucking diversity do they?
That’s their ‘journey’? Racist in-house culture, spying on progressive activists, white supremacist blindspot to rainbow diversity?
And what’s this? Our Racist in-house culture, spying on progressive activists, white supremacist blindspot Secret Intelligence Service is joined by the fucking Minions running the Eye of Mordor GCSB for also having the rainbow tick of diversity???
The 1984 Orwellian mass surveillance state with the power to spy on NZers rammed through under a misuses of urgency has a rainbow diversity tick?
YAY!
It’s like painting a war machine pink and proclaiming gender diversity isn’t it?
How on earth does this corporate virtue signalling middle class identity politics rainbow tick for diversity humble brag wankism exist?
You can’t write satire better than this.
They aren’t the intelligence apparatus of NZ emerged within the 5 Eye Mass Surveillance Deep State with a history of ignoring white supremacy while abusing power against Māori, trade unionists, environmentalists and journalists – oh no!
They are in fact a Rainbow Excellence Award winner. Middle Class Identity Politics Virtue Signalling never looked so much like camouflage.
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Self serving virtue signalling designed to mask illegal government mass surveillance for immoral corporate benefactors. This is pantomime for these control freaks in their gated communities, a nod to the public from woke shadow spooks. Sadly it’s inspiration for those craven civilians willing to do anything to reach the middle and impress their charges. To the neo-zealot religion has a new doctrine and it requires selling your soul or worse, dobbing in your neighbour. It’s as bad as brainwashing students to use rabid hate to nurture love (or likes). It’s building social media community but it presents as mob pathologies. Gaslighting, fear mongering, astro turfing, neologism word salads or straight up lying have been reimagined in this woke generation. Government’s don’t even bother to disguise disinformation now. Suspicion is the new presumption of guilt, people are commodities, access is power. It’s the same as the hero worship of Covid commandant Bloomfield or the fawning over Ardern as fairy change agent. Giving voyeurs in the spy sector praise for diversity is about as meaningful as illegally surveilling NZ citizens such as the ’88’ or Kim Dot-com, breaking multiple laws against Julian Assange including intercepting confidential lawyer-client privileges in a sovereign embassy, or allowing that intelligence officer to flee the UK after mowing down a motorcyclist. You may as well give a POTUS the peace prize. Spy on yourselves you criminals.
“The SIS who were busted in 2016 of having a racist in house culture, who were hassling Muslims, spying on environmentalists and keeping Māori under surveillance……who missed a white supremacist plotting an atrocity for two years under their nose? That SIS have a rainbow tick for fucking diversity do they?”
Well whaddya know: diversity hasn’t fixed what ails the SIS with regard to the prejudices and biases of its staff. Now who could’ve predicted that, huh?
In the past, intel and diplomatic services tried not to employ gay men, because it was believed that they were more susceptible to blackmail than straight men.