Hard News: For the kids, if nothing else
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
“One law” advocates don’t seek equality. How can there be any equality when the rules you want the parties to abide by were written by your side?
Once again, the above slogan has been used since antiquity to subjugate lesser peoples under the guise of equality. In practice, it's more like "some are more equal than others".
Inane and simplistic comments like those from commenter #3 to this Karlo Mila article can easily read straight from a David Duke manifesto.
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"When cultures clash there is very often no discernible right or wrong–just difference. Who are we to say that our western model of jurisprudence and political thinking is superior?"
i hotly disagree. When cultures clash 'tis not a matter of difference, for when cultures clash 'tis coz they have discovered themselves to suddenly occupy the same stage/scene-of-representation.. If violence is to be avoided, this co-presence requires now nothing less than the displacement of what heretofore was the understood orientation of all to a fixed sacred centre.. thus we have a problem of terrifying 'sameness', not mere difference.. -
Sacha, in reply to
“One law” advocates don’t seek equality. How can there be any equality when the rules you want the parties to abide by were written by your side?
I think that is a brilliant position - Thanks.
Yes, Scott explained it well. As does one of my fave instructional cartoons about equity (and can we add picture embedding to the future wishlist, please).
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I’d like to hear other perspectives on his claim that Maori never speak ill of the dead. It sounds like total bullshit to me.
Probably is bullshit, and in that claim he was therefore probably wrong.
However the question wasn't put to Maori, it was put to Hone Harawira, so I can understand him having a position (wherever he got it from) that he won't speak ill of the dead.
He didn't do it very well and he's dug himself a hole as a result, but it's not an unreasonable position to hold.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
However the question wasn’t put to Maori, it was put to Hone Harawira, so I can understand him having a position (wherever he got it from) that he won’t speak ill of the dead.
He didn’t do it very well and he’s dug himself a hole as a result, but it’s not an unreasonable position to hold.
Agreed, however the question was also put to Pita Sharples. No one seemed to complain that he had the same view as Hone.
Many cultures don't like to speak ill of the dead, and many (as an aside) find celebrating someone's death quite deplorable.
Mayan and Aztecs on the other hand.... -
Alex Coleman, in reply to
Agreed, however the question was also put to Pita Sharples.
Was a bit interesting that a Minister of the Crown calling it an "assassination" didn't get any attention at all.
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