Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Russell Brown,
Maybe you could work your way up to one zinger a day :-)
That was me for like two years.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Russell Brown,
Seriously? No. People come up with enough nastiness in their own.
We faked the Moon landing. And trolling.
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I suspect Teju Cole is about twice as clever as he thinks he is.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Russell Brown,
David Herkt's "nasty", "bile-spitting", "bullying" obituary for Charlotte.
Eh?
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My tweets had the virtue of inviting her to tour an inclusive school. Her response was to unfollow me. And the critical comments appended to her post were removed. So engaging in good faith doesn't always work either.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Russell Brown,
I don't think of Brownlee fat jokes as bullying per se -- I doubt he feels bullied -- so much as the kind of speech that normalises bullying.
Spot on. And largely the reason why I felt compelled a little while ago to tweet this. (I'm not actually all that concerned about Slater's feelings per se.)
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Russell Brown,
It tends to be a hallmark of performative pile-ons to disqualify intent as a factor.
Weeelll... I thought Rachel Smalley's rant on mainstreaming special needs kids last week was deeply offensive. By countering that it wasn't her intention to offend, she thought that this was sufficient to change the meaning of what she has said. And I find this deeply problematic.
You may not mean to be offensive, but sometimes it just means you can't see that what you're saying is offensive. And someone needs to tell you. And you need to be open to hearing their reasons.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Russell Brown,
But look at the stupid Polly Gillespie pile-on recently. Her dumb comment about the danger for foreign tourists of NZ beaches was stripped of its context (the Piha Rescue TV show) and people went nuts about.
Even with the context, it was an unfortunate tweet, and she didn't help her cause in her responses to her critics. But suddenly it was like the rotational New Zealand twitter feed had become the New Zealand Herald or the TVNZ evening news, and Gillespie a powerful and influential media commentator who deserved to be taken down. It was a bizarre spectacle.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
that point can be made without slighting references to his weight or appearance, calling him a fag or wishing a painful and violent death upon his head.
That's several steps beyond "rude".
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Stephen Judd,
I want to preserve my right to be rude to the deserving
Stephen Judd, the one who nails it.