Posts by Neil
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to simon g,
Tomorrow morning I’ll go to work in a stressful acute mental health setting with most likely some Chinese colleagues. I’d like to think Labour has some appreciation of mental health issues and doesn’t think the local Chinese community is some CCP fith column.
I’m not convinced by recent events.
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Labour supporters showing complete ignorance of mental health and the mental health act and going on about the yellow peril.
If there’s a problem with the centre right is this some sort of solution? A bit like Corbyn - is that the best the left can do.
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If Ross has been admitted under the mental health act Labour Party supporters should still stop shitting on mental health professionals by questioning if this was a stitch up by National.
It just is not possible and anyone with any concern for our mental health system would know that.
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Two points, it’s unclear whether Ross was placed under the mental health act – he could have been admitted as a voluntary patient. Secondly, there is no way a political party could influence that process. That allegation is a very nasty and ignorant smear against health professionals and does a great disservice to mental health.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Dennis Frank,
You ever see a prominent narcissist confess to having had a mental breakdown before?
A narcissist will try and avoid responsibility for their own actions and also play on public sympathy - in this case by claiming to be mentally ill.
He claimed mental illness when he is not unwell in order to cultivate public sympathy. And quite successfully.
He continues to portray himself as a victim and blame others for his own failings. Classic narcissism.
It’s a common strategy of anti social males.
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Some one else with a background of atrocious behaviour towards women and motivated by revenge not so long leaked selective information to cause political damage. With some success. And disconcertingly amassed quite the cult following. And like any entitled male didn’t do any housework.
It’s hard to know how best to counter the man with the grudge. They are highly focused and motivated whereas their opponents are hampered by having to play fair. They assault and kill their ex-partners out of jealous, processive rage.
Winston Peters is a classic case. A narcissist driven by revenge. But he’s got that charm that cons so many people.
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One of the woman involved has said she has no issue with how her complaint was handled by the National Party. No doubt Ross, given she may look to stand in Botany, will be tempted to challenge her integrity by alleging political motivations.
Highly narcissistic, predatory males such as Ross are often very difficult to deal to. They have the ability to appear to be the nicest person in the world, they’re highly adept at playing people off against each other and their lack of conscience allows them to lie with the utmost sincerity.
In his TV appearance he had a lot of people fooled.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to mark taslov,
Yes, I’ve seen those. I was more interested in what the woman had to say about how the Nats handled their situation. It’s hard to judge how it was delt with without knowing that.
Now it seems it was common knowledge in parliament that Ross was a predator. Well if it was then why so much silence from everyone.
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Before forming an opinion on how National responded to Ross’ sexual harassment I’d like to hear from the four women involved what their views on that are.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to izogi,
Ross doesn’t need help as he’s not unwell. He needs to face the consequences of his actions.
One aspect of this I found very disappointing was the use of mental illness as a device to manipulate and avoid responsibility. And it went largely unquestioned - for some that was politically convenient.
It should have been very clear that the claim of mental illness in this case was a shame.
But if it hadn’t been - if this was someone with a borderline personality disorder - then the last thing to do would be to give into their demands. That generally makes that illness worse.
The whole episode did a diservive to mental health.