Posts by Che Tibby
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Kumara Republic,
because somehow it doesn’t apply to the Aborigines.
it is an honorary whites policy. the idea was to acclimatize "wogs" so they'd fit in better over generations. they still use it for Asians and Africans. the fly in the ointment was the effect that it was projected to have on the white population (and which it did).
aboriginal people on the other hand were explicitly excluded from the policy, whereas in NZL we have an implicit multicultural policy for Asians/Pacific Islanders, and an explicit bicultural policy for Maori (and which is allied to, but a different beast from multiculturalism).
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Russell Brown,
so they buried her at the gate, when they said goodbye to him.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Russell Brown,
not by inflicting humiliation and exclusion on their families.
but surely the act itself does that anyway?
how many parents ask, "why have they done this to us? how can i look people in the eye knowing what they'll think of us?"
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to merc,
Gavin Pike felt Mr Flavell made his comments out of frustration.
my reading as well. people are reaming him, but, what are we do about suicides? how do you make people, depressed, lonely, [other] people realise how intensely selfish their act is? make them realise that no matter how dark that space they're in is, there is always a light in the high window?
having been in that room, the only thing that brought me out was knowing the harm and shame it would cause my family, friends, and the future i'd be closing off.
easy answers to my questions can be sent on a postcard to the appropriate address.
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re: Farrar. the farmer is only a little responsible for the dog biting the sheep.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I think you could point to the toxic public discourse in the United States as a significant problem.
it is a significant problem. when "free speech", a concept created to protect the few from the powerful, is used to demonise or denigrate the powerless then you have the exact opposite of the society we aspire to.
i sometimes wonder if two racists meeting a pub and realising they share the hate that dare not speak its name is better or worse than many of them discovering each other at Kiwiblog.
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one of the great ironies is that multicultural policies, as implemented in australia and canada, are actually intended to first integrate, then assimilate ethnic minorities. the explicit intention of the policy is to make it easier for minorities to blend in.
the evidence of its success is places like lygon street in melbourne, and the wholesale digestion of vietnamese, greek and italian cultures by “mainstream” australians.
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OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to Andre,
Almost all older kiwis own their own homes.
i would want to see numbers on that.
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sean, you find that trip-trapping noises make you a little angry?
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OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to Steve Barnes,
The rail car fiasco is a good example. Laying off workers because buying rail-cars from China is cheaper in the short term ignores the fact that those workers will become unemployed, therefore increasing their private debt burden at the same time as increasing welfare payments.
it also means that the expertise to maintain them is diminished. the Wellington Matangi trains are an example (AFAIK)