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  • Hard News: Debating Clydesdale,

    I heard Clydesdale say "soci-you-ologist", which I wondered was perhaps a derisive variant.

    too many black notes", i.e. musical notes that are failing to contribute to New Zealand's economic growth.

    Well-spotted. And his report (now that I've forced myself to read most of it and the associated peer reviews) is riddled with assumptions about what contribution means, and about who contributes. It's sloppy for any discipline that claims to be academic. Regurgitating old-fashioned stereotypes is not going to help Clysdesdale or anyone else "care about my country" no matter what they believe needs to change (and note the difference between "my" country and "our" country).

    installation art that critically deconstructs bourgeois assumptions of animation in an interactive situation.

    Both hilarious and chillingly accurate. Saw the Thunderbirds stage show years ago and immediately thought of our Lockwood. Post-structurally of course.

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Debating Clydesdale,

    Silly that people are calling him a racist. I am sure his criteria for who should be allowed to move here is not a race-based criteria. No one's that daft anymore.

    You'd hope not, but the clue is that he has chosen to focus purely on Pacific migrants, not Asian or American or English or South African.

    Culture is about ethnicity, not about the older concept of race. Belonging is the key, and Clydesdale raises interesting questions about the costs of negotiating belonging - but not enough about the benefits.

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Debating Clydesdale,

    Simon, you may not be coming at this from a racist perspective, but I'd say Clydesdale is. He talks about cultural similarity as if all cultures should be the same as his one (which I have a hunch is not Pacific). He is also simply academically sloppy as others have discussed. There's room for sensible debate about immigration and national productivity.

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  • Hard News: Debating Clydesdale,

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

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