Posts by mark taslov
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Paul Anka's 'My Way'
Which shares motifs with Charles Dumont and Michel Vaucaire's 'Non, je ne regrette rien'
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to andin,
Toxic culture
Yes Andin, toxic masculinity.
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to WH,
Ezra Klein interview with JD Vance that has a broadly similar focus.
A good interview
But to connect it to the conversation about white privilege, I think it’s always important to note that there are obviously still advantages to being white, there are still disadvantages to being black, even when you control completely for class, income, and so forth. But one of the points I tried to make is that if you’re asking the son of an unemployed West Virginia coal miner to check his privilege or to appreciate the ways in which, let’s say, Barack Obama’s daughters are going to be privileged or underprivileged relative to him in certain ways, I think that you’re asking just too much from basic human cognition.
That kid cannot look at his life and say about a group of people that he doesn’t understand, that he doesn’t even interact with a lot day to day, that their lives are much worse than his, and I think that’s one of the things that the modern discourse around racial privilege and racial disadvantage misses. I don’t think most of the people making these arguments are that reductive, I think they’re a lot more sophisticated in what they’re saying [about] how privilege operates along different dimensions in our society, but the way it’s actually talked about appears very reductive, and I think that’s a really significant problem.
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to WH,
this David Frum article which is also very interesting.
I was just reading that, in parts reminiscent of the approach Lynn was proposing over the page.
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Access: Murder – it’s not OK., in reply to Hilary Stace,
so they become known as real people, with interests and personalities.
Some great suggestions outlined here Hilary, and very well put.
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
My respect for him and his family will never diminish;
That’s fair enough Katharine, Willie Jackson’s worst excesses are representative of many and his best attributes are what single him out. He certainly didn’t select himself for a place up the list of our oldest political party three years after the fact (Joe's link):
Which underscores why Little’s open and strong advocacy for Jackson has gone down like a lead balloon among some in the party – not least because it gazumps the party’s constitutional role in selecting candidates. After all he must first become a member, win a waiver of the 12-month membership rule and then get selected and ranked.
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to mark taslov,
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Nick Russell,
an attempt to kill off the Maori Party
Accomplishing this is by slapping rape victims in the crotch? I strongly suspect their vision for our country. Who backs the rapists?
Timing is everything.
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Emma Hart,
I’m sure we all remember Tom telling us was an enormous success.
Yes Emma, vividly, I took notes::
"So we need to understand – rather than spend months agonising about the race/gender mix of your party list spend time developing policies that appeal to th broad range of the population and build alliances with anyone who wants to help on a specific issue"
What I didn’t take that to mean – at the time – was ‘fast track a “reformed shock jock” with an aptitude for putting NZ’s daughters in their place’.