Posts by mark taslov
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Farmer Green,
Labour’s attempts to widen it’s appeal in the name of discredited liberal identity politics,
Would you expand ?
Widen it’s appeal to slut-shamers, victimisers, RadioLive listeners, misogynists and Tom.
Trump: "Some of my best friends are Russian..."
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Farmer Green,
So . . .
I’m sorry FG, I missed the inference - I appreciated the intellectual honesty of Dr Porter’s conclusion.
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Scott G,
The book of Revelation has always been a popular choice in America.
British And American ‘Imperialisms’ Compared
Nowadays it is also backed up by a new kind of historicism: the idea that modern America exemplifies the ‘end’ of history - that is, its final destination (Francis Fukuyama); and, powerfully, by religion. America, said George W. Bush in August 2000, has been ‘chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world.’
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
despicable tactics on all sides.
Domestically, marginal MSM* opinion makers are flaunting more alarmist doctrine, both on the left
"Donnie Darko makes George W. Bush and his war on Iraq look like a mere skirmish."
and the right.
"Liberal feminazi doctrine considers the notion of being pro-women and pro-life as an incompatible evil."
*Stuff.co.nz
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
To be fair he’s been through an ordeal recently, but it’s indisputable that things have gone to the dogs when only the most pronounced error in a given paragraph now merits inclusion on The End of MSM thread:
Jackson’s likely to be joined by his former Alliance colleague Laila Haare, who incredibly linked arms with Kim Dotcom at the last election, and who now acknowledges that the association tarnished her image. It seems it’s not tarnished enough for be part of the Labour team though.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Rich Lock,
I imagine being someone in Iraq who has lost her mother, her husband, her son and her daughter in a US bombing. I count death tolls. Death upon death upon death upon death. Some profess to have this or that ideology but the result, the outcomes, the actual impact on human beings like you and I’s lives is the same. Unarmed and black, we might get shot by cops. Pakistani, we might be sliced in two by a drone. Syrian, we might choke to death on chemicals, Yemeni, we might get disintegrated by a 500lb laser-guided US-made bomb at a funeral. Things are very bad and they have been for a long time.
“I do not admit… that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia… by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race… has come in and taken its place.”
I distinguish between being a white supremacist and a warmonger (ideologically driven or otherwise), and it’s the latter capacity in Bannon that scares me most – that and as a propagandist.
I guess having heard a number of first hand accounts of the genocides that took place in a largely monocultural China, I’m acutely aware that genocide is genocide – if it’s not race, there’s always some “subversive community” to target and exterminate – and every life matters.
I don’t mind stalling, I appreciate the good faith with which you engage Rich.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Rich Lock,
Your argument veers dangerously close to the sort of argument that bloviating windbags like Piers Morgan here in the UK throw up all the time: ‘why are you protesting [bad thing X], when [bad thing Y] is also happening?’
It may well do, but again one might argue that making the distinction is crucial, because I don’t lack answers as to why anyone would protest Trump, I’ve spent more than enough time over the last year debating people who wish to see their country “made great again”, who want to “build a wall” who want to “make America white again”, who’ve called me a chick with a dick for my trouble, I’m not sure what kind of rebuttal you may have experienced in your travels but for me PAS is a sanctuary from all that, somewhere to explore things in more depth and I’m not the absolutist you’re attempting to paint into a corner.
I’m not in that box Rich.
With all due respect, I’m mindful of parallels and equivalence and how protesting these issues in our own regions need not be mutually exclusive of protest elsewhere. I mentioned excessive Godwins, not because I don’t see parallels, but rather that the one oft-trotted reference has lost its potency and is insufficient when there may remain as many parallels as one may care to educate oneself about. The more parallels, the more equivalencies, the more awareness and the more vigilance the better IMHO.
Life doesn’t grind to a halt because the US has a new president, and posting on these boards doesn’t erase others posts. I believe we are capable of far more nuanced communication; that we can discuss Trump and Brexit and Calexit and Bannon, the Alt-Right, white supremacy and white supremacists, intersex and abortion rights, misogyny and religion, foreign policy and domestic policy in as many countries under as many administrations, all within the same context.
It might be worth keeping in mind that it is you yourself that took issue with my comparison between a white supremacist and the white supremacy of structural discrimination in New Zealand, In linking to the author of The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It I imagine you’d be familiar with his work and have a reasonable idea as to how these forces transcend borders. As such, binary dichotomies of this nature hold less interest for me than intersectional analysis:
Does that not cause you any concern at all?
Because we’ve heard it all before: