Posts by chris
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Why Labour should NEVER play the race card … because National doesn’t like the competition.
While that’s a clever one liner, the responses to the comments below just weren’t up to scratch;
land and housing should not be sold to non-New Zealand residents or citizens. If you want to buy a house or farm, become a citizen and move to New Zealand.
So no Students? No one with temporary working visas?
What part of becoming a citizen or permanent resident do you have difficulty with?
Resident or Permanent resident? It's just not up to snuff.
What really brought this home for me was Danyl’s post
Her point was that she experienced racism on a pretty frequent basis, mostly from guys yelling insults at her as they drove past in cars, and whenever politicians indulged in politics about Asian immigration it always felt like they were siding with the guys in the cars over her simply because there were more of them and politics is a numbers game.[…]If that’s all it is then why are so many Chinese New-Zealanders so offended by it? Could it be that white people who have never experienced racism aren’t the best arbiters of it, while ethnicities who experience racism on a routine basis know it when they see it, and are pretty damn sure they’re seeing it now?
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Polity: A week on from the housing controversy, in reply to Sacha,
Is there any recent data about how true it still is?
I wonder whether any nationwide issue wouldn’t be centered around income. We’re not currently experiencing a nationwide jump like 02-03, are we? Time will tell.
http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/statistics/key_graphs/house_prices_values/
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Polity: A week on from the housing controversy, in reply to ,
The Kiwi dream of owning a home, bloody well is not slipping away.
Careful there Steven, we wouldn’t want to upend the narrative as stated in the otherwise balanced Liam Dann piece that Russell linked to:
"Auckland house prices have been identified as an issue of social concern for the New Zealand people."
There will be no recount on that decision, it’s been identified, the media have hooked a worm, so concerned we must be, for this is Auckland - both figs mandatory.
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That was solid Keith, now is there any way we can get you and Rob on the same thread? He seems confident enough rebutting others more directly.
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Polity: A week on from the housing controversy, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Deja vu, anyone?
It’s just one long slow frustrating continuum for me.
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
How patronising was that guy? Cultural imperialism at worst. The second and foreign language users now outnumber the natives quite significantly. Keep telling yourself what they need to know.
Second Language Users and Emerging English
DesignsConclusion:
As problematic as the label “ESL student” already is for students themselves and for other stakeholders, it becomes even more so in light of the possibility that second language users may have much to teach.
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Polity: A week on from the housing controversy, in reply to Rob Salmond,
Labour cares about this because the Kiwi dream of home ownership is rapidly slipping away from young New Zealanders of all ethnicities.
Seems to me like Labour only cares about Aucklanders and business owners. It is neglect of the regions that has caused this bubble, not offshore buyers. Drive down the main streets of Gisborne, Wairoa, Hastings, Waipukurau, see the empty storefronts, see the kids loitering outside the Pak n Save, kids who’ll most likely never be able to afford a house anyway, not when it was the mum and dad investors who were at fault, not when it was the property speculators, not when it was the renovators, not when it was the German, not now it’s the Chinese and not when it will be the Russians. 1000s of people who will never have a shit show of owning their own house regardless of who’s buying ahead of them because there aren’t the jobs and opportunities. See the opportunities you’re not offering, see the opportunities you’re not pushing with your perseverance on this Rob.
Cruise down Queen street Wairoa at 7pm and witness the boom, 5 fish and chip shops open and nothing else, shops staffed by hardworking Chinese (whose visa status or ancestry I’m not really prioritising thank you very much all the same Labour, that’s just me) whose lives you’ve just made more difficult. Check out some of the $60,000 houses there while you’re at it. See the $50,000 houses in Bluff, in Taumurunui, in Mossburn, in Raetihi, in Shannon, in Blackball, in Eltham and New Plymouth, in Owaka or Gore or Patea, in Castlecliff and Ashburton. Where are all these people selling up and moving to? Somewhere less neglected; there’s so many bullets at your disposal but you bought a knife.
Look at the real estate right around the rest of the country excluding Auckland and see how close to RV they’re asking, see how little that has inflated, see how much below RV they’re getting. And what happens when this money stops flowing into Auckland from offshore, now that - quelle surprise - dairy is tanking. Nothing much good is what happens. From what I’ve read so far, all I can see is that you don’t care about New Zealand, not the country, not the whole country, all it looks like you’re interested in is sustaining your posh little habit.
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to Kalka River,
because of this people often mean han culture han people when they refer to chinese.
But isn’t it high time that we break down that stereotype in the interests of reducing ignorance and learning something from this whole shitfest, increasing our awareness? Or is that too idiotic to attempt?
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to Kalka River,
By Chinese sounding names we mean names that belong to the dominant Han ethnicity, dominant by numbers you idiot.
Why just Han? Sounds fairly exclusionary, which was my point, strangely.
Just like if we said English sounding names, we would probably mean ‘Smith’ or ‘Watson’
So no Blair or Cameron then...?
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to David Hood,
I assume for the car offer, it is OK to match against secondary sources, just as labour also used other sources to match against? I should perhaps give you the option to reconsider the offer first though.
While I could think of a hundred better things to spend your time doing, I understand this is kind of your thing so go for your life David.
