Posts by Idiot Savant
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Great post title. As for the substance, I'm all for calling the Maori Party on selling out their core constituency in favour of rich iwi elites, or holding Hon Harawira to account for his slacking on the job - but you can do that without pandering to racism and a sense of Pakeha grievance, which is what Goff was clearly trying to do.
As for Trotter, he's yesterday's man, fighting yesterday's wars (and wars that matter little to anyone outside of a tiny clique of marxist theorists, to boot). And he's already lost. As much as he might wish it, women, Maori and gays aren't going to just get back into the kitchen/closet/whatever and go away; they'e not going to say "silly me, of course my concerns don't matter. What really matters is the class struggle, which of course is only about straight white males"; they're not going to subordinate their interests to his and accept a permanent second-class status. And if Trotter's political theory is incapable of accepting that, that's really his problem.
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I reckon the target market for the advert is middle-aged voters who want to be reassured that the police are "doing something about yoof".
In much the same way that military recruitment ads are about inspiring patriotic old codgers and making them feel Safe From the Japs (who own their retirement home and made their car), rather than actually recruiting young people.
I learned it from The Hollow Men (the TV show, not the book). It must be true.
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Off Topic, but good to see the provocation defense has gone.
Anyone know who/why five MPs voted to keep it?ACT, of course. Why would they vote for the law to regard gays as human beings?
However, I don't like the way laws like this are developed. Usually there's some outcry about something (like Clayton Weatherston being a douchebag), and the government rushes to act by introducing legislation. I know the Law Commission had issued a report on it, but there's loads of reports gathering dust just waiting to be acted on.
The Law Commission indeed issued a report. It duly went on the pile of "things to do sometime but which are not a priority" until the perfect storm of Banjo-boy plus Weatherston (and an opposition member's bill inspired by the former) forced the government to finally act.
Without those cases, there would have been a Labour member's bill eventually, and it would have passed handily. All he did was give the process a help along.
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That is exactly what the Central Christchurch Liquor ban has increased.
It is legal to drive through with alcohol in your car.
But cops are stopping kids, searching their cars and pouring the priviously unopened piss into the Avon.Isn't that called theft?
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Big, big love to whoever it is at Prime who is getting this stuff over so fast, and indeed at all.
I think they figured out that if they didn't, people would torrent it.
TVNZ's snappy decision to screen "V" has just saved me some bandwidth. OTOH, whichever moron isn't screening Dolhouse only has themselves to blame.
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Can someone explain to me why this is considered racist?
And that's why its called dogwhistling.
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Should I be blushing, or was that a general observation?
A general observation.
But I guess we should be encouraged that even The Standard can't quite bring itself to deep throat Phil's teabag
I waiting for it. meanwhile, I'm expecting the sewer to denounce Goff in exactly the same terms he used todenounce Brash in 2004
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Meanwhile, I am now waiting for those who condemned Brash in 2004 to support Goff, while those who supported Brash condemn him...
Or, maybe some people will show some consistency for once. I would like to be surprised, I really would.
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he's a decent man who will cynically pander to them for a poll point.
That's a contradiction in terms. People who pander to bigots aren't decent in any sense of the word.
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OTOH, Scoop says it all with their headline:
"Race Relations: Goff Gives Speech To --Orewa Rotary Club-- Grey Power Palmerston North"
Ouch. But oh, so accurate. (And yes, on PN we do gay bashings and racism...)