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Written By: r0b - Date published: 1:30 pm, March 11th, 2010 - 31 comments
The light sentences handed down to most of the group that killed Navtej Singh have caused consternation within the NZ Indian community. With the Human Rights Commission today releasing a statement on worrying trends of racism in NZ, now is a terrible time for the legal system to be sending all the wrong messages.
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 10:37 am, March 6th, 2010 - 6 comments
Fran O’Sullivan is a pro-business liberal or libertarian, David Garrett is a knuckle brain conservative. But actually, they’re not so far apart. It seems both believe in freedom for the rich and control over the poor. Incredibly O’Sullivan goes into bat for Garrett over his sterilisation comments.
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 11:51 pm, February 28th, 2010 - 56 comments
Former ACT Deputy Leader Muriel Newman has launched into a racist tirade that amounts to ‘bloody bludging Maoris’. Incredibly, Rodney Hide agrees, saying that Maori have a culture of dependency. To ACT, poverty isn’t the result of an unequal and unfair economic system, it’s a lifestyle choice. They say Maori are morally deficient and to blame for their poverty.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:08 am, December 23rd, 2009 - 11 comments
Poring around the nets while I’m on holiday is turning out to be quite interesting looking at summaries of science. I’ve been picking out some for discussion here. Here is a post from Knol with a summary on why Europeans are so pale.
They discuss well-known ultraviolet / vitamin D linkage with the consequent diseases.
UV rays …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 12:12 pm, November 27th, 2009 - 110 comments
Phil Goff’s speech on ‘nationhood’ was always going to be seen as an attempt to pull a Brash, regardless of what it actually said. The narrative was set from the start, and it’s fair to suspect that Goff’s people knew that and thought they’d take the risk anyway. You don’t make a speech on the …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 7:17 am, November 23rd, 2009 - 39 comments
John Key sure is a class act. Not. Latest example*:
Stadium funds: We’re not Indian-givers, says Key
Prime Minister John Key yesterday said the Government was unlikely to ask for its $15 million back if the Forsyth Barr Stadium is not finished in time for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. … The issue of whether …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 1:57 pm, November 15th, 2009 - 66 comments
I know this point/counterpoint series of posts on Hone Harawira maybe getting a bit tiresome but I have to disagree with the assertion in a couple of recent ones that Harawira has been treated more harshly Bill English and Rodney Hide or, by implication, than a Pakeha in his situation would have. And I think that those …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:00 am, November 13th, 2009 - 73 comments
Frankly, I don’t appreciate being called a white motherf**ker, by Buddy Mikaere and Hone Harawira. Before you start, that’s not to deny that Pakeha stole vast amounts of Maori resources despite the treaty signed between the Crown and iwi, and in spite of the Crown’s own laws. The thief – the Crown – and the victims – the …
Written By: the sprout - Date published: 3:45 pm, November 11th, 2009 - 112 comments
OK, so Hone says
If I should be suspended for my language, he [Phil Goff]
and his mates should be lined up against the wall and shot.
Just as saying something about [blue] mofos does not mean therefore all [blues] are mofos, the comment about Goff is not an incitement nor is it meant other than figuratively. It is …
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 10:32 am, November 11th, 2009 - 19 comments
Check out this press release:
Maori Leader Rejects Harawira Apology as “Embarrassing” and issues his own apology
Ngapuhi Leader and senior relative to Hone Harawira, David Rankin, says he is embarrassed by the apology the MP has given.
“Harawira has disgraced our iwi with his gutter language, and has casued more racial division in New Zealand society than …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 12:00 pm, November 2nd, 2009 - 17 comments
Strange mea culpa from Don Brash on the foreshore and seabed in today’s Dom. He doesn’t go as far as to apologise for National’s cynical and deliberate attempt to ignite racial conflict in the leadup to the 2005 election, but he does admit that National “got it wrong” on the foreshore and seabed.
Wonder what the …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 3:56 pm, October 9th, 2009 - 37 comments
I see Winston Peters is trying to resurrect his political career with another racist rant about immigration. I don’t think there’s much point in giving the man any more attention. My views are pretty much the same as No Right Turn.
All I’d add is that it’s actually kind of tragic to see Winston carry on …
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 1:00 pm, September 17th, 2009 - 66 comments
Here’s something to look forward to New Zealand. Another round of that trumped up little egotist stirring racist populism to get himself in the news.
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:38 am, September 17th, 2009 - 39 comments
Last night, Sandra Goudie, the big-mouth of the National Party caucus, said the words out loud that the Nats usually keep in their heads. During the debate on the Supercity, one of the Labour MPs was talking about the success of Maori seats in the Bay of Plenty and how other councillors didn’t object. Goudie …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 12:10 am, September 6th, 2009 - 18 comments
Climate change is racist. Not literally of course, but in the sense that how people are affected by climate change is going to be largely determined by race. Those who are going to suffer the most are not “white”. From The Herald summary of a recent study:
The Climate Change Vulnerability Index (CCVI) …
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 11:30 am, September 3rd, 2009 - 66 comments
I know a dude who went to law school. In one of his lecture theatres was this ‘old guy’ who was always whining (especially about anything to do with Maori), couldn’t keep up with the material, and always seemed intent on making himself the centre of attention.
Finally, the dude leaned over to his mate one …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 10:00 am, July 30th, 2009 - 34 comments
Maori Party MP Rahui Katene’s Matariki Public Holiday Bill was before the House last night (I understand National is planning to vote it down when it comes to the vote in three weeks). Anyway, as a precursor, Katene asked a question on the Government’s attitude to Maori holidays during Question Time.
Chris Finlayson answered with nice platitudes. All …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 12:21 pm, July 3rd, 2009 - 15 comments
Further to my post yesterday, a reader sent in this quote from 2004:
Mr English’s view was not [National's] official line. As expressed by strategist Murray McCully, it is that the bill is a “charter for blackmail and rent-seeking by Maori interests”.
Let’s be clear. National opposed the Foreshore & Seabed Act because they thought it gave …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 10:00 am, July 2nd, 2009 - 77 comments
I’ll be glad to see the back of the Foreshore & Seabed Act. For many on the Left, including myself, its been a monument to Labour’s failure of nerve in the face of a campaign by National to exploit the underlying racism of Pakeha New Zealand for electoral gain.
Yes, there was a certain electoral logic …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 3:16 pm, July 1st, 2009 - 105 comments
The Foreshore and Seabed review panel have reported back with the recommendation that the law be scrapped and people be allowed to attempt to prove ownership rights over the foreshore and seabed in court as they can with any other land.
Good.
Ever since the Government issued a proclamation in 1872 to stop the Native Land Court …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 9:44 am, May 15th, 2009 - 34 comments
The PM’s office Melissa Lee has released an apology for her ‘crims on the motorway’ comments. Well, not a genuine apology – ‘it was a heated debate’ is the line, which TUMEKE! exposes as a lie and not an excuse anyway.
On Red Alert, Trevor Mallard (who is taking to blogging like, um, a duck to water) …
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 10:40 pm, May 14th, 2009 - 91 comments
In his blog, Colin Espiner asked: “But my question is this: National has known for months it was going to torpedo the tunnels. It knew this decision would kill its chances of winning Mt Albert. So why did no one tell Lee? And why did Key allow one of his new stars to stand in …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 12:00 pm, May 14th, 2009 - 68 comments
Over at Red Alert, the Labour MPs’ blog, Trevor Mallard points out that nominations for the Mt Albert by-election don’t close until next week.
If John Key, as Mallard puts it, “has the balls” he can tell Melissa Lee to stand down and the National selection can be held again.
Poor old Ravi Musuku might get his …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 7:30 am, May 14th, 2009 - 73 comments
And the ticking timebomb goes off. From Not PC on last night’s Mt Albert candidates’ debate:
Most of what every mainstream candidate had to say on the night was both instantly forgettable and intended only for short-term political advantage. But there was one thing one candidate said that is now going to dog her through the rest …
Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 8:29 am, May 12th, 2009 - 86 comments
Now before you start thinking the Standard has started spruiking for the National Front I should make it clear that the title quote of this post comes from Christine Rankin in 2007. She was talking about child abuse and claiming that Maori are the problem.
Now, in a move akin to putting Garth McVicar in charge …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 1:30 pm, May 7th, 2009 - 53 comments
Interesting article in the Herald today. It concentrates on a conversation between Melissa Lee and an old racist pharmacist from Mt Albert who won’t vote for her because she’s Asian.
It turns out that the Herald has interviewed many reasonable people (most of whom supported Shearer) for this piece. So why spend half the article on what some daft …
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 9:15 am, April 30th, 2009 - 11 comments
I think I can safely credit Israeli foreign policy with ruining my summer. If you’re the empathetic type it’s hard to go to the beach and swim in the sun while, several thousand miles beneath your feet, people are being killed en masse by people who should know better about how not to treat people …
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 2:31 pm, April 22nd, 2009 - 14 comments
Ray White, the renowned philosopher from Greytown, had a letter published by the Dominion Post on Monday wherein he says “I think it is great that Auckland Maori are to raise a hikoi in protest at not getting free representation on the new Auckland City Council. They could do with the exercise.”
Good grief. I know the …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 10:26 am, April 22nd, 2009 - 14 comments
It’s good that Labour has rejoined good leftwing principles over the foreshore and seabed.
Labour was spooked by the popularity of National’s race baiting into emulating them. They should never have denied iwi the right to go to court to try to establish their customary rights to sections of the foreshore and seabed.
There are some things …
Written By: Tane - Date published: 4:20 pm, February 13th, 2009 - 110 comments
Bruce Emery’s sentence of just four years and three months on a reduced charge of manslaughter for chasing 15 year old Pihema Cameron 300 metres down the street and stabbing him to death with a knife is a stark reminder of the institutional racism that still exists in this country.
Let’s not pretend for a …
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