Posts by keeaa
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Yeah, what Craig said, only mine was shorter.
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Doing the same to Bennett just repeats the offence.
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The people grieving Metiria's harsh exit see journalists as pursuing the poor, brown solo mum she was 20-odd years ago. Journalists are obliged to see her as the Member of Parliament she's been for the past 15 years, as a would-be member of the country's governing executive.
MP or not, she is still brown and a mum (therefore woman). These facts combined with this being about poor-person's lying, as opposed to middle-class lying (eg. tax cheating) has everything to do with the ferocity of the "pursuit" and how much it was likely to succeed.
Gordon Campbell is the only white male writer with a regular platform I have found that seems to understand this:
It goes to show the double standard in politics is alive and well. Which one, you may ask – the one where a different standard of behaviour is applied to politicians on the centre-left as opposed to those on the centre-right? Check. The one where far less is expected of white male politicians than brown female ones? Check. The one where benefit fraud gets treated far, far more harshly than tax fraud? Check. All of the above.
"Journalists" were successful in "doing their job" here because of the presence of each of institutional classism, racism and sexism. The rest of them don't seem to want to acknowledge this.
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Leilani Momoisea has contributed this, which I feel we could all benefit by reading:
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Well, this certainly is separating the Labour supporters from the Greens supporters.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Because she's an honest person first and a politician second. Some people apparently can't understand that.
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Hard News: Be careful what you wish for, in reply to Russell Brown,
States that passed voting restrictions saw decreased turnout, flipped to Trump
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I can agree with all of this except "it would be nice (and good for New Zealand) to have a New Zealander in the role". Best person for the job should get it, no matter where they're from, and New Zealand is well down the list of countries that need "good" to come from the UN.
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Like many, I would like a new flag, but not THAT one. For me the silver fern is about sport and marketing, not a national symbol I can identify with. And Red Peak was still too red, white and blue for me.
I hoped for a design that would represent the landscape of this country, hopefully appealing to all as showing what it is like to live HERE. For me that is the sea, forests and mountains = horizontal blue, green and white bands in a well-designed arrangement.
Gets away from sport, colonial history baggage and any marketing emblems - not about our society, but about our PLACE.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Perhaps you should consider the impact of what you quote, rather than repeating it.