Posts by Sacha
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
Attributing the problem to consents and zoning is pretty much an unsupported assertion.
Also a convenient right-wing talking point. Look guv, it's all the council's fault.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
That's the sort of kicking you open yourself to by putting your foot in your own mouth for them.
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Race Relations Commissioner comments.
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Twyford doubles down, misrepresents critics.
Aucklanders from all walks of life have offered their views. Many have welcomed what they see as a long overdue debate. Others, notably in the Twittersphere, have been quick to accuse me of racism because I have talked about a particular ethnic group.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
I do regret that Twyford was inelegant on his appearance on The Nation. This is a subject that needs more than a little elegance, what with NZ’s sordid history of fear and loathing.
Andrew Little has no regrets.
"We understood the risks but we thought that having got information that clearly highlights an issue that is consistent with what we've been saying, we made the judgment it should be disclosed. I think people need to know."
But finally rolls out a little more nuance.
"Our first moral duty is to those who live here, and that includes those of Chinese ethnicity who have chosen to live here, or whose parents or grandparents chose to live here. They are the people we care about."
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to
the data isn’t as robust as you’d like. On the other hand, it’s all there is.
yep. by comparison try looking for disabled people as a subgroup.
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I believe the reason why many of us saw it as racist was not just the analysis relying on ‘Chinese surnames’ (which Rob has defended the validity of) but Twyford’s associated messaging about ‘hard-working Kiwis’ as if they were a different group.
If Labour wanted to be smart about this they could have arranged for media a young NZ-Chinese couple trying to buy a first home and being thwarted by phone bids at auctions. Or many other things. They didn’t.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
the racist framing of the issue came from media reports rather than from the wording or interpretation used in the original analysis.
The framing came in Twyford's own words live on television. An unsubtle meathead like Cosgrove saying it may have attracted slightly less attention, but the response on twitter was immediate without any further mediation.
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to
where did you think some of our new commenters came from?
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to
I'm sorry if the author of this article feels offended.
Not an apology.
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