Chinese Navy bring a listerning platform into Auckland Harbour for the New Zealand Election.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6030968/Chinese-spacecraft-tracker-berthed-in-harbour

I've also heard “model minority” from alleged progressives who are far too enlightened to let 'Uncle Tom' or 'house nigger' pass their lips, but still want to slap down people who…

It's the respectable, turd-polished racism out there that bothers me even more than those who are more overt about it. As in 'preserving our heritage', 'protecting public security', or using 'model minorities' (or to be dysphemistic, 'honorary Aryans')…

Anyhoo, my old man used to be quite racist too, in conversation if not in action perhaps. Then…

It's a shame as I really enjoyed your 'Supplementary member' post on the other thread.

I won't be engaging with you further on this thread.

BTW have we had the line about migrants living in grottoes yet? It was all the go with…

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At an Auckland Council hearing into the Auckland Plan, councillor Cathy Casey questioned the group's motives and asked whether they had anything to do with the election.

"I…

Ms Casey hit back saying she was Scottish, not Irish, and had lived in New Zealand for 25…

Very welcome it is too, for the most part. Still, would have been responsible of The Aucklander to provide a more balanced, fact-based story in the first place. And this still is as depressing as it is unsurprising.

Grey Power's national…

This weeks letters page also makes interesting reading, running at around 9:1 in favour of 'Des Denlop is an ignorant fool'.

Replace all the 'European' words with 'Maori'. Man did the tangata whenua…

And if that wasn't a lesson in what happens when intolerance is allowed to reign supreme, I don't know what was.

Oh, Susannah… next you’ll be telling Grey Power to mind the geographical failwhale of talking about keeping “the country’s population to remain Pacific-based and not have such…

I believe if you consult a map, you'll see this debate isn't taking place in a European country, so the argument hardly stands...

Sorry, I don't buy that. My father is older than Des, brought up English in a time when there was still an Empire and…

If anything, they're splintered across the political spectrum, just like modern Maoridom.

I'd like to see some empirical evidence of that, personally.

Europeans should also look to protect their culture by managing immigration carefully to ensure integration rather than displacement of the host culture(s).

And this is where the neo-Yellow Peril argument…

That said, I don’t see why predominantly european countries should ever voluntarily agree to become minorities. The Dalai Lama is hardly going to agree it’s a good idea to allow in greater numbers of Han Chinese, for the simple reason…

Fuck, do they? I'm 51. Those people have been life-long bigots and "all right for some" types who think that the patina of age gives their vile opinions some credibility. I plan to stay a human…

Can I haz that on T-shirt plz?

Oh, that's a perfectly fair point – it will be a fair few years…

But with all due and sincere respect to Stewart, I'm not going to give ill-informed bigots indulgence use they're old; especially when they're operating under the banner of an inexplicably…

I don’t know where that came from. I’d just rather people like Dunlop shove their “I’m fifth generation so my ignorant…

My mother – who is part Maori – has had this uphill battle with the Scots side of the family (NOT from her own mother may I add! Who was Orcadian & ferociously on the side of her husband's people = Kai Tahu,)

There are family olds who…

With all due respect, Stewart, when do we stop giving elder xenophobia a pass? One of the more shameful landmarks in our electoral history was the…