Posts by Sacha
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Please let's not get diverted by the suppression of someone's identity which is not the same thing at all as Russell patiently pointed out upthread.
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it derived from "Special Needs" which, to a point, is a good way of describing someone who needs a bit of help, more so than "Others" (excuse the deliberate logical twist).
You're not twisting far enough. Imagine you and a blind person entering a darkened room. Whose relationship with the light switch is "special"?
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I can't remember the advertising...it must have worked.
Garden waterfalls..
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I can't help hearing "invalid" as in "not valid".
I recommend deliberately pronouncing it that way. Especially when around those who had a chance to change its name but chose not to.
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I'd say "looming"
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emotional provocation is what the audience has been trained to want
True. Though it might be nice if at least occasionally it came at the expense of rich white wankers instead of the usual targets.
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I heard them mention that fucker Tane
That'd be the weather.
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We're simply required to stand up and take responsibility for what we say. If we say something offensive, we'd best be prepared to be called out on it, and if we're not prepared to explain, we should be prepared to apologise. If we do neither, we should be prepared to have others call us dicks.
Ae, that would work well if an equal platform were provided for rebuttal. Hence our broadcasters have traditionally assumed extra responsibility for reasonable and non-demeaning behaviour in exchange for a license and the megaphone that comes with it. The loose campaign of complaint that got Henry's goat is one way of equalising that power.
Meanwhile, Linley Boniface is told to 'have a laugh' and 'get over it' by those fun-loving 'anti-pc' folk who infest newspaper sites, for publishing this opinion about TVNZ:
should further staff redundancies be necessary, it could seamlessly replace its current Breakfast host with a freshly captured gibbon without significantly lowering the quality of its journalism.
Indeed, watching a jungle creature let loose on the set of Breakfast would give viewers roughly the same frisson of appalled fascination that many of us already experience while watching Paul Henry in action. Will the set be trashed? Will there be humping of the furniture? Will guests have their hair lovingly combed through for nits, or be spat at?
Heh.
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Can I encourage us not to refer to American websites for pointers about disability language. They're a bit.. retarded.
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The Topps as uncredited script advisors?