Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Emma Hart,
Ignorance is bliss
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Muse: NZIFF Rant: A Diva's Place Is On…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
That's brilliant. Absolutely genius.
Reckon. I want to go there already.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Emma Hart,
at some point you can expect to listen to my "How can people drink nutrasweet when it tastes like electrical tape?" rant
And someone will ask how you know what that tastes like..
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Field Theory: All Blacks v South Africa…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
or in a tackle (design feature)
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OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to Sacha,
Barry Colman
quoted thus in another TVNZ story (text).
But Barry Colman, publisher of the National Business Review and number 45 on the Rich List, denied the wealth gap was widening on TV ONE's Close Up tonight.
"The gap between rich and poor is one of the most damaging myths we have in New Zealand," he said.
He added companies had suffered the effects of the recession as well, and that New Zealand's welfare system meant "the people who are poor in New Zealand today are enormously better off than the people who were poor 50 years ago."
Colman said the fact that the average worth of the Rich Listers went up 20% was not a reflection on how the businesses were doing as a whole and he called for a decrease in the minimum wage, claiming it would increase employment.
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Rory MacKinnon discusses revisionist responses to Norway's political violence.
The right’s dangerous new narrative tries to have it both ways: Breivik was a crazed man operating in a cultural vacuum — unlike Islamic extremists, who feed off a network of incendiary rhetoric and veiled threats by public figures which must be countered. Yet at the same time Breivik’s calculated acts are a warning, an appeal to hear Phillips’ “decent people who are boiling with rage at being disenfranchised by an entire political class which seems determined to destroy their civilisation.”
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Rich listers' wealth up 20% in the last year while the poor languish. Yet watch wanker Barry Colman try to deny the numbers in this 7 min CloseUp clip alongside Mangere budget advisor Darryl Evans.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Arbiters of Good Taste
how do you get to be one of those?
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I'd note that the Human Rights Act is not the be-all and end-all in this matter either, but it does encompass grounds other than ethnicity.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to DCBCauchi,
My apology for using the word "you" when I should have said "people".
It was intended as a general observation that individualists are less likely to support collective civic processes that restrain personal action. Others may disagree with the methods but support the goal.
However, I'm sure I didn't say anything at all about you personally in this statement:
When there is sustained 'othering' of groups of fellow humans, it tends to lead to us and our institutions acting to disadvantage members of that group, causing harm to us as well as them.