Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: The crybaby philosopher, in reply to william blake,
but the liberals generally don’t seem to see themselves as outright racists. The speech may well backfire on their polling and on the Team Key by association.
Agreed. The people devoutly defending Whyte in the internet public square at the moment aren’t mainstream centre-right. His own Epsom candidate has seemed somewhat ambivalent too.
Whyte has fired up the base, no doubt about that. But being an Act member is probably like being part of a crowd where everyone watches Netflix via a VPN -- you start to assume it's normal when it actually isn't.
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Hard News: The crybaby philosopher, in reply to Mikaere Curtis,
Incorrect. Maori already had property rights that had nothing to do with tauiwi law. Even if we take Whyte’s assertion that property rights were only extant on colonisation by Europeans, it is still wrong because aboriginal title existed regardless of Te Tiriti.
Damn right. I'm actually surprised that no one else -- me included -- has picked up on that claim.
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Hard News: The crybaby philosopher, in reply to Deborah,
What strikes me about his arguments in political philosophy is that they are largely context free ie. he sees only very minimal premises, and as a result of that a rather threadbare conclusion.
Yes. He's not alone in that -- there are some very agitated libertarians on the local internet clinging to the same thread.
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Finally got around to uploading this: a short clip of Jarvis Skyping in to the Civic ....
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And now Mr Whyte is demanding that Susan Devoy resign for daring to disagree with him.
I think we can now actually call this a public meltdown.
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Hard News: The crybaby philosopher, in reply to Michael Meyers,
Mr Whyte also fails to understand the meaning of privilege in his own speech. He says that Maori have legal privilege but this is privilege that has been given by those in power. Any other examples of privilege he talks about seem to be privilege taken by those in power. Yet he sees no difference.
That is a very good point.
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Hard News: The crybaby philosopher, in reply to MxDEJ,
but surely the better way to oppose him is to accept his challenge to be civilised, rather than being a dick about it?
I’m characterising Whyte’s actual behaviour and I don’t see why he gets a free pass from being mocked for that. He is the leader of a political party and I'm really not sure if he's well-suited to the job. You will of course note that I and others have also criticised his arguments.
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On-demand ...
And the extra interview with David Blyth, which is (inevitably) actually better than what actually went to air.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Why anyone does…, in reply to bob daktari,
I’m on the meh on diplo’s remix, solid as it is – expected way too much perhaps…. all a little underwhelming, which i guess is the point but I wanted madness
Yeah, but imo madness would've been obvious. I like that it's tuneful.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Why anyone does…, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Last night my Twitter feed was full grainy pics of a giant beardy face hovering over the Civic audience.
I have a short video I'll upload when I have a moment.