Posts by Lilith __
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Racial profiling is evil. I don't think there's ever a context that makes it not evil.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Katharine Moody,
How long should we wait before making things up??
The government has started collecting the data, and now require a NZ IRD number for people buying property.
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To me, this methodology is classic Garbage In-Garbage Out. So many unsupported assumptions in data collection cannot lead to a meaningful conclusion.
And it’s racist, to boot. Non-resident speculators are the problem, if there is a problem. Nothing to do with anybody’s surname. Why be pointlessly divisive and insulting?
We don’t yet have the data on how many non-resident speculators are buying property in NZ: maybe we could wait for the figures. And meanwhile think about ways of reducing their ability to speculate on non-productive assets like housing.
Meanwhile, lobby the government to introduce a meaningful CGT and a WOF for rental houses. There’s so much to be done to improve the housing of NZers.
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Can't believe Labour would do this. Were they not unpopular enough already?
Property speculation plays a part in driving up prices, and it's reasonable to suppose that non-resident speculators are part of that.
Nothing in that equation has anything to do with what your fucking surname is.
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Speaker: Abortion: morality and health, in reply to Danielle,
Wow. Thank you.
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See, what makes me uncomfortable is how "right to life" is used to deny women autonomy over their own bodies and lives, but not used to help children have a chance at a decent life. I'm not saying we shouldn't think harder about late-term abortions, but just to keep that in perspective.
If every child could have a healthy home and the opportunity to fulfil her/his potential, then maybe we could fuss over late-term abortion for non-medical reasons (if indeed this actually ever happens). But that would be a society that supported and cherished women and children and the job of child-rearing. A long way from what we have.
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Also - we need to acknowledge the viability of very premature babies is an index of wealth and privilege. The majority of the world can't provide intensive care for neonates. Or even protect full-term healthy babies from dying of preventable diseases, hunger and thirst.
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Can I state the obvious by saying if a fetus is extracted alive, then it's called birth...?
And I'm really over the hypothetical hand-wringing. Women die from illegal abortions. Thousands of actual born children go without adequate food, clothing and housing. As a society, we should be worrying about that.
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For those interested in knowing more about adoption, the system is very different now. Open adoption, where the birth mother/parents choose the adoptive family and remain in contact with them, is normal. Link .