Posts by simon g
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to SHG,
Don't be so infantile.
As I've repeatedly said on here, Rob/Phil & co have handled the whole matter very poorly, and they deserve the criticism they've been getting for that.
What you're (unsubtly) doing is taking cheap shots for views they don't hold and haven't expressed. As I'm sure you know.
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Polity: A week on from the housing controversy, in reply to Kumara Republic,
"That's not the issue!", episode 347, by yet another columnist.
So many people feel this need to tell everybody else what they should be talking about, rather than listen to what they are talking about. Which is kind of annoying if it's just the barbecue bore, but when it's a journalist ... it's even worse.
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to DPF,
Not worried, just gleeful. Keep up the entertainment
By posting racist cartoons? Oh sorry, that's just your Kiwiblog ...
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As we're still debating what was said and meant, it's useful to quote Phil Twyford's original tweet (which he and Rob stand by):
https://twitter.com/PhilTwyford/status/619616896460062720
Chinese NZers 9% Akl popn. People of Chinese descent bought 39.5% of houses sold by major Akl real estate firm. This is foreign money.
Chinese descent = foreign. No ambiguity there at all. No inferring needed.
Whatever was intended, only Phil can take responsibility for this. Don't blame other people for reading his own words.
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I think you may have misjudged your audience here.
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Barfoot & Thompson have fired the leaker.
I really hope their statement said "As real estate agents, we pride ourselves on the highest standards of integrity at all times." That would be awesome.
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The Herald seems to be churning out columns by the hour. Four or five new ones today?
The columns themselves might say different things, but the comments underneath don't.
(I liked Raybon Kan's piece, although (because?) it clearly went over lots of heads).
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Steve Barnes,
The National Party’s mouthpieces would find a way for it to look bad, as they have this time.
And the rest of us would have ignored them, as we do every day.
Labour’s achievement was to alienate a great many more, non-mouthpieces all.
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Trotter's piece is a classic example of projecting instead of observing. His message, in short: "I want this issue to be discussed differently. So I've simply decided that it has been. That makes life easier for me, which is the main thing."
Yes, Andrew Little could have made a visionary speech about the history and future of NZ's relationship with China, addressing some of those matters arising. But he didn't.
Presumably because it wouldn't have got half the coverage or probably, votes.
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I agree with Danielle/Stephen, and furthermore, I think the whole discussion highlights an "empathy gap", for want of a better description.
For those who (in good faith, let's assume) want to explain away racism as secondary or a distraction ("that's not the issue"), it is enough simply to assert our own perspective ("I'm definitely not racist, therefore this isn't either").
For others, it's a wearying, familiar feeling of "here we go again". And again, and again, and again. Not so much a shock, as a reminder.