Posts by Neil Morrison
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Neil, I could post the research that backs up my position, but I suspect even that wouldn't help you pull your head back out of your arse.
I take it that wasn't meant as an invitation to debate the relative merits of my arse vs. your brain but rather some sort of implication that my views aren't based on any knowledge of or reflection on or action in race relations in NZ. You might yet again have been at the mercy of projection.
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...any awareness we have of a cultural identity is weak, fragile, superficial etc etc.
perhaps you could go through and change all those "we"'s to "I"s.
I’m not saying that individual police are any more given to racism than any of the rest of us but, given many of the unconscious assumptions out there about “race” and crime, given institutionalised normative values, given the immense authority of the police as and agent of the state, that the collective action of the Police as an entity can be racist.
Or it might not, it may be that you are projecting your own unconscious prejudice. A just as valid argument as the one you are making.
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Yes, a damn good move, which along with the change to the definition of election advertising, cuts the ground underneath those arguing against it.
It may do but at the same time it justifies those doing the arguing. Presumably those crtical of the bill were under no obligation to keep quite and just hope things might improve.
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...there needs to still be something wrong with it for National to continue to oppose it.
but that wouldn't be politics
Labour fumbled the ball and National are doing a George Gregan.
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He has spent $50k campaigning against the EFB
the joys of Post-Modern politics.
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I wonder if the Electoral Finance Bill is the political right's GE issue
or, more topically, police raids. If the person putting Hyperbole in NZ's water supply would just change to Valium. Or e, either way.
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The atrocities that have occurred in the midst of our communities under the name of terrorism have brought out the worse of prejudice and fear and political name-calling that this House has witnessed for some time.
Tariana displaying her fine sense of irony.
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I know that in theory the decision to dress as terrorists was supposed to be some brilliant witty comment...
they are clearly unfamiliar with Post-Moderism and the role of the Reader in constructing meaning.
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I don't get why some people, with anything to do with the police, jump first to the conspiracy theory.
I don't get it either. Some things being said about the Police are just vile. It's moved well beyond any legitimate holding them to account, it's become a vicious attack by self-proclaimed leftists and activists who like to spend their time thinking up things to be outraged about.
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I don't generally read much into what protestors where, but - following on from danyl above - this is funny -
He said the masks were aimed at making members of the public understand what residents of Ruatoki went through during the police raids.
"You ask people, would you be angry if someone in a mask turned up at your place, woke you up, pointed guns at your children and your wife. Would you be entitled to be a little bit angry?"
He said wearing masks was part of the "theatre of education" but it didn't always work.
"People just feel further intimidated and less sympathetic and that's a risk one takes," Mr Kruger said.