tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post5874356476742576189..comments2024-03-29T00:44:42.046+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Fade To White.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-48101560299723271512019-08-28T15:40:17.372+12:002019-08-28T15:40:17.372+12:00Mai Chen - "We have to know our history. If y...Mai Chen - "We have to know our history. If you don't know your history you are bound to repeat it. My understanding is that one of Cook's men just saw a Maori and shot him" <br /><br />Yes Mai we need to understand our history because there is a movement to spit and polish Maori culture when in fact we saw them in action in the Chathams. They ritually slaughtered about 300 Moriori, separated men , women and children, forbade them to speak their own dialect. Etc. Whatever was wrong with our culture, theirs was decidedly substandard.<br />https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/awkward-conversations/story/2018709852/awkward-conversations-about-race-and-identity-with-dr-wayne-ngata-and-mai-chenJohn Hurleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-75784897050285383802019-08-27T23:59:07.463+12:002019-08-27T23:59:07.463+12:00Chris,Isn't it a human right for a people to r...Chris,Isn't it a human right for a people to remain an ethnic nation if they so choose (or change at a pace of their choosing)? And isn't it their right to vote for a populist? <br />https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/397572/new-race-relations-commissioner-meng-foon-wants-to-target-hate-speech-phobias-and-ismsJohn Hurleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-24465636721938001272019-08-23T16:53:23.466+12:002019-08-23T16:53:23.466+12:00A step in the right direction would be to give 16 ...A step in the right direction would be to give 16 year olds the vote (Scotland has recently done this) & have civics studies at High Schools (which we had in the late '60s/early '70s).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-60648669926206661332019-08-23T16:22:43.797+12:002019-08-23T16:22:43.797+12:00I'm afraid you are right. I loved democracy an...I'm afraid you are right. I loved democracy and worked and wrote a little about it in my modest way. I won't be seeing any requiem for a red dawn realised here.peteswriteplacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04474922953916383101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-3091998731726932272019-08-23T14:38:24.381+12:002019-08-23T14:38:24.381+12:00I was always interested in politics, but since my ...I was always interested in politics, but since my partner bought me this nice little mac my knowledge of world and local affairs has exploded. It's for sure that most people use the net for social chat and entertainment , but it is a fantastic tool for whatever purpose one puts it to.<br /> Newspapers have lost their purpose. The news is old by the time they can be read. The net doesn't pay journalists very well so it is a problem for society to access true news when the news coverage is paid for by people with an interest in having everyone think a certain way.<br /> Just as well we have Chris Trotter.<br />D J SDavid Stonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-85541311286538225382019-08-23T13:11:37.108+12:002019-08-23T13:11:37.108+12:00I've been reading James Ball's book – &quo...I've been reading James Ball's book – "Post Truth, how Bullshit Conquered the World". Apparently the biggest shaper of news is Facebook, because that's where most people get their news from these days. And if Facebook make a minor change to their algorithms it has repercussions in newsrooms all over the world. Because they have to adapt to what Facebook wants so they can get enough clicks to get enough advertisers to make enough money to survive. It's also where most fake news comes from and gets spread around.<br />And as for people being deplatformed that's one aspect of capitalism I thoroughly agree with. You should not be able to force an organisation to use its resources to publish something that will cause it to lose money. It's not as if the barriers to entry on the Internet are particularly high. Only your government owes you freedom of speech. If you want to be a Nazi, or slag off migrants or women – start your own damned website. It's not rocket surgery. And given that in any large enough group of people there are bound to be some eejits, you are bound to get an audience. Because the world is a large group of people.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.com