tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post1637627936913630499..comments2024-03-29T17:12:19.648+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Daily Blog Branded Upper-Middle-Class, Pseudo-Left, Imperialists! Who Knew?Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-52353523518607526992021-10-05T09:51:58.271+13:002021-10-05T09:51:58.271+13:00Susie: When I wake up every morning, well not ever...Susie: When I wake up every morning, well not every morning cause it’s usually dark, but when I wake up every morning on the weekend and I open the curtains and I look into my garden and onto the water at Evans Bay, I do wonder whose land that is that I live on now. And I don’t know sometimes what the right way to engage with that is.<br />https://www.brazen.world/podcast/episode-6-julia-whaipooti/John Hurleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-79728664048498929002021-10-01T10:42:02.613+13:002021-10-01T10:42:02.613+13:00"Impartiality is a pompous name for indiffere..."Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance."<br /><br />GK Chesterton.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-20824134508133643742021-09-30T21:11:23.642+13:002021-09-30T21:11:23.642+13:00“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the mo...“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.”<br /><br />G.K. ChestertonDavid Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-44473891893947969462021-09-30T16:37:51.654+13:002021-09-30T16:37:51.654+13:00David you another one who knows absolutely nothing...David you another one who knows absolutely nothing about CRTExcept what you've seen on Fox News probably or read in the usual cynical right-wing bullshitosphere. Have you actually read anything by Kimberlé Crenshaw or Richard Delgardo? Have you read any of the critiques of it by Pyle, or Subotnik Farber and Sherry? Have you read the Marxist criticism of it by Darder and Torres? Of course you bloody haven't, you haven't investigated it much beyond the surface of the right wing blogosphere I guarantee it. I doubt you even bother to watch the interview with Crenshaw that I posted up above. You'll just form an opinion and then believe anybody who supports it. This is a manufactured crisis, a manufactured moral panic created by one journalist and Fox news essentially. And you've fallen for it.<br /><br /><br />To quote you, "Fascinating but frightening that otherwise intelligent people could be attracted to this simplistic way of viewing humanity and the cultivated garden of verbiage designed to give it the illusion of a developed and credible explanation for reality."Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-14983230543471287872021-09-30T10:08:11.468+13:002021-09-30T10:08:11.468+13:00Yes Anonymous, a bigger load of nonsense than CRT ...Yes Anonymous, a bigger load of nonsense than CRT is difficult to imagine, delusional and dangerous.<br />There's a very good book I read recently, Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose, which exposes the whole critical theory shit-show, it's origins and it's various mad manifestations: critical race theory, queer theory, post colonial theory, fat theory and so on. Fascinating but frightening that otherwise intelligent people could be attracted to this simplistic way of viewing humanity and the cultivated garden of verbiage designed to give it the illusion of a developed and credible explanation for reality.<br /><br />Of course it's mana from heaven for the shameless race baiting charlatans but the fact that this nonsense is being incorporated (the queer and race parts at least) into the state indoctrination of our school children is deeply worrying. That it's being used as the justification for far reaching laws and democratic processes is truly terrifying.<br /><br />Not impressed.David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-28917023238907217662021-09-29T15:10:07.819+13:002021-09-29T15:10:07.819+13:00You know what anonymous – the whole fuss about CRT...You know what anonymous – the whole fuss about CRT was started by one right-wing journalist who has admitted he decided to do it because he needed a stick to beat the left with. He deliberately went to Fox News and misinformed them – not that they really need that because they will lie anyway – about CRT because the American right needed a fresh doggy chew toy, -political correctness, the war on Christmas, and taking a knee at football games seemed to have lost their mojo. The idiots always need fresh meat.<br />You haven't got a clue what CRT is about, and like almost all critics from the right, you are showing your ignorance only yours is worse than usual. We seem to have regressed to the satanic panic of the 1980s, or the moral delinquency panic of the 1950s. Do we need another Mazengarb report? You are – to put it politely – uninformed.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-78367234606826107722021-09-29T09:38:14.919+13:002021-09-29T09:38:14.919+13:00Yes CRT is for the wokest of the Woke...it's p...Yes CRT is for the wokest of the Woke...it's proven, everything is indeed racist, whites are all guilty Trump-loving, gun-toting, migrant-hating rednecks and white supremacists. Whites need to now continually apologise for the colour of their skin and continue to pay and pay until we're all equal and poor. <br />CRT apologists now seek to back up their poison with woke Hate Speech legislation that criminalises free thinking, debate and dissent so that we all think one way only...their way. The thought police will be recruiting shortly...from the extreme Left only since they are in the right. (Sorry I know that the word 'right' is now offensive to the Woke...). Their definition of diversity is to ban, deplatform or unfriend anyone they don't agree with, pile hate onto them, then trot out a few token adherents from a minority or two to show that they really really really are tolerant and diverse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-61467762256107774322021-09-28T12:51:52.773+13:002021-09-28T12:51:52.773+13:00Oh God, we still going on about critical race theo...Oh God, we still going on about critical race theory are we?. I know you won't take my word for it David, but one of your right wing heroes Ben Shapiro actually went to Harvard and studied critical race theory. He did an interview with Bill Maher and another guy, where he actually explained what it was. And although it was obvious he didn't approve of it, and although he reverted to type by squeakily talking over anyone else who tried to contradict him as usual, it wasn't a totally unfair summation. Perhaps you should listen to the man before you blag on about it again. Because at the moment you and just about anyone else on this site who comments on it are simply showing their ignorance of it. <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ofjZH80y3g<br /><br />And I know you and your fellows won't take the slightest notice of this, but this comedian gives a better analysis of the moral panic about critical race theory than most pundits – which is a shame<br />. And RoyWood Jr. did do an interview with one of the founders of CRT in which she explains exactly what it is which you would probably do well to watch – with an open mind.<br /><br />Have none of you free speech advocates ever thought that those states in the US that are banning the teaching of critical race theory are censoring free thought? Thought not.<br /><br /><br />https://mediabias.co.nz/about<br /><br />Not that I care about the Herald's political bias but you people never seem to read to the end of the article do you?Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-80548695083766927622021-09-28T08:18:37.083+13:002021-09-28T08:18:37.083+13:00Well yes grey, that is what passes for "think...Well yes grey, that is what passes for "thinking" on the left these days. It's almost like they've run out of injustices and have started, ever more desperately to create new ones out of what is often called first world problems. That particular story was from one of the Herald's overseas affiliates and is clearly grounded in the left's new toy, CRT, critical race theory; the theory that literally everything is racist, a conspiracy to advance the interests of those of a paler hue. Perhaps RCT would be more appropriate - Racial Conspiracy Theory.<br /><br />It's not really a question of the bias of the Herald, that's got nothing to do with it. They have stories and opinions from both sides of the political fence and, hypocritically, are continuing to hammer the story about the murdered woman. She's not even from here.<br /><br />BTW here's a link to the latest NZ media bias analysis. https://mediabias.co.nz/David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-58026355090984000702021-09-27T21:51:05.346+13:002021-09-27T21:51:05.346+13:00David George
There is a flaw in your example of ...David George <br />There is a flaw in your example of the Herald publishing an article on current women's sensitivities. You connect it to thinking on the left. The NZ Herald does not represent the left but can be easily observed to champion the Right.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-41127586467847089382021-09-26T13:28:52.314+13:002021-09-26T13:28:52.314+13:00I can understand the angst, the disillusionment Ch...I can understand the angst, the disillusionment Chris, the left is pretty much a complete madhouse these days.<br />The latest front on the culture war is the "missing white women syndrome".<br />Apparently there is more public interest and reporting when a European woman goes missing or murdered than a coloured woman, according to a lengthy essay in the Herald. That needs to change, you white girls that get abducted, gang raped and murdered will be lucky to make it to the deaths column now. That's what social justice means in 2021.David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-50674506894325356232021-09-26T00:33:35.113+12:002021-09-26T00:33:35.113+12:00Chris you're one of the last of the Mohicans i...Chris you're one of the last of the Mohicans in terms of those on the left who care about working people.<br />This new PMC left is a group that's educated beyond their intelligence. Basking in the dazzling light of their own 'wokeness' they seem not to notice that they're standing there very much naked.<br />The whole WSWS brigade in their "we love Chinese authoritarianism & Chinese imperialism, because we hate America & the West" really shows them up as the mindless Kowtow puppets of Xi Jinping that they are <br /><br />thesorrow&thepitynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-63348118973276978002021-09-24T19:45:28.192+12:002021-09-24T19:45:28.192+12:00Dear Roger Annis.
Are you still ignorant of the ...Dear Roger Annis.<br />Are you still ignorant of the reality, that the millions of humans today could not survive as mere hunters and gatherers without capitalism, i.e. agriculture and saving wealth (seeds) for security reserves, trading opportunities and profitable or hobby investments ?<br />And that the "social ownership of all the means of production (including labour?) would be nothing but slavery under totalitarian state monopoly capitalism, and that comrade Stalin was a physical and mental misery creative administrator of the state capitalism based socialist idea, and that for economic reasons Trotsky could not have been any different from Stalin, only that he was more ambitious in dreaming of immediate world-wide Communism through destructive and murderous revolutions ?Jens Mederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17304734497662325275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-72128716699555098722021-09-24T14:52:21.869+12:002021-09-24T14:52:21.869+12:00The Far-Left prefer being out of power. It enables...The Far-Left prefer being out of power. It enables them to maintain purity without ever having to worry about the messiness of actual governing.DShttps://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-76213720683935655712021-09-24T13:06:37.011+12:002021-09-24T13:06:37.011+12:00Excellent analysis right up until the last few par...<i>Excellent analysis right up until the last few paragraphs, where the writers are presumably instructed by their editors to go and spoil it all by spewing needless (if unintentionally hilarious) invective all over their ideological foes.</i><br /><br />Hmmm... Well I can understand your amusement/bemusement and perhaps even some eye-rolling response, but I can't thinking of the article you wrote the other day, <a href="https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2021/09/hi-viz-vengeance-on-melbournes-streets.html" rel="nofollow">Hi-Viz Vengeance On Melbourne’s Streets</a>, which started off with good analysis and then finished with this:<br /><br /><i>Nor can one help speculating, just a little, that mixed-in with all this working-class fury there might also be a pretty large dose of toxic Aussie masculinity.</i><br /><br />:)<br /><br />He who is without sin.... etc, etc.Tom Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17840988228699338463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-48954472019557642732021-09-24T13:01:40.888+12:002021-09-24T13:01:40.888+12:00Well I can't speak for other Righties but I...Well I can't speak for other Righties but I've known about it at least since watching the famous scene from <i>The Life Of Brian</i> around the People's Judean Front: <i>Splitters! Splitters!</i>.<br /><br />Reading about Trotsky, Stalin and the show trials years later was not as much fun and possibly no better in their explanations.Tom Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17840988228699338463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-58305847957762461612021-09-24T10:50:45.756+12:002021-09-24T10:50:45.756+12:00Considering this factionalism has been going on fo...Considering this factionalism has been going on for at least 50 years, unbeknownst to conservatives who think that the left is a monolithic juggernaut, I don't think this is news. :-)Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-8105965758569697252021-09-24T10:18:47.555+12:002021-09-24T10:18:47.555+12:00Thank you, Chris, for this latest column and also ...Thank you, Chris, for this latest column and also for your previous 'Keep New Zealand nuclear-free: Stay out of AUKUS!' They are very informative for this reader on the other side of the world.<br />I am puzzled when you write in this latest column, "There's a lot to like about the World Socialist Web Site"... You describe well the sectarianism and divisiveness which marks most (all?) of the present-day adherents of the Trotskyist doctrine as well as many other claimants to Marxism. In my view, this divisiveness stems from a narrow and self-centered response to the isolation and persecution, even, which the ideologues of global capitalism impose on the world and on capitalism's most vocal critics. There is also a self-inflicted wound that is important to understand. The doctrine of Trotskyism was born (circa 1928) of a rejection of the lessons of the 1917 Russian Revolution, that is, rejection of the strategy of a 'worker-peasant alliance' which Lenin and the Bolshevik Party employed to end Russia's grisly particpation in World WAr One and overthrow the Tsarist monarchy. This was further compounded by the Trotskyist movement's eventual rejection of the lessons of the successful mixed economy policy (New Economic Policy) which guided the early Soviet Union from 1921 until its premature and violent demise. NEP was ended beginning in 1928 by the new regime in the Soviet Union headed by Stalin. Trotsky was one of the most effective and powerful voices in favour of NEP at its inception. But by the time of his 1937 book The Revolution Betrayed, written as an overall assessment of the 1917 Revolution, NEP receives barely a mention! The rejection of NEP is a big reason why Trotskyist groups and other self-proclaimed Marxists scoff at today's revolutions deemed less-than-perfect--notably in Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua. (Grave doubts are even being cast Cuba's way by these folks.) And it is why they have so much trouble with the idea of defending the Chinese people and government against the economic and military threats of the U.S.-led new cold war. China, is, after all, history's largest experiment in mixed economy. By far. The ultralefts are content to chant 'Revolution, now!' and leave to others the difficult work of understanding the world and figuring out how humanity can transition away from this monstrous capitalist system which threatens to destroy us all.<br />Regards,<br />Roger Annis<br />Vancouver, Canada<br />https://socialistincanada.ca/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06690021395380476883noreply@blogger.com