so a racist got utterly demolished in less than 30 seconds on the New Zealand morning news on Monday and it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen
who knew a white guy could be capable of such an iconic response, he knows what’s up and is having none of that shit, every other white guy take notes tbh
I love that he said Pakeha
Can someone write what its being said in this?
Male co-host: We have had a whole heap of feedback regarding
Te Tai Tokerau MP Kelvin Davis’s proposal to institute a prison run on Māori
values into New Zealand. He’s looking at potentially establishing this prison
up north. It isn’t Labour policy just yet, it’s just an idea of Kelvin Davis’s.
And this has been really really divisive on our Facebook page this morning. (sarcastically)
Here I think we have the single greatest email, the single greatest message we
have ever had on breakfast.
(clears throat deliberately) “’Janice’ says: Good morning. I’m
sick of hearing that Māori need different treatment. If they don’t want to live
in our society, then maybe we should put them all on an island and leave them
to it.”
Male co-host: “Janice. That is LITERALLY what happened! That
is the history of our country. Last I checked, Māori WERE on an island, they
were left to it, and then Pākehā (Māori term for white New Zealanders) turned
up and look how that worked out. But thank you very much for that brilliant
insight. Goodness me. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, they actually-“
Female co-host: “Actually, you can’t even get angry, you
just actually need to laugh and then screw it up and put it under the desk.
Just when you thought-“
Male co-host: (mimicking letter) “’Put them all on an
island, leave them to it.’ Yeah. What a great idea that is Janice.
I really need “What a great idea that is, Janice.” to be a meme filled with those stupid complete cognitive dissonance bigoted statements.
that snorlax .gif reminded me of one of my favorite animals ever, an elephant seal called Homer who went on a months-long rampage of car-humping destruction in a new zealand town
some highlights of homer’s odyssey:
causing tons of property damage by attempting to fuck cars, boat trailers, trees, and trash cans (did i mention that he weighed two tons)
he was apparently particularly attracted to red cars
at one point, the population of Gisborne attempted to contain him by putting barriers on the boat ramp he’d been using to get on land
his response was to wait for a swell to move the barriers, get back on shore, cross the road, and fuck a power box, cutting off the electricity to a local restaurant and the coast guard building (and presumably tasering his own dick in the process)
accidentally offset some of the property-damage costs by bringing in busloads of japanese tourists who were at the time visiting a city a few miles over
(there was one claim that he also squished a person who got too close to him, but i can’t find anything backing this up)
he was later revealed to have been the same elephant seal who had previously terrorized the town of Christchurch, hundreds of miles away
in Christchurch, he was recorded climbing a two-meter wall, breaking into a mall, and humping more cars and trash cans
(this isn’t even the first time something like this has happened, as an elephant seal in Coromandel became a local celebrity in the 80s after coming ashore and trying to fuck cows; Humphrey was later immortalized with a fiberglass statue)
Gisborne’s local radio station created a (now-defunct) website for him called “Homer’s Home,” complete with a forum for people to track his amorous adventures and a page where kids could send him emails of support
We need to get around to realizing that genetic modification isnt contamination, or carcinogenic chemicals, or sludge, or evil godless mutations. They aren’t horrifying and they’re grown natural just like everything else.
But, I can’t help but note the irony in saying, “all citrus fruits are GMO hybrids,” while accusing other people of not knowing what they are talking about, because hybrids are not GMOs. Also, “the potato” isn’t genetically-modified: a handful of patented cultivars of potato are. There are thousands more non-GM cultivars and landraces at the International Potato Center in Peru, for example, some of which are resistant to late blight.
Many people (and I include myself in this category) are critical of certain genetic engineering projects as they relate to agriculture because we are concerned with:
the ecological impacts of things like genetic bottlenecks and genetic drift;
insecticidal resistance and improper use of pest refuges;
an increased dependence on monocultures of a narrow range of cereal crops;
the global depletion of agricultural diversity, and loss of sustainable indigenous food sources;
the increased cost of GM seed, and intellectual property/licensing costs for said seed driving the consolidation of smallholder farms into corporate hands;
software-like ‘user agreements’ with seed preventing transparent, peer-reviewed science from happening in evaluating these crops;
the lack of accessibility of genetic engineering techniques and equipment;
the ownership of most of the world’s seed supply between 3-10 multinationals
and, the moral implications of patenting biological organisms.
I know there are some weird and terrible anti-vaccer types drawn to the anti-GMO brigade, but fighting misinformation with more misinformation isn’t helpful. There are a huge number of political, ecological, and legal concerns to be sussed out in this relatively-new field of science, and it’s not helping the debate to add to it without understanding some of the basic concepts being debated.
when I was in high school (2011 or thereabouts), I was part of a forum for fans of a particular webcomic (coughcough @discordcomics coughcough). because the webcomic was about queer people, almost everyone in the forum was some kind of queer. I learned like 90% of my queer politics through being a member and interacting with trans folks and ace folks and nonbinary folks and what have you all the time.
we had a section for cool queer news stories, and one day someone posted a link to a blog. it was written by a lesbian in Syria, and the post that was shared was her recounting how the night before, the secret police had come to take her away for being a lesbian, but her father had identified each of the men by name (like, “Don’t I know you from —?” and “Isn’t your father so-and-so?”), shaming them into leaving her alone. it was a heartwarming story, a really important bright spot for us queer folks (a Muslim dad! in Syria! standing up for his lesbian daughter!), and so when she was apparently kidnapped in broad daylight by armed men, the internet (including us!) freaked out and tried to search for her.
now, according to him, he was trying to uplift the voices of Muslims (particularly Muslim women) who he’d met while studying. people were spreading misinformation about the Middle East and Muslims on the internet, and he wasn’t being listened to as a straight white man, and so he thought his opinions might be given more weight if they came from a Muslim lesbian woman.
the problem is, even if what he said was 100% accurate–even if he had so deeply studied the plight of women, particularly lesbians, in Syria, that no actual Syrian Muslim lesbian would disagree with him–the problem is that he’s not a Syrian Muslim lesbian. he’s a white guy from Georgia. he could do nothing but parrot talking points by actual queer Syrians all day and that would never give him the experience or knowledge to be able to speak for them.
the problem isn’t that the deleted blogs promoted ideas from BLM and other social justice groups. lots of people can do that, even if they’re not black or not American. even I can do that. but one thing I can’t do, as a white woman, is to pretend that I am black–to steal photos of real black people to use as my profile pics, to use AAVE exclusively, to talk about how “our” people are oppressed and hurt by white supremacy–even if it’s to promote goals that I agree with. that’s rachel dolezal levels of fuckery. or, more accurately, this is hivliving levels of fuckery.
imagine this wasn’t the IRA. imagine it was a bunch of white kids from spokane, or any one of the police officers who blame BLM for self-inflicted wounds and vandalism, or cole fucking sprouse. would we still be saying “but they made good points”? would we still be defending them as martyrs to tumblr’s censorship? would we claim them as legitimate social justice activists, instead of frauds who duped innocent people into believing they were members of marginalized groups?
“would we still be saying “but they made good points”? would we still be defending them as martyrs to tumblr’s censorship? would we claim them as legitimate social justice activists, instead of frauds who duped innocent people into believing they were members of marginalized groups?“
Wait… people are actually doing this? They do know why Russians have bots doing this stuff, right? This isn’t like… people trying to promote social justice causes for their own sake. This has a way more cynical political purpose.
I mean, I knew a lot of people on Tumblr were a bit thick in the head, but… Damn.
To be fair, the U.S. has a long and storied history of accusing genuine leftists (particularly black activists, like the Black Panthers) of being Russian shills and silencing them on that basis. It is completely understandable that leftists would assume that this is more of the same.
Except that this is more like COINTELPRO: a government infiltrating an organization and using that position in the organization to spread chaos and divide ranks. I cannot believe that people are ignoring that the tactics the IRA has been using are exactly like those used by the FBI, except that it’s the Russian government and not the American one.
I’m not even surprised that this has been the response by some people, I know waaaaaay too many lefties who still think RT is a brave news network willing to fight for what’s right.
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