Racism

Winston Peters is blustering about Susan Devoy’s comments. As usual he is dissembling and obfuscating.

He knows full well what he is doing in race-baiting.

Unfortunately there is precious little anyone can do about it, except mock the senile old fool.

NZ First leader Winston Peters has accused Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy of “talking nonsense” about his “Super City of Sin” speech on the growing Chinese influence in Auckland.

Dame Susan yesterday said she would be forced to get involved if Mr Peters continued his “tirade” against the Chinese community.  Read more »

Winston Peters

Winston Peters plays the race card, all the time, it is about time the cranky old racist was held to account.

Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy says she is still formulating her views on racism and has NZ First leader Winston Peters in her sights.

After almost three months since her appointment as commissioner, Dame Susan said she was still “getting a good grasp” on racism and revealed she now deemed controversial cartoons published in South Island papers recently as racist despite previously saying they were not.

She told TVNZ’s Q+A programme this morning that she was “starting to formulate my ideas” about racism and said that she would be forced to get involved if Mr Peters continued his “tirade” against the Chinese community.

Last month Dame Susan declined to comment on Mr Peters’ “Super City of Sin” speech, in which he accused parts of the Chinese community in Auckland of importing corruption and being heavily involved in the sex industry and student cheating rings.  Read more »

In the light of the so-called “racist cartoons” about breakfast in schools.

Check these snippets out from Bro’town…and tell me again why the cartoonist should have been vilified.

On top of that the taxpayer coughed substantial coin to make these. Are they able to get away with it because they have had the liberal elite bludgers all lined up as voice actors?

Pressures of modern parenting:

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If a cartoon depicting Maori trotting off for free food in schools was racist, then is this front page racist?

A reader asks:

The Weekend Sun is in letterboxes Friday in Tauranga.

Yesterday’s cover is a nice photo of two girls at Merivale school with their bowls and the headline “Breakfast is best”  Read more »

The left wing media and their flunkies in the blogosphere are beating up a storm over some hard hitting cartoons.

But are they offensive? Probably…to the grievance mode liberal elites, but not to many.

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Yesterday the Marlborough Express ran a cartoon, there are some who think it is racist.

Hilary Barry thinks it is.

So does Maiki Sherman.

Ben Hurley, who likes to hurl filthy jokes around thinks it is racist too.

What do readers think?  Read more »

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It is often said that Maori have learned in the past 30 years or so an entitlement and a grievance mentality, that is now affecting them far more negatively that the last 150 years of “occupation”.

Witness Aroha Hathaway. Radio and TV personality…she is no poor bush Maori, she is a Ponsonby media snob with a TV and radio job….and this is her attitude.

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Take your pick.

What has been the most hilarious reaction to the IPCA Operation 8 report?

How about Tame Iti planning to seek compensation?

Or another one of the guilty four seeking separate indigenous reservations?

Parihaka’s Emily Bailey, her partner Urs Signer, Tame Iti and Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara were found guilty of firearms charges in March last year following Operation Eight, the Urewera raids in 2007.

“If countries like Canada and the United States can cope with separate indigenous reservations and entire states with separate laws inside one country, then why can’t we?” she said.  Read more »

A bunch of nasty racist thugs are targeting asians in Auckland.

A white supremacist Christchurch group is planning to distribute anti-Chinese flyers around Auckland, a city council ethnic panel member says.

Chinese woman Bevan Chuang said she had received information that the Right Wing Resistance was planning to distribute leaflets in Titirangi, Manurewa and Onehunga attacking Chinese immigration.

“Safety is the most important thing, so please don’t confront the white power people with your bare hands,” Miss Chuang said in an email circulated to leading members of Auckland’s Chinese.

The Hong Kong-born panel member has also alerted the police Asian liaison officer to the matter.

Two years ago, the same group distributed “Stop the Asian Invasion” flyers in areas with high Asian population, such as Howick, Northcote and Pakuranga, sparking police concerns that the action would lead to racially motivated violence.

The far-right group also tried then to recruit non-Asian immigrants to join its campaign against the Chinese.

Miss Chuang said she had been receiving “crazy neo-Nazi posts” on her Facebook page, attacking her ethnicity.

This will be Kyle Chapman’s bunch of skinhead pansies.

Kyle Chapman and his bunch of pansy mates

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Excuse me for taking delight at NZ First tying themselves into racism knots over this one

via NZ Herald

New Zealand First says it will alter a sign promoting a fundraising stall after complaints its offer of a “chance to unseat a coconut” had racist undertones.

The sign has appeared at NZ First’s coconut shy at the annual Kumeu show for a number of years.

However, hard on the heels of NZ First MP Richard Prosser’s anti Muslim outburst in Investigate magazine, the sign at the coconut shy at last weekend’s show prompted a number of visitors to send photographs to the Herald.

That is the problem if you let a little bit of public opinion change your direction.  Public opinions come from a number of angles over time, so eventually you find yourself in a position where you can’t please anyone.   Read more »