Tag: Racism
When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar.
Since *that* election I have read myriad reasons why it played out the way it did
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When are numbers racist?
By Morgan Godfery Some politicians seem to think that “data” exists in a privileged realm somewhere above politics and power relations. Data, according to Phil Twyford and others, enjoys the authority of objectivity.
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Orewa 3: The Orewa-ing
On Saturday morning I was rung by a friend who is a huge political nerd. He is also right wing. He was excited.
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American Political Batshit: With malice towards none
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.”
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Letter to White America
Dear White America For better or for worse, your country is the leader of the Western world.
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And Islamophobia was never a problem ever again
The Sykes-Picot agreement is a thing. And it’s a thing that may be more responsible for current global issues than we realise.
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The sisterhood of the racist travelling jacket
By Walter Plinge This week Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei played the race card, accusing Corrections Minister Anne Tolley of a thinly veiled racist attack against her for mentioning the cost of her designer jacket.
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Shaming: it’s a bit crap for everyone
It’s no surprise to anyone that Twitter and Facebook are filled with vile, racist, homophobic, bigoted awfulness. Because humanity is filled with vile, racist, homophobic bigots.
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Been spending most my life living in a bigot’s paradox
There’s that old cliche, where the racist old person starts talking. And they’re usually old. When you get to that old stage you find that the racism permeates both genders
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