Posts by mark taslov
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Hard News: Harkanwal Singh: What really…, in reply to mark taslov,
“If anyone felt that it was [racist], then of course we would apologise for that. But that was not our intent.”
As an update to the state of race relations under the current "if anyone felt that it was racist" Labour led Government, my wife was given the "Chinese eyes" today at work by a migrant worker from Tuvalu.
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I was astonished this thread ended up here and was reluctant to address at the time it but as no one has:
Dear White People Please Stop Pretending Reverse Racism is Real
"Simply put, Morgan said reverse racism doesn’t exist and a person who claims otherwise is “outing themselves as someone who has little to no experience or knowledge of what racism is.
Racism is based on a couple of things—historical, systemic oppression and power, Morgan explained. And as far as history goes, white people have never been persecuted for the colour of their skin—so there’s no point comparing their experiences to those of black, brown, and Indigenous folks.
“It’s slavery, colonialism, theft all kinds of violations on systemic proportions… versus feelings being hurt."
Note; I’m not suggesting that a crime wasn’t committed – simply that as part of the Pākehā hegemony, what was experienced wasn’t racism as much as it was a backlash for being a colonial settler. Which is not to dispute – as Toi later pointed out on the show – that Māori can be racist – but to highlight that as a Pākehā, calling that racism, is to ignore the wider historical, systemic and power dynamics.
"But Morgan said even if all people of colour straight up said they hate white people, it wouldn’t affect a white person’s ability to get a job, an education, or increase the odds that they’d get carded or charged for a crime. “If all white people had that view [of black people], that would have a very dramatic life impact on the material reality of all those people."
Something MXR Dentith left here a few years back:
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Capture: Very Vintage, in reply to mark taslov,
something kinda vintage but more summery
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In 2010, of course, Public Address readers bypassed the news and opted for a neologism – the great ungendered insult that was “twatcock”.
So yeah, as I highlighted earlier last year after holding my tongue on the issue for a very.long.time, this is a dyadist neologism. It is, as you say, ungendered, but beyond contemporary cissexist narratives: all genitals are ungendered. It is however not unsexed. It is intersexed, it unequivocally describes the genital configuration of people like Sophia Young who was, as the article states, bullied mercilessly. This genital configuration – which affects anywhere between 1-500 to 1-80,000 human beings – was fashioned specifically as an insult, as a slur as it were.
Coercive and abusive normalisation of intersex people’s genitals is a particularly brutal manifestation of the gender binary and it is this mutilation (instigated here by the Europeans) which helps to erase the reality of intersex people – the reality of this type of genital configuration here being similarly erased by this slur which we’ve collectively coined.
This occurs in the same way that many abnormalities, disorders etc are fashioned as insults and latterly collated in ableist language lists.
which I’m afraid, isn’t great, but is something we’re familiar with. A reference.
ETA:
This type of genital obsession is likewise evident with the discussion and enthusiasm for pussy hats in my top link – doesn’t make it right.http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455377/pussyhats-racist-transphobic-feminists-say
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Rena
Just realised that’s probably not the Māori ‘rena’ given the ship was Greek owned and registered in Liberia.
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Great words and superb results! I have a query Russell, noting that there are technically two Māori words in the top 10 this year, I’m wondering whether this is a first or what the precedent is for Māori words making the shortlist in years past. I’m struggling to easily find the pages though I did stumble on Rena in 2011. I’d certainly be interested in more data if you might have a list of the lists somewhere to answer that conveniently. If not, aua atu rā.
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ᶜᵃᵗ ᵒᶰ ᵃ ˢʷᶦᶰᵍᶦᶰᵍ ᵖᶫᵃᶰᵏ ᵒᶠ ʷᵒᵒᵈ ᵃᵗᵗᵃᶜʰᵉᵈ ᵇʸ ᵗʷᵒ ᶫᵉᶰᵍᵗʰˢ ᵒᶠ ʳᵒᵖᵉ ᵗᵒ ᵃ ᵗʳᵉᵉ ᵇʳᵃᶰᶜʰ
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Damn there goes Jacindagate!
Contrarily…again one might point out the precedent there. A recent WaPo article drawing on research published in May, explored this trend:
When their male colleagues were introduced at conferences, they were usually called “Doctor.” But the men introduced them and other female doctors by their first names.
Looking back over previous -gate iterations, one notices that although few incorporate peoples’ names, male-gates tend more to taking the surname e.g.Sachsgate, Petrikgate, Lochtegate, Moggigate, Rathergate, Dasukigate, Erdogate, Khangate, Weinergate, whereas female-gates favour first names e.g. Gloriagate, Betsygate, Camillagate, Irisgate, Gulargate, Penelopegate. As expected there are exceptions to this such as Muldergate, Lleytgate, sometimes for obvious reasons as was the case with Billygate. One notable outlier is Choi Soon-sil gate which incorporated her full name.
That’s enough to work with.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Ian Pattison,
Given the neologism is such a blatant derivative of a globally recognised precedent, I’d let it be.
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Twitter presidency
the resistanceAlmost every night at the given hour his edicts appear on the timelines. When they do the regulars step up to deliver their barrage of heckles, rebuttals, memes, flaming hot takes, sycophancy, retweets, comment retweets, b l o c k s, mutes and threads to, for and against the resistance.
Almost every night I observe one local step up to launch vitriol all the way across the Pacific onto the combover’s Johnston & Murphys – it takes dedication that, I wonder if it’s even therapeutic.
