Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to andin,
philosophy
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to Farmer Green,
That was not my point. Most mass murderers use bombs.
However please do not underestimate the symbolic value of outlawing *all* the weapons used only a week ago. You and I are not really the main audience for that response. Or this conversation in general.
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to simon g,
seeing Americans online trying to swamp Twitter threads by claiming “our gun rights”, forgetting to pretend they’re totes Kiwi
The NRA can buy a campaign here on short notice, just not very well it seems.
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to Dennis Frank,
Superb effort. Seeing Americans online just gobsmacked at how fast we have been able to change our gun laws.
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to simon g,
If the media want to hear from Farrar, Brash, Slater and their ilk, then invite them on to be interviewed and challenged for what they do, not as wise counsel to be respectfully consulted.
That requires a fundamental culture change across all our media organisations to make their behaviour match their profession’s supposed standards.
If managers, producers and editors continue to refuse to do that then I guess the public’s representatives will have to to restructure the rules their influential industry works under.
Stronger media regulation should come out of this disaster or we will have missed an opportunity for change where it matters. For instance, oversight and enforcement could sit with a new Communications Commissioner as another officer of Parliament (like the Privacy, Environment and Human Rights ones) – rather than the current indulgent weaklings like the Press Council and BSA. The ‘market’ has not served us well.
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to Simon Armstrong,
shutting them down
Nobody is entitled to a megaphone. Society negotiates access.
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to Dennis Frank,
a future for your (ethnic) children
White, always white.
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Mental Health Foundation sets things straight.
"Shooting people is not a symptom of mental illness. White supremacy is not a mental illness," it said in a statement.
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While it understood there was comfort in believing the shooter was an outlier, or "different to us", the foundation statement added it was not something to hide behind during the healing process."We're using 'mentally ill' as a short-hand for 'violent' and 'threatening' and 'a risk to the community'. This is deeply troubling."
The foundation said mental illness shouldn't be a scapegoat because it would mean letting New Zealand off the hook from reckoning with racism, white supremacy and anti-immigrant sentiments.
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via twitter
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to Farmer Green,
*Plausible* threat. Coming from a person/group with access to power and weapons.
