Posts by mark taslov
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Hard News: Campaign 2017: Buy a…, in reply to dave stewart,
I’m amused (?) that the legs this story has highlight a lack of public confidence in both the DIA and the SIS; the entire narrative based the assumption that our immigration and intelligence organisations are hopelessly incompetent*, more incompetent than the spy who didn't think to adequately cover his tracks..
*since 1999
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Hard News: Campaign 2017: Buy a…, in reply to simon g,
I don’t think the Financial Times is controlled by the NZ-LabourBot, but never mind.
"Newsroom has worked with the Financial Times in Hong Kong to investigate Yang’s background."
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Hard News: Campaign 2017: Buy a…, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
Are you implying guilt by association with China and suggesting this is purely a racist smear?
The left smearing Chinese people based on poor information? Not out of the question. One of the CCP’s 80+ million members, taught at a military academy followed by a languages university? Holding a non-combatant military rank? None of these things are particularly unusual.
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Hard News: Campaign 2017: Buy a…, in reply to simon g,
The underlying problem is that, to be bunt, New Zealanders don’t know shit about China.
pretty much.
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Hard News: Where are all the polls at?, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Especially once you start breaking down the figures between 1st-generationers, and 1.5ers and 2nd-generationers.
I couldn’t find reference to this in the article, and a cursory scan of the research (which was – to be fair – dealing with an evenly split sample of Koreans/Chinese, rather than the Chinese vote specifically) didn’t reveal much in terms of generational issues, but I’m inclined to agree with you that therein lie major differences. Contrary to Steven Young's quote in Keith’s piece:
Labour’s philosophy has more appeal to the mainland Chinese.”
Labour’s more socialist platform is relatively foreign compared to National’s/CCP’s low tax, survival of the fittest philosophy – to first generation mainland Chinese.
Having said that Huo could start by looking at the messaging of his own party for answers, perhaps.
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That's incredibly sad news, one of my favourite New Zealand musicians.
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Speaker: Low-quality language on immigration, in reply to Farmer Green,
But you weren’t saying that an anti-immigration bias is necessarily racist, I thought.
In theory, I guess, anti-immigration bias isn’t always definitionally racist but in practice the exceptions are rarer than the kakapo.
I can’t disagree with much in that article.
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Speaker: Low-quality language on immigration, in reply to Farmer Green,
“some of my best friends are __ they don’t (AFAIK) experience __ so it’s not a problem”
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Speaker: Low-quality language on immigration, in reply to Farmer Green,
Xenophobia might be closer to the mark ; perhaps .
Race doesn’t seem to come into it ; no target racial group . . . no particular racial group is the perpetrator.Thanks for adequately illustrating how entrenched the racism and apoligism is FG. Enough were paying attention to the ‘Chinese-sounding names’ campaign to know which group was targeted. Quelle surprise, it was one of the same groups that was specifically targeted by our Government through the first half of the 20th C and then again - post apology - in the 21st century when the Labour Government rushed through legislation to make it harder for Chinese to gain entry.
Louisa Wall’s dog whistle by contrast was geared more towards students from the sub-continent: those exploited by agencies for immigration under tenuous pretense.
As pointed out over the page, “Asiatics”, “Asians”. have long been the target of New Zealand policy and as any historical reading will reveal, this racism has been a feature of our culture since the gold-rush.
Racism need not be perpetrated by a single demographic, racism is not limited to a particular group, but if you’ve been living in New Zealand for any stretch and missed the anti-Asian bent of our largely (but non-exclusively) caucasian population then all I can assume is that you’ve not been paying close enough attention.
And why would you need to?
As long as it’s a “successful election strategy” any minority is fair game right?