Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Just to note: I don't think Labour can blame the Herald for the framing of the story.
No they fucking can't -- if the shocked pearl-clutching I've seen from certain quarters over The Herald doing what The Herald does with monotonous regularity is at all sincere, well congratulations. Whoever is doing Labour's comms strategy nowadays is just incompetent rather than a malignant race troll. Come to your own conclusions on whether that's a good thing.
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to Russell Brown,
But it’s simply not strong enough to to go public with like this, especially when you can’t control the way the Herald’s going to frame it.
Or to be entirely cynical, you know exactly how a paper with a long history of race-baiting and playing fast and loose with facts around property prices will frame it...
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to Seriatim,
You say Twyford "chose to make the headlines of this story about race", which implies you think he had several options to choose from. So - what were they? What choice would you have made?
Gee, how about stop pretending to be surprised when you "leak" information to the The New Zealand Herald which promptly does what the Herald has done with monotonous regularity since forever? Beat up some half-arsed and dishonest race-based smear.
I honestly don't get you, Seriatim. For someone who claims to want a "serious" and "mature" discussion on housing affordability, you're contorting yourself mightily to give a pass to Labour's unserious, immature and downright dishonest one.
I'll say it again... this is not a race issue.
That's ducky, Aflie. I'll keep responding "bullshit" until one of us gets tired and gives up.
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to llew40,
I would have thought a more natural fit would be target the multi nationals avoiding paying hundreds of millions each year into tax base. But no.
You'd think so, Lew, but don't forget that's far too complicated for the feeble-minded sheeple to understand when a pollster calls.
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and it is unfortunate that some will leap at the 'race card' cliches instead of addressing it.
Yeah, it's unfortunate that we have a serious and complex public policy issue and the Labour Party response has been to shop bullshit junk stats to media outlets with a long and shabby history of xenophobic race-baiting.
Keith has "addressed" it by calling bullshit on feckless and irresponsible dog-whistling, and what's seriously unfortunate is people like you and Tom hand-waving it off as a trivial distraction from real issues blah blah fucking blah...
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The view has long been that talking about suicide to young people is risky, that it normalises suicide as a behaviour. There will be further concern that Mike's campaign is so tightly tied to him as a person.
But we've spent a long time not talking about suicide and the rate is not falling.
Exactly - there's no bad guys here, but there's a lot in the old saw that when you do what you've always done, you get what you've always got. That's not good enough any more, and it's no sign of weakness on anyone's part to say "We're not making progress here, it's time to move in another direction."
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My prediction on this is that there will be some Republican wailing and gnashing-of-teeth this Republican primary cycle, then the eventual nominee will choose not to make it a big deal in the general election because, you know, 60% like the change
60% who were never going to vote for them any way, according to radical right demonology. I'll be very happy to be proved wrong on this, but there are far too many in the GOP (and let's not forget the Presidency is not the only thing up for grabs next November) who've invested far too much in demonizing LGBT for far too long to stop. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is already trolling to be sued which should help get the base out next November, and his credibility if he eventually decides to move on up the political food chain.
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Hard News: Laughing from diversity, and…, in reply to simon g,
An enema might make us uncomfortable, that doesn’t make it satire.
And while talking cheap shots at easy targets you never have to look in the eye might pass muster as “satire” nowadays, it sure looks a lot like good old-fashioned bullying to me. Or is it OK as long as you don’t happen to like the targets?
Monica Lewinsky has some relevant (and surprisingly funny, all things considered) reflections on that topic…
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Hard News: Laughing from diversity, and…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Anyway, good luck to Brown Eye. One complaint though – last week they had Cameron Slater as a guest. They lost one viewer immediately.
It was awkward.
Well, you know what? If you want "satire" that doesn't make you uncomfortable, you're probably missing the point. And while I hate the whole punching up/down/sideways analogy (which is deeply simplistic on way too many fronts), at least insult Slater while he's in the room. It's more than he does to anyone else.
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Hard News: Meet me at Camera 2: White, in reply to Joe Wylie,
As Mihingarangi Forbes’s resignation illustrates, the feudal aspects of Maoridom can once again be relied upon to find common self-interest with white privilege.
I’m not sure Forbes would welcome being co-opted into another discussion of white privilege derailed into what’s really wrong with brown people. Again. Which is not to say there aren’t perfectly legitimate questions to be asked about what’s looking like a pretty dysfunctional corner of the media landscape, but this is a really unfortunate context.