Posts by Emma Hart
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
is someone confirming it on the Internet really an advance on pub talk?
On the 'public' internet, yes. Because in my experience, pub talk = Twitter DMs.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Keir Leslie,
f you look at the people who've gone on record as unimpressed with the Clayton for East story, you've got two LEC Chairs and a couple of other assorted bods
Yes. I know a bunch of Labour people, and over the last few months I've been party to some Conversations of Discontent over stuff like this. If I'd given up on Labour, I wouldn't have bothered writing this.
However. I personally quit the Labour Party in 1989 and it's a decision I'm at peace with. For a long time, I've felt that I could do the kind of issues advocacy I do more effectively by not being a member of any party. Until this morning, when I joined the Greens...
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Hebe,
The other factor to consider when shopping for a candidate is that the nature of the electorate will change in the next boundary redraw:
Oh, man, Hebe, I have this rant I do after a couple of beers about how nobody seems interested in the boundary redraw. The by-election will be on the old boundaries*, but the next general? The knock-on effects of the big population moves will flow through the whole greater Canterbury area.
*I was told this in a pub.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Gee,
Pity John Campbell isn't a mother from Chch East, I think he'd win hands down...
He might be the carpet-bagging exception: he'd win in a freaking landslide down here.
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Also, can we appoint Lieutenant General David Morrison to take care of security at Eden Park from now on?
I've watched this three times today (showing it to other people) and I cry every time. "The standard you walk past is the standard you accept." That's pretty much what I was trying to say.
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Field Theory: Part of the Game, in reply to BenWilson,
I'd say it's got better, but it's got a ways to go.
It has absolutely improved. I mean, what's more polite than the "Give us a wave" chant?
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hopefully someone pointed out that the thugs who said homophobic slurs were "part of the game" were clearly wrong because they were saying them to a gay couple.
She was at the game with her brother, not her girlfriend, but the reason they were wrong is even more compelling: she was captain of her high school rugby team.
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Scott Chris,
The public events I attend have a prevailing culture compatible with my levels of passive tolerance.
But you're okay with a rugby player not being able to watch a rugby game without being abused. Okay.
Lot of men out there feel discriminated against, probably without much justification from my perspective - but perception is reality at an individual level.
You don't think maybe there's a difference in the actual realities?
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Matt Smith,
That gets back to Emma's point that in that situation people often don't feel safe enough to complain. It's hard to speak up to a group of usually drunk guys, "What you're doing isn't on." because there's always the risk they might get violent or simply more unpleasant.
Which led me to my biggest quandary with this: in front of my children. When my kids were actually kids, I really wanted them to think this stuff was Not Okay. And if I don't say anything when it happens, I'm not teaching them that. But. If the kids were around, I was much less likely to speak up in case things got unpleasant.
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Mike Kilpatrick NZ,
It's a shocking response from Eden Park - essentially as it's condoning the use of hate slurs.
This. The response goes beyond just failing to condemn homophobic bullying, and into supporting it. "PC Police" is the kind of language these men would, I think, use themselves. It's the kind of language people will be using on Radio Sport today.
But there's also a really useful and unpleasant lesson for bystanders here: your silence will be taken as assent. She's saying society supported these men, because nobody spoke up. Not because anybody else joined in with them, but because nobody supported Hannah. We have to do better.