Posts by Sacha
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to linger,
indeed
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to linger,
residential “enclaves”, where they exist, do not necessarily indicate a desire for separatism.
Mutual cultural support, more like. It's not as if there are walls around the many South Africans on the North Shore or the Chinese merchants of Dominion Road. Everyone else is welcome to enter and share respectfully. Many of us enjoy that opportunity to broaden our horizons.
Auckland is one of the most diverse cities on the planet. I sometimes forget it's not the same across the whole nation, but even then the rise of Filipino farm-workers in Southland or Tongans in Oamaru is quite an change from previous decades. How do we support our fellow New Zealanders to move beyond fear lest we surrender to local nastiness like Farage or Trump offer?
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to Dennis Frank,
I'm old enough to remember when the assimilation of immigrants was normal. It produces a mutual-benefit outcome
How does it benefit migrants or locals when the former are expected to forget who they are? I don't want to live with Ethiopians or Koreans or Canadians who are expected somehow to 'fit it' with their Maori, English, Scottish, Irish, German, French, Dutch, Chinese, Samoan or Tongan antecedents. What a ridiculous notion.
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Also possible to see this as a victory for Cameron, apparently.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to BenWilson,
standing beside drivers
Generic problems emerging with that model of startup suggest selfish SanFran libertarians do not take into account the welfare of people who work for them. Verily the new serfs.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to BenWilson,
which suggests to me that it does, in fact, happen
do you mean overseas or here?
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Access: Fighting seclusion with…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
It points to unaddressed deep cultural/moral assumptions about who 'deserves' to have rights and who doesn't. Otherwise, how we *become* disabled would be irrelevant. Activist Wendi Wicks has compared it with our old UK-derived notions of the 'deserving poor'.
If we do not name and unpack for enough of the public those silent underpinnings, no amount of lawyering will move governments. It's a long fight.
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Hard News: Media Take: Three decades on…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
he indifference of networks to commissioning a documentary
Hoping they see this episode as a small proof of concept.
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Hard News: Media Take: Three decades on…, in reply to Tom Johnson,
30 years ago gay rights should have been awarded in an afternoon session in the beehive but bigotry dominated reason for 3 decades.
Reckon. Was a privilege to discuss this with Johnny Givins after the show. He observed that the law changes before culture and practice do. I recall being stoked as a straight man witnessing the spectators at the Hero Parade opening our collective arms in celebration not just 'tolerance'. Felt like the culture had caught up (even if only in that place).
I really do not understand how some bigots are so scared of the world and the diversity of human experience in it. Yet they so clearly and harmfully do.