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| Thread ID: 98567 | 2009-03-29 19:30:00 | Michael Laws hits the nail on the head | nofam (9009) | PC World Chat |
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| 760548 | 2009-03-29 21:42:00 | It would have been more appropriate if the thread title was "Michael Laws needs a nail in the head"... | Tony (4941) | ||
| 760549 | 2009-03-29 21:47:00 | It would have been more appropriate if the thread title was "Michael Laws needs a nail in the head"... For what? |
Peterj116 (6762) | ||
| 760550 | 2009-03-29 22:22:00 | I find it spot on,but wouldn't mind any of his allegations being refuted by our commo compatriots. I fear I will have a long wait. Let's hope Terry entertains us with a song. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 760551 | 2009-03-29 22:56:00 | No, his article isn't insightful or eloquent - and plenty on here say what they think without being either of those things too. There's nothing all that remarkable about Laws or his column. Laws just likes the limelight - he got addicted to being in the spotlight when he first entered politics and will do anything to stay there. I dont understand your point Deane, do you think the article wrong, please advise us where he has got it wrong! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 760552 | 2009-03-29 22:59:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz No comment, cause that'd just be racist..... :rolleyes: |
Peterj116 (6762) | ||
| 760553 | 2009-03-29 23:52:00 | I dont understand your point Deane, do you think the article wrong, please advise us where he has got it wrong! "the Maori Party way is to excuse and equivocate. To shift any blame." An unremarkable comment and the Maori Party differs in no way from any other party in this respect. "Under the illusion that the Maori Party actually has a tangible aspiration for their people. If so, then that collective aspiration must be to bludge, bash and blame." Mere assertion. This is Laws' own prejudice framed as something other people believe or espouse. "It is the true timebomb that ticks in this country our growing underclass, predominantly brown, transient, illiterate, dirty and diseased. And the diseases are not simply of the Third World, but diseases of mind and spirit." Again, mere assertion. His use of the word "predominantly" reveals more about Laws' prejudice than it does about the actual underclass. The underclass in New Zealand is not a recent phenomenon - it is an historical one. Laws entirely misses this point - if he is aware of it at all. |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 760554 | 2009-03-30 00:00:00 | "the Maori Party way is to excuse and equivocate. To shift any blame." An unremarkable comment and the Maori Party differs in no way from any other party in this respect. No - other political parties don't make careers out of blaming big bad whitey. "Under the illusion that the Maori Party actually has a tangible aspiration for their people. If so, then that collective aspiration must be to bludge, bash and blame." Mere assertion. This is Laws' own prejudice framed as something other people believe or espouse. No - the man's right. Given the Maori-only-but-taxpayer-funded privileges handed out to those of the right colour, along with the uncountable millions guilted out of taxpayers via "settlements", Maori should be the happiest, healthiest, richest and most well-behaved race on Earth. Strangely, they're not. What a waste of money. "It is the true timebomb that ticks in this country our growing underclass, predominantly brown, transient, illiterate, dirty and diseased. And the diseases are not simply of the Third World, but diseases of mind and spirit." Again, mere assertion. His use of the word "predominantly" reveals more about Laws' prejudice than it does about the actual underclass. The underclass in New Zealand is not a recent phenomenon - it is an historical one. Laws entirely misses this point - if he is aware of it at all. Yes... predominantly. 20% of the general population, but 60% of the prison population... numbers aren't racist. |
Peterj116 (6762) | ||
| 760555 | 2009-03-30 00:16:00 | Yep Bailey is the commy lefty liberal poster person for the justice system. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 760556 | 2009-03-30 02:10:00 | Yes... predominantly. 20% of the general population, but 60% of the prison population... numbers aren't racist. Numbers are just numbers. They can only ever be used in support of a proposition. They are never the whole story or even the leg of an argument. Hence the saying, "lies, damned lies - and statistics." |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 760557 | 2009-03-30 02:14:00 | In the real world those numbers are people. | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
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