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labellementeuse) wrote2005-10-28 06:50 pm
labellementeuse) wrote2005-10-28 06:50 pm
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*stunned*
So, in the post-Election National party shuffle-around and line up, #14 Wayne Mapp has been appointed:
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Political Correctness Eradication
Chair of Caucus Policy Committee
I kid you not. Actual Eradication. In Radio NZ interviews, he's gone on to advocate the removal of the Human Rights Commission, along with- predictably- the Waitangi Tribunal (I haven't listened to the interviews but I would not be much surprised if he also had a tizzy about Women's Affairs. @!@#$) Keith Ng has an awfully good column about liberalism and the National- liberalism in the ACT/USA sense, which is not always the way we use it in NZ. David Haywood was very funny in a satire that, unfortunately, is not all that far from the truth. Holly Walker has s short piece about the usefulness of the phrase "political correctness", Adam Gifford writes about PC and mainstream.
Lyndon Hood kind of summarised my thoughts on the issue, though:
Wayne Mapp: Opposition spokesman for Political Correctness Eradication.
W - as they say - TF?
Had National been elected, we would presumably be forming a Department (surely not a Ministry) of Political Correctness Eradication.
fuckers. To think I thought I wouldn't have any more use for this icon after the election.
Labour & Industrial Relations
Political Correctness Eradication
Chair of Caucus Policy Committee
I kid you not. Actual Eradication. In Radio NZ interviews, he's gone on to advocate the removal of the Human Rights Commission, along with- predictably- the Waitangi Tribunal (I haven't listened to the interviews but I would not be much surprised if he also had a tizzy about Women's Affairs. @!@#$) Keith Ng has an awfully good column about liberalism and the National- liberalism in the ACT/USA sense, which is not always the way we use it in NZ. David Haywood was very funny in a satire that, unfortunately, is not all that far from the truth. Holly Walker has s short piece about the usefulness of the phrase "political correctness", Adam Gifford writes about PC and mainstream.
Lyndon Hood kind of summarised my thoughts on the issue, though:
Wayne Mapp: Opposition spokesman for Political Correctness Eradication.
W - as they say - TF?
Had National been elected, we would presumably be forming a Department (surely not a Ministry) of Political Correctness Eradication.
fuckers. To think I thought I wouldn't have any more use for this icon after the election.
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... except this is the National Party. 39% of people voted for them. This is not a small group, this is not even ACT, this is National. It's freaking disgusting and Orewa all over again, featuring National using its mainstream kudos to condone bigotry, racism, and foul injustice in the name of "the mainstream." Simply by claiming that they speak for everyone, they succeed in convincing that their views are somehow not as radical as they truly are. It's the biggest sleight of hand around and it's sickening.
WRT: discussion and political correctness: one of the most interesting things about the term "politically correct" is that it was spawned by the right as a derogatory term, which we forget. It was designed to obscure argument: politicians label something "politically correct" (or, fair's far, "politically incorrect") and suddenly all debate on the topic in question is about whether or not it's "politically correct," and what's good and bad about PC- rather than about what's good and bad with the idea itself.
Someone on David P Farrar- the right wing blog, and the commenter too seems to be a Nationalist- wrote:
"My point is the slogan 'political correctness' is intelectually bankrupt. Simply labelling as political correct Lesley Soper's suggestion that maiden speeches be renamed doesn't actually add anything to the debate about whether Lesley Soper is right or wrong. The follow up question to that labelling shoud surely be "So what?". Whether it is or isn't 'politically correct' really doesn't say much about whether we should take up her idea or not or why it would be bad idea. Simply saying because it is PC is not good enough.
And I for one am sick and tired of that intellectually lazy slogan. It's time for National to offer us a little more depth (if that's possible)."
right on.
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