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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:
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. @!@#$) Keith Ng has an awfully good column about liberalism and the National- liberalism in the ACT/USA sense, which is not always the way we use it in NZ. David Haywood was very funny in a satire that, unfortunately, is not all that far from the truth. Holly Walker has s short piece about the usefulness of the phrase "political correctness", Adam Gifford writes about PC and mainstream.
Lyndon Hood kind of summarised my thoughts on the issue, though:
Wayne Mapp: Opposition spokesman for Political Correctness Eradication.
W - as they say - TF?
Had National been elected, we would presumably be forming a Department (surely not a Ministry) of Political Correctness Eradication.
fuckers. To think I thought I wouldn't have any more use for this icon after the election.
Labour & Industrial Relations
Political Correctness Eradication
Chair of Caucus Policy Committee
I kid you not. Actual Eradication. In Radio NZ interviews, he's gone on to advocate the removal of the Human Rights Commission, along with- predictably- the Waitangi Tribunal (I haven't listened to the interviews but I would not be much surprised if he also had a tizzy about Women's Affairs. @!@#$) 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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Mind you, it's quite nice to see DPF get smacked DOWM in his comments section (http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/archives/012313.html)- not that this doesn't happen often; several of his commentators tend to seem more intelligent and logical than he does on a way-too-regular basis. What's really nice, though, this time, is that he seems to be getting smacked by National Supporters. and people with usernames like "rightkiwi." It's a joy and a delight. (read at least the first half of the comments, there's a tonne of junk also but some really neat stuff in there too.)
Winston, I take it back. I love you. Thank you for not sucking Don off.
I never, never thought I'd think anything like this, but compared with Wayne Mapp? Winnie's like a breath of fresh air.
I'm hoping for Bill English... he was so nice and pathetic... mind you, if they keep talking like this, they're a shoo-in to lose the next election (surely, surely...) and hopefully will lose some of the credibility that way-too-long as one of the Two Big Parties has accorded both them and their recent radicalist rhetoric. But if they keep it up, people will start to call bullshit.