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worryingly jolly batman ([personal profile] labellementeuse) wrote2005-10-28 06:50 pm

*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.

[identity profile] miriamus.livejournal.com 2005-10-29 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
So it's spokesman for totally missing the point then is it? :P

[identity profile] -cynick-.livejournal.com 2005-10-29 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
... or spokesperson ...

[identity profile] miriamus.livejournal.com 2005-10-31 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
that too.