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labellementeuseSo, 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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Date: 2005-10-28 08:24 am (UTC)What?!
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Date: 2005-10-28 08:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-29 06:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-28 10:41 am (UTC)On the other hand, this guy is a representative of the chief Opposition party, who campaigned on- among other things- the "mainstream New Zealand" (their leader, two nights before the election, actually said that anyone who voted for Labour was not "mainstream." (Hence icon...) Mainstream is the party now in Government, with 2% more votes than National. I find it incredibly frustrating how, by dint of being a Major Party, they are condoning as "mainstream" what is really fringe rhetoric. it's like some sick sleight of hand and it's killing me.
But we're really not all that bad... honest...
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Date: 2005-10-28 06:25 pm (UTC)I'm going to start saying "Aren't National Dumbarses" to people as they come through work.
And I'll keep saying mainstream isn't old bald white men who only get 40% of the vote.
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Date: 2005-10-30 03:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-31 10:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-29 06:22 am (UTC)Oh, don't worry! I believe you! I'm from America, after all - not much room to talk here.
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Date: 2005-10-31 10:28 am (UTC)Er, not about America, of course. *makes sympathetic noises*