Very serious allegations were made against the Arise Church which troubled us all – but they were only ever ‘allegations’. And many of the allegations were made in the media – which we should always be very wary of.
The conduct of Charlie Kirk before his assassination, and the likes of Israel and Maria Folau, give us a good idea of how we should respond to the increasing challenges in society.
We must learn to notice those instincts so that we can signal appropriate disgust wherever we encounter them.
Ordinary people can be locked down, surveilled, imprisoned, cordoned off, written off, dosed up on junk food and fat jabs, made to install inefficient heat pumps, sacked, housed in ugly new builds, left uneducated, laughed at and looked down upon, because they’re only ordinary.
Is celebrating a political assassination is a breach of basic decency and in conflict with the aims of the union he is set to lead? What should the limits of free speech be in positions of responsibility and employment?
You – Minister Stanford – have listened to very narrow views and have not addressed the needs of truly struggling schools.
Family First’s position remains that there should be an immediate end to new prescribing of puberty blockers due to the clear lack of quality probative evidence of efficacy and safety.
“The offers also ignore educators and children’s need for more support in the classroom and for te Tiriti and te reo Māori.”
Collins hails ‘convenience’. Others argue no government software should run on personal devices.
This is not collateral damage. It is the design. A fractured society is a pliable society. The more its members despise one another, the easier it is for elites to consolidate power under the guise of adjudicating conflicting rights-claims.
‘Chimerica’ is unraveling – but its contradictions remain.
Creating parallel power structures based on race does not heal divisions – it institutionalises them.
Let this tragedy not be in vain. Let it be the impetus for a better way forward.
