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# Dickhead of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/dickhead-of-the-day-3/
- Published: 2020-09-08T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-09-09T21:25:44.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Featured, Free Speech, Media, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

Today’s Dickhead of the day, David Farrier, has a nasty little hobby. He likes to **deplatform** people, try to cost them their jobs and shitpost about them afterwards to really rub their noses in it. He is the poster boy for **Cancel Culture.**

**David Farrier** is the guy who tried very hard to cost a NZ Christian teacher his job because he went to a protest wearing a MAGA cap. He didn’t just harass the teacher’s school once, **he repeatedly e-mailed them demanding that they sack the teacher** and wrote an article about his failed attempt while trying to drum up a social media mob to help him achieve his nasty, spiteful goal.

Yesterday he must have felt particularly pleased with himself as he deplatformed for the **second time** columnist Steve Elers.

Here is what happened in Steve’s own words from an e-mail he sent out to his subscribers.

## Weekly column – Deplatformed!

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**Cancel culture strikes again!**

Dear Subscriber,

Today I was informed by Merania Karauria – the editor of the Manawatu Guardian (part of the NZME conglomerate) – that my weekly column will no longer be published in print or on the NZ Herald’s website.

She said she received a directive this morning from Kim Gillespie (NZ Herald/NZME) due to complaints made over the weekend. I will highlight here that Merania contacted me again stating that she is responsible for the decision making, but I know that it came from above at NZ Herald/NZME.

The complaints are in relation to a series of Twitter messages and an online article by David Farrier (see below). Note: Do not mistake him for David Farrar of Kiwiblog.

**This is the second time I have been ‘deplatformed’ or ‘cancelled’ by Mr Farrier. Maybe he fancies me or something.**

Mr Farrier led the online campaign to have my weekly Stuff column ‘cancelled’ because he disagreed with this [article](https://steveelers.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eef20a7aa5129020b29e36151&id=5d868c774d&e=451d00cb9c&ref=goodoil.news) I wrote back in July.

After Stuff let me go I was fortunate to switch to the Manawatu Guardian/NZ Herald. However, Mr Farrier took exception (again!) to an article I published last month. Read my article for yourself [here](https://steveelers.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eef20a7aa5129020b29e36151&id=50b7825344&e=451d00cb9c&ref=goodoil.news).

On the weekend he published [this article about me](https://steveelers.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eef20a7aa5129020b29e36151&id=29267fba92&e=451d00cb9c&ref=goodoil.news). He also had a little rant on Twitter:

If you thought that ‘cancel culture’ was only in the United States, it’s definitely here too! It is worrying, isn’t it?

**Perhaps I can lay claim to being the first columnist let go by both *Stuff* and *NZ Herald* because they caved under pressure from the angry mob.**

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