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# I Confess!
- URL: https://goodoil.news/i-confess/
- Published: 2022-08-29T21:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-29T07:34:27.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: Education, Free Speech, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

**Barbara McKenzie**  
Wellington Mayoral candidate  
[stovouno.org](https://stovouno.org/2022/08/28/the-confessions-of-barbara-mckenzie/?ref=goodoil.news)

*Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature.*

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The Victoria University of Wellington Students Association (VUWSA) recently issued a [defamatory press](https://www.vuwsa.org.nz/media/2022/8/26/vuwsa-statement-on-mayoral-candidates-debate?ref=goodoil.news) statement to the effect that they were ‘uninviting’ me from their mayoral debate, due to my *‘racist and transphobic views’,* while also being concerned about the danger of students being infected with Covid scepticism (or any scepticism, one suspects).

> ‘The views that Barbara McKenzie brings encroach upon the safety of all of our students and staff here on campus. Her spread of misinformation, disinformation and mal-information around COVID-19 and vaccinations, as well as her racist and transphobic comments, are dangerous and harmful.’

No evidence was provided of *‘racist and transphobic comments’*, and VUWSA has not replied to my inquiry for details, but it is apparent that such charges are based solely on my political views, not on any offensive wording.

Clearly, the statement from VUWSA, and subsequent attention from the [media](https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=146952&ref=goodoil.news), will make me the target of hate from ideologues, the disaffected and the bored; in short the world has become a more dangerous place. The issue is therefore relevant to the mayoral campaign. In the interest of transparency:

#### I confess to the following:

**I confess** to a reluctance to speak on any issue without studying it carefully.

**I confess** that I adamantly oppose NZ’s abusive school programme, which [bullies small children into feeling insecure about their gender](https://stovouno.org/2020/06/19/cultural-marxism-and-the-nz-sex-education-curriculum/?ref=goodoil.news) (*‘Imagine waking up one morning and discovering that your gender has changed‘*), seeks to [create racial hatred through critical race theory](https://stovouno.org/2021/06/09/the-nz-histories-curriculum-more-child-abuse-from-the-ministry-of-indoctrination/?ref=goodoil.news), and [lies about the demographic status of polar bears](https://stovouno.org/2020/01/27/the-nz-climate-change-curriculum-is-cult-indoctrination-and-child-abuse/?ref=goodoil.news).

**I confess** that I oppose allowing men who’ve declared that they’re women to ruin women’s sports.

**I confess** to being disgusted by the spiteful shaming by Wellington City Council of a pro-women’s group, by [lighting up in rainbow colours](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingtons-michael-fowler-centre-to-be-lit-in-transgender-flag-colours/DBEL6KCT2CXOF7KCVOLUT6KVSM/?ref=goodoil.news) the venue where they were holding a public meeting.

**I confess** that I oppose WCC’s undemocratic policy of progressing towards co-governance without input from voters.

As someone with knowledge of many languages and who has travelled widely, **I confess** to being totally mystified by the policy, unique to New Zealand, of promoting the Maori language by consciously and artificially hybridising English.

On 29 March 2020 Ashleigh Bloomfield told a press conference that ‘*As we have seen around the world, [Covid-19 CAN be a deadly disease](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/412864/coronavirus-first-death-in-new-zealand-from-covid-19?ref=goodoil.news) – particularly for older people, and those with underlying pre-existing health issues’*, a description echoed by Jacinda Ardern and others. **I confess** to scepticism that such a disease justifies measures that impact severely and in multiple ways on the economy, jobs and businesses, the health system, human rights and children’s welfare, or justifies the ostracism of vaccine refusers.

In 2010 Glaxo Smith Kline pulled its Swine Flu Vaccine after a few months [because of the injuries](https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/brain-damaged-uk-victims-swine-flu-vaccine-get-60-million-compensation-1438572?ref=goodoil.news). **I confess** to agreeing with GSK, many [health professionals](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/18/nurses-swine-flu-vaccine-safety?ref=goodoil.news), and the facts of science, that vaccines are not always safe, effective and justified, and thus are open to scrutiny. **I maintain** that denial of this fact is anti-intellectual cultism.

**I confess** to being gobsmacked by the [wacky conspiracy theory](https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2022/08/circuit/fire-and-fury-disinformation-in-new-zealand/?ref=goodoil.news), developed by *Stuff* and promoted by other media, that the bunch of women who ruled the Freedom Village at Parliament with a rod of iron and kept it immaculate are somehow involved in plotting violent revolution.

**I confess** to opposing NZ and Wellington’s Zero Carbon by 2050 policy, given that: costs for NZ are estimated [to exceed $550 billion](http://www.bryanleyland.co.nz/uploads/2/9/7/1/29710909/nzeng%5Flecture%5Fprof%5Fkelly.pptx?ref=goodoil.news), and assume huge sacrifices in terms of our economy, environment and quality of life; it will achieve nothing in view of the [coal-fired power stations](https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210630-asian-coal-plant-drive-threatens-climate-goals-report?ref=goodoil.news) being built in Asia and elsewhere, and global activity generally; and [Rod Carr has admitted](http://www.bryanleyland.co.nz/uploads/2/9/7/1/29710909/email%5Fexchanges%5Fbetween%5Fbryan%5Fleyland%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fclimate%5Fcommission%5Fduring%5F2020%5Fand%5F2022.pdf?ref=goodoil.news) that the Climate Commission has no convincing evidence that CO2 causes dangerous global warming other than a touching faith in the (debunked) *‘consensus of climate scientists’*.

**I confess** to believing that WCC’s [Significant Natural Area](https://alethonews.com/2021/12/13/significant-natural-areas-wellington-city-councils-plan-to-expropriate-and-rewild-home-gardens/?ref=goodoil.news) policy of expanding the city’s reserves at the expense of private land (regardless of significance) signifies an intention to expand the city’s reserves at the expense of private land.

**I confess** to being deeply concerned at the division and hatred created by pandering to the demands of the extremist elements of minority groups. While minorities may benefit from measures that favour them, overall it makes the world a less safe place for them. Virtue-signalers love the division; I hate it.

**I confess** to a suspicion that what VUWSA and other players find dangerous is dissent backed by facts and rational argument.

**It will be up to the courts, and the voters, to decide whether any of these sins amount to racism or transphobia.**

See also:

VUWSA’s statement was smartly picked up Wellington Scoop, where it has attracted much comment. [VUWSA excludes mayoral candidate from election debate](https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=146952&ref=goodoil.news)

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