Satire isn’t just comedy; it’s a form of critical thinking, and if people are falling for the most blatantly exaggerated nonsense, maybe we need to start teaching satire in English classes across the country and make it an NCEA subject before things get even dumber.
Imagine if those who proclaim to care deeply about Palestinian children such as yourself had called out Hamas decades ago for brainwashing Gaza’s children and training them to hate and become martyrs.
If universities will not defend inquiry over ideology, then they forfeit their moral and academic authority. The public, the students, and the ideal of higher education itself all deserve far better.
There are laws that are doing real harm and I would like to see that acknowledged in the public debate.
We should not have to walk university campuses and see the oldest hatred in the world dressed up as revolution.
When activism masquerades as academia: Otago’s crisis of intellectual integrity.
In episode four of the Good Oil Podcast, Cam chats with Penny Marie, founder of Let Kids Be Kids NZ, on gender ideology, school transparency and why parents need to reclaim their voice. A bold, honest conversation about education and its direction.
Guess who is really cutting education spending for millions of public school students?
Freezing Harvard’s federal funding is one thing; stripping its tax-exempt status is quite another.
Other countries have acted. The United States, Germany, the European Union, and Canada have all suspended or reconsidered their UNRWA funding after learning of staff participation in terrorism and systemic antisemitic indoctrination. New Zealand, meanwhile, is standing still.
Why? Because the smartest and hardest working are being shafted by dummies.
Sex education experts? Tabby Besley (InsideOut) and Tracey Clelland (Beyond The Birds and Bees) were interviewed, along with Penny Marie from Let Kids Be Kids, on 1News recently about the RSE refresh.
It’s an all-hands-on-deck fight to stop Trump from taking away their captive audiences.
When cultural beliefs are given parity with science, it jeopardizes public trust in scientific institutions and can foster misinformation, especially in areas such as public health, where the stakes are especially high.
How long taxpayers will agree to support universities which dedicate themselves to ‘decolonisation’ and the overthrow of ‘Western knowledge’ – and boast about it as Auckland University’s newsletter has done – is an open question.
