Every single legacy media outlet ran deceptive headlines claiming that Winston Peters compared co-governance with Nazi Germany, or the Holocaust. It was all lies.
None of it was true.
What Winston Peters actually said was this:
“It was not just ideological theory, it was race-based theory. Where some people’s DNA made them, sadly, according to these people, and condoned by their cultural fellow travellers, their DNA made them somehow better than others.
I’ve seen that sort of philosophy before, I saw it in Nazi Germany, we all did. We have seen it elsewhere in the world in the horrors of history, but right here in our country tolerated by the very people whose job is to keep the system honest.”
Winston Peters
There was no mention of co-governance or the Holocaust. The media have beaten up Winston Peters for days on end over something he neither said nor even remotely argued. He was clearly talking about what happens when you pursue race-based policies predicated on the idea that one particular race is superior to others and therefore should enjoy special privileges.
But Winston Peters has a point. The Holocaust didn’t start with the gas chambers; no, it started with something far more insidious.
It started when one party controlled the media, deciding what was truth and what was propaganda.
It started when one party censored speech and silenced dissent, effectively controlling the opposition.
It started when one party divided citizens into “us” and “them,” scapegoating minorities and inciting hatred.
And it started when good people turned a blind eye and let it happen.
And it didn’t just happen in Nazi Germany, it also happened in South Africa with apartheid and in many other countries that also went down this path.
It happened right here in New Zealand under the Ardern/Hipkins regime. And that is what Winston Peters is calling out.
But, just like with Trump, the media have to tell lies and put words in Winston Peters’s mouth that he never said.
And the media wonder why Winston Peters, and indeed the majority of Kiwis believe the media are corrupted liars and deserve to wither and die, buried under the weight of their lies.
Will the media apologise? Of course not, they’ll die before they ever do that.
Cam Slater is a New Zealand-based blogger, best known for his role in Dirty Politics and publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog, which operated from 2005 until it closed in 2019. Cam blogs regularly on the BFD - where this article was sourced.
5 comments:
Very good Cam - identifying what serious thinking people realise,
Of more promise would be solutions.
What can be? should be? done to correct the nasty people. They have been rubbishing this Government
since they have come to power. Insulting those who elected the coalition! in contempt of the choice the
voters have made.
I refuse to watch TVNZ news as I do not like to be insulted with gafuffalunk, and I am not a brainiac.
Keep on Cam, avoid despair.
The Marxist Ardern govt and their media lapdogs inevitably accuse their opposition with what they practice themselves.
There needs to be a very deliberate & sustained old school attack against the left & their sycophants in the media, such as posters, billboards & letter drops exposing their lies & blatant hypocrisy.
Just today, Hipkins, without a hint of irony, said:
“ I think the Government were behaving in a dictatorial manner in the way that they have been pushing law changes through without references to anybody and without any proper democratic process around that, particularly areas where they did not campaign on."
What an idiot. In order to have some intellectual & moral or ethical superiority, you actually have to possess some in the first place.
Let’s see a list of all laws & policies they passed under urgency during the pandemic, or pushed through with their majority, that they did not campaign on, starting with implementing He Puapua, prisoners’ votes & conversion therapy.
Thanks to Act & NZF is doing exactly what they said they would, getting our country back on track, which means as far away from the wasteful & ideologically driven left as they can get.
The media are partisan and spread lies and falsehoods. What is news here.
TV1 and 3 are feeling the backlash.
There are so many things that Labour did under Jacinda and Hipkins that was like Germany in the 1930s - let me go away and write a list .........
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