The ‘inappropriate’ (quote unquote Gerry Brownlee) actions of Julie Anne Genter when she accosted mild-mannered National minister Matt Doocey in Parliament this week waving a booklet in his face, demonstrated it is actions not words that are dangerous.
Jacinda Ardern hopes to keep enlightening us all, courtesy of the NZ taxpayer, that, along with banning heinous brutality online, words (which contradict her radical ideology) should also be banned as they are ‘unsafe’. The same as the students at Victoria University, whose coercive bullying succeeded in cancelling a debate on Free Speech, as some views would make them feel ‘unsafe’.
She compares words contradicting her own warped ideology to ‘weapons of war’ and will continue to do so if the Government foolishly keeps funding her failed Christchurch Call.
This is Ardern’s key driving force: to coercively shut down opposing views to her own.
Not brutality online.
Her deafening silence in response to the heinous genocide by Hamas of some 1300 Jewish people on 7 October is a testament to this. Where was her public outrage? This was streamed on phones by the terrorists to people in Gaza (who, reportedly, danced in the streets at the news of the slaughter): exactly what the Christchurch Call was set up to prevent.
And not a peep out of her.
This told us all we need to know about the fake person who parades as kind and caring. She is nothing more than a virtue signaller and worshipper of the dangerous DEI ideology. That was a major catalyst for resignation of the Scottish First Minister after the failure of his hate crime laws, and after the uproar caused by courageous J K Rowling saying the quiet part out loud (a man can’t actually change to a woman), which Jacinda considers ‘unsafe’ because it may offend the transgender community.
Not that you were informed about this resignation by the New Zealand media, who it seems, having run their sanitising ruler over the facts, found them too confronting or maybe ‘unsafe’ to report.
They are late adopters of the bare facts and were early adopters of Ardern’s DEI agenda, which they embraced with relish and still refuse to let go of.
Stuff seems to be the first online MSM outlet to use the term ‘anti Israeli protesters’ when referring to the riots in the US, as opposed to ‘pro Palestine’, the euphemistic term used by all New Zealand media to sugarcoat the reality.
These students are racist, anti Israeli, pro terrorism and pro Hamas.
Just like the Maori party and the Greens, who embarrassingly parade with their tea towels around their necks, ignorantly citing deadly anti Israeli rhymes which they defend as harmless.
With them is it pure racism and hatred or just abject stupidity? A bit of both?
Brownlee’s more lax approach to discipline and to rules on dress in the House has the unfortunate effect, when the cameras are on the Maori party in particular, of making one swear that the circus has come to town.
And his insistence on utter silence during questions, but letting mayhem commence from the Opposition benches during government answers is the polar opposite of the era of Speaker Mallard, who instilled fear, but at least kept order.
Back to unprofessional Genter, who may be a victim of this more lax environment.
Proof that it is actions not words which make us unsafe. Had she taken the more professional route and expressed her vehement opposition to the subject being discussed from her seat, she would not be in the unenviable position of having a privileges complaint laid against her by a fellow MP. With more possibly to follow.
However, Genter’s meltdown when she completely lost control and almost physically assaulted another MP shows us what is truly dangerous or ‘unsafe’.
And it is not words.
Wendy Geus is a former speechwriter and generalist communications advisor in local government. She now writes for the pure love of it. This article was originally published HERE
She compares words contradicting her own warped ideology to ‘weapons of war’ and will continue to do so if the Government foolishly keeps funding her failed Christchurch Call.
This is Ardern’s key driving force: to coercively shut down opposing views to her own.
Not brutality online.
Her deafening silence in response to the heinous genocide by Hamas of some 1300 Jewish people on 7 October is a testament to this. Where was her public outrage? This was streamed on phones by the terrorists to people in Gaza (who, reportedly, danced in the streets at the news of the slaughter): exactly what the Christchurch Call was set up to prevent.
And not a peep out of her.
This told us all we need to know about the fake person who parades as kind and caring. She is nothing more than a virtue signaller and worshipper of the dangerous DEI ideology. That was a major catalyst for resignation of the Scottish First Minister after the failure of his hate crime laws, and after the uproar caused by courageous J K Rowling saying the quiet part out loud (a man can’t actually change to a woman), which Jacinda considers ‘unsafe’ because it may offend the transgender community.
Not that you were informed about this resignation by the New Zealand media, who it seems, having run their sanitising ruler over the facts, found them too confronting or maybe ‘unsafe’ to report.
They are late adopters of the bare facts and were early adopters of Ardern’s DEI agenda, which they embraced with relish and still refuse to let go of.
Stuff seems to be the first online MSM outlet to use the term ‘anti Israeli protesters’ when referring to the riots in the US, as opposed to ‘pro Palestine’, the euphemistic term used by all New Zealand media to sugarcoat the reality.
These students are racist, anti Israeli, pro terrorism and pro Hamas.
Just like the Maori party and the Greens, who embarrassingly parade with their tea towels around their necks, ignorantly citing deadly anti Israeli rhymes which they defend as harmless.
With them is it pure racism and hatred or just abject stupidity? A bit of both?
Brownlee’s more lax approach to discipline and to rules on dress in the House has the unfortunate effect, when the cameras are on the Maori party in particular, of making one swear that the circus has come to town.
And his insistence on utter silence during questions, but letting mayhem commence from the Opposition benches during government answers is the polar opposite of the era of Speaker Mallard, who instilled fear, but at least kept order.
Back to unprofessional Genter, who may be a victim of this more lax environment.
Proof that it is actions not words which make us unsafe. Had she taken the more professional route and expressed her vehement opposition to the subject being discussed from her seat, she would not be in the unenviable position of having a privileges complaint laid against her by a fellow MP. With more possibly to follow.
However, Genter’s meltdown when she completely lost control and almost physically assaulted another MP shows us what is truly dangerous or ‘unsafe’.
And it is not words.
Wendy Geus is a former speechwriter and generalist communications advisor in local government. She now writes for the pure love of it. This article was originally published HERE
7 comments:
We need more words. Open discussion advances the world. Forced silence is the dark ages as seen in authoritarian regimes.
Words and open discussion allows venting, and prevent escalation. Only when words are suppressed is their escalation. That is why those in power seek to suppress free speech, they will not accept challenges to their dogma and challenges to their power.
"Stuff seems to be the first online MSM outlet to use the term ‘anti Israeli protesters’ when referring to the riots in the US, as opposed to ‘pro Palestine’, the euphemistic term used by all New Zealand media to sugarcoat the reality."
What's wrong with being anti-Israel, Wendy, and why is it supposedly verboten to hold this attitude? Personally, I am anti-Israel. However, this is the attitude I have adopted, not due to any irrational hatred of Jews (always the Jewish account of any criticism of Jews or of Israel, aka "anti-semitism"), but simply because I have observed the actions of Israeli Jews over the last 6 or 7 months, and I have rationally judged them accordingly on the basis of those actions (empiricism, of course, being the determinate factor in almost all "anti-semitism" wherever it has occurred throughout history, rather than the Jewish excuse of irrational hatred).
In this regard, I'm not really pro-Palestinian at all, I am anti-Israel. Most of the world is anti-Israel at the moment for the same reasons I am, so if Jews want "anti-semitism" to subside, perhaps they should petition their co-ethnics in Israel who are making all Jews look bad right now.
"....the heinous genocide by Hamas of some 1300 Jewish people on 7 October is a testament to this."
If Wendy thinks that 1300 Jews dead is a genocide of Jews, then she must really be beside herself when she considers the 20-40,000 (depending on the source, but easily 20,000 by now) dead Palestinian civilians at the hands of the IDF's reign of terror over Gaza. Somehow, I don't think she's losing much sleep over this.
It would seem, that here in New Zealand we have a 'person' with the pseudonym - "Madame Blavastsky"- who from reading 'the posted comment' by this anonymous person - they have no idea of the truth regarding history of Palestine, the actions taken on the 7th October 2023, by Hamas and the subsequent issues caused more by Hamas, than Israel. And it is possible 'their truth' comes from social media, the very element that Jacinda Ardern spoke about, both in New Zealand (to which her comments related to the information that was both created & published on social media re the shooting of people in 2 Mosques in Christchurch) - stated here in NZ, and again at the UN, as being the medium where by - misinformation, disinformation and outright lies are perpetrated, that are spread so quickly, that those both reading & reposting do not know what they read, nor understand prior to reposting.
Sadly we have been seeing the same action since Russia invaded Ukraine.
The same activity occurred when the Princess of Wales became unwell.
Sadly here in NZ, we have 'been lied to and fed false information via both TV News channels' regarding the Israel- Gaza situation. And this is not going to improve with Stuff becoming a multi national news outlet.
This is the State of the World now, and many do not see it improving.
It isn’t wrong to be anti-Zionist, but it will always be lumped in with antisemitism by those who support the state of Israel. The campaign to create and expand the state of Israel has been and continues to be one of ethnic cleansing. Arabs in Israel are second class residents with different rights to Jewish citizens. It is an apartheid state so why would do otherwise sensible people like Wendy support it? You cannot fight such a thing at home and then support it overseas. It’s probably because she has been purposefully disinformed by those who own the international media.
Great article Wendy, each point was right on target. Well done.
Madam B, I would have to support your anti-Israel stance. They are obviously an extremely inept bunch, despite many months of genocide, they have failed miserably. It is almost as if genocide isn't actually their aim, just a wild claim made against them.
Unfortunately Wendy Geus has an unbalanced view of the situation in Palestine: one that has been artificially created by foreign powers determined to give a nation state to a group of people who say they are Jews, but are not because they don't follow the Torah but a religious book whose origins lie in Babylonian paganism and have no genetic or cultural relationship to the Jewish people of the old testament.
Demonising your opposition can be done by either side, and Wendy does a great job in this article.
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