The outline of the extensive training manual can be found on the NZ Police home page (Advice and Services/Advice for victims/Hate motivated crime/The Weave). There is plenty in these pages to shock, not least the clarification of ‘hate/hostility’ which, according to NZ Police is the same as ‘bias/prejudice’. Notice ‘hate’ is equated with ‘bias’ which no dictionary would consider as synonymous but according to the police manual would allow mere negative feelings to be categorised as a stronger and more dangerous emotion.
By that metric most of this blog’s writers could be flagged as ‘haters’ for holding different opinions to current Leftist orthodoxies. Ditto those who merely read such opinions if Internet New Zealand soon gets its way on tracking all behaviours of users of the miraculous world wide web.
What could happen as a result of being pinged by police for hurty words is yet unclear. Perhaps you would never know that your name had been flagged but that IRD would now refuse your previously legitimate tax refund claims. Or as in Starmer’s Britain, five or six coppers would turn up at your door to warn you to play nice, or else. Not that they’d have had time to come round if your car had been stolen.
Ayling has pointed out that according to the training guidelines the statement ‘there are only two genders’ can be construed as non-criminal hate speech in New Zealand but since the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on Wednesday, this is no longer true in Britain.
It was interesting to discover what the NZ Herald, having long cast off its capitalist running dog persona in favour of that ideology’s many, many victims, would make of this. Its reportage seemed unnervingly neutral, until I realised that it had reprinted a syndicated article from The Telegraph. Only its own headline ‘UK Supreme Court ruling limits sex-based rights to biological women,’ hints that the Herald newsroom may have perceived an injustice.
That this ruling sought to make right the unintended consequences of previous confusing, if poorly drafted, legislation was no doubt the reason that Lord Hodge said that it should not be seen as a ‘victory’ for either side. Nevertheless, Women For Scotland are fairly celebrating a victory after five years of expensive, dispiriting and vilified struggle and trans-activists will be looking to mount appeals probably funded by creepy Uncle Blackrock and other murky actors skulking in the wings.
If it is no longer un-factual to say in Britain that transwomen are not women, is it also permissible for Brits to speculate on why a tsunami of men have adopted this cos play craze?
Can they now suggest that it’s to game the system, like the Spanish squaddie who announced to his sergeant that he identified as female in order to be excused sharing a bunkroom and bathroom with his fellow soldiers, so to get separate private accommodation? Like Dylan Mulvaney and his jeering and belittling videos on the subject of ‘girlhood’? Or as when male criminals, post-conviction, self-identify as women to avoid incarceration in men’s prisons?
Can they now say without censure that it’s so third-rate sportsmen can compete against women and hoover up awards they are not entitled to?
Will they be able to freely point out that the majority of trans-women are sexual fetishists or opportunists whose free and dubious access to women’s only spaces has nullified a century of work for women’s rights and sexual safety?
Probably not. But will NZ police even take any notice of UK’s landmark decision and delete thought-crimes about pronouns from their training manual or will the NZ$10 million already spent on this justify ploughing ahead with initiatives that focus public servants, whom we pay, on massaging people’s hurt feelings?
Penn Raine is an educator and writer who lives in NZ and France.
4 comments:
Good on the UK Supreme Court. Sanity seems to be returning after a long break. Hopefully the winds of sanity will start blowing over in the Antipodes soon too.
Unfortunately, in the Antipodies we also have to deal with "indiginous" bullies who like to support many genders. So they will cry racism if the Trans are not able to impinge on the world of women. Our politicians won't be able to cope with that so will do nothing. MC
Engineered Imbalance – Ideological virus – Inversion Matrix.
Pink Floyd’s brick in the wall is more appropriate for this dark, deliberate, psychologically engineered, ideological virus being inflicted on we the people.
We don't need no re-education, we don't need no thought control, no NCHI in the classroom, hey, government, leave the mind control alone.
In this new system, if we allow it, the majority becomes the villain and the truth becomes hate speech. This is a war between truth and programming.
There is somebody, or bodies, in Police bureaucracy - you can bet your last $ s/he’s not on the beat in some way - is pushing this NCHI change, impervious to criticism because s/he is so well-shielded. This is liberal ideology & indoctrination in its vilest form, and as FSU has already argued, is beyond parliamentary approval and/or existing law.
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