Karl du Fresne: On activists from other countries and their role in the culture wars

A commenter on this blog a few days ago drew attention to the fact that some of the most active antagonists in the culture wars are relatively recent arrivals in New Zealand.

I commented on the same phenomenon in a post two years ago. I named the abortion activist Terry Bellamak (American), the Green MP Ricardo Menendez-March (Mexican), migrant activist Guled Mire (Somalian) and our old friend, chief human rights commissioner Paul Hunt (British).

Since then there’s been a slight reshuffle of the names. Mire seems to have gone quiet and Bellamak has dropped out of sight, presumably because she achieved her goal of making New Zealand one of the most hazardous countries in the world in which to be an unborn child. Job done.