Stuff have been busy trying to whip up extremist hysteria again. Nothing quite like creating your own stories so you can have something to write about!
Auckland landlord’s ‘non-stir fry cooking’ ad is racial discrimination – TradeMe
Stuff and Nonsense. Dec 16th
I was excited to learn all about who this despicable racist landlord was, so I delved into the fetid internet-based swamp that is stuff.co.nz.
Thereupon I was informed that some guy had placed an ad on TradeMe looking for a tenant for his small townhouse in Mt Roskill. No problem you might suspect, but no, that landlord is evil I tell you. This hideous excuse for a landlord had the gall to specify that he preferred to have “Non stir-fry cooking method tenants”. Whatever that is!
So Stuff, being the ultimate arbiters of all that is racist and white supremacist, decided to contact TradeMe to complain about the ad, presuming I guess that they thought that they were fighting the good fight on behalf of all those poor Indian people out there, who must be who the landlord was referring to. Or was it Asian people, who would know? Clearly it was all about sneakily advertising for a Whitey anyway as no Pakeha has ever been known to cook up a stir-fry!
But how I guffawed when I read further and found out that the obstinate landlord was in fact an Asian himself, one that cooks up his own stir-frys no less.
“I’m actually Asian. I cook stir fries. I know they are oily.”
“John”, the landlord.
TradeMe, of course, advised that they hadn’t actually received any complaints about the ad (possibly because only a mindless twat could ever find offence about not wanting your kitchen covered in oil), but caving in quicker than Simon could say, “I agree with Labour”, TradeMe removed the offending line from the ad and contacted poor John to let him know that he was an evil, white supremacist scumbag and his ads were not welcome in our diverse land.
So anyway, this is the new normal. If your news business is going down the tubes, just find something you can call racist (literally, anything will do), take faux offence at it, make a complaint about your faux offence and then write a story to try and sell more clicks.
Now, what should I have for tea tonight? It was going to be Thai but I guess that’s out now. Sorry Stuff, I will change my evil racist ways, I promise, maybe I can have a curry instead?
Oh bugger, I think I’m going to be really hungry!