Thank goodness for Judith Collins. Unlike her leader Todd Muller she knows how to take the fight to the enemy and how to react to woke identity politics.
The reality is that no matter how woke or left Todd Muller appears to be, the media and Labour will still attempt to frame him as an extremist, a racist, a white supremacist, a Nazi and far-right. It doesn’t matter if he is actually as wet as a puddle; he cannot win by trying to out-woke or out-left the left.
The fact that media commentators on the left framed Simon Bridges as right-wing shows how pointless it is to try to be seen as centre-right. The narrative will always be that you are right-wing, no matter what your credentials are, if you are in the National party.
Todd Muller could wear hemp underwear, protest climate change and be in a relationship with a transgender woman with the birth name Bob, and he would still be accused of the worst excesses of conservatism, so he may as well stand up to them like Judith Collins has.
I am sick to death of the constant racism towards white people, the put-downs, and the lack of equality. Only recently we revealed that if you have white skin you will not be at the top of the list for surgery, as in Auckland they are prioritising people based not on their circumstances and need but on their ethnicity. That is disgusting, and the racial discrimination should be a front-page story, yet only Stuff have picked the story up and the Human Rights Commission has remained silent.
Judith Collins hasn’t taken the racist put-downs meted out to her lying down. She has taken the fight to the enemy and called them out for their racism.
Tensions flared over race relations again today at Parliament with outspoken National MP Judith Collins saying she was “sick of being demonised” for her ethnicity.
[…] Collins pushed back, asking reporters if there was “something wrong” her with being white.
[…] the committee chair Labour’s Deborah Russell chipping in calling it “a white girl comment – crikey“.
“Oh no”, shot back Collins,”it’s actually someone who is utterly sick of being demonised for my ethnicity thank-you very much.”
[…] Tamaki Makaurau MP Peeni Henare hit back at Collins and said she had no right to say she was being ‘demonised’.
What an arrogant prick! (pardon my French). It is slaves that have no rights. By saying that Judith Collins doesn’t have the right to stand up for herself and to protest racist treatment, he is showing what a died in the wool racist he really is.
“When Ms Collins is more likely to live in poverty, to end up in prison, to be stopped to have her bags checked in a shop even though her Pakeha mates are not, then maybe she can claim to be demonised for her culture, but not now.
rnz.co.nz/news/political/417671/judith-collins-sick-of-being-demonised-for-her-ethnicity
When Peeni Henare is more likely to miss out on a spot at university because of the colour of his skin despite having higher grades than others that got in, when he is pushed to the bottom of the surgery waiting list because of his ethnicity and when he cannot gather in a large group to farewell a dead loved one or set up roadblocks to protect his community because the police don’t look the other way for people with his skin colour, then maybe he can claim to be a victim of racism.
All racism is bad. The idea that racism can only happen to brown people is as false as it is condescending. Judith Collins and Peeni Henare both should be judged by the contents of their character not the colour of their skin. The left’s willful blindness regarding racism towards white people is and has always been completely unacceptable.
Judith Collins is right to stand up to racism and to refuse to play the divisive identity politics game.
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