OPINION
Mr Peters used hyperbole: the N-word. He plays the media using rhetoric exactly as someone teases a kitten with a laser. My, oh my. They are so stupid. The kitten loses interest after five minutes, and the NZ press still can’t get a grip on themselves forty-eight hours later:
As a result of their equally hyperbolic over-reaction and pathetic pollie vs pollie ping-pong in searching for ever-pettier sound-bites, Peters’ speech on the Herald‘s YouTube stream has now been viewed 19,000 times, received (close to) 600 upvotes and generated 300+ almost unanimously supportive comments, perfectly illustrating the media’s cultural disconnect with their audience.
Perhaps, NZ media, people want to hear what he said, and in full context: it’s your job to bring that to us, but since you’re not interested in doing that, instead only interested in demonising the fellow, we have to do it for you:
And the insidious creep of racist go-governance that had spread through legislation and the public sector; everywhere! All the way to the Real Estate Licensing provisions. Everywhere. Manipulated. No manifesto coverage; no campaign, just under-the-radar dirt of this type, and what were the media saying about it? Deafening zero!
And, y’know ladies and gentlemen, we’re never going to make it out of this demise if we tolerate that sort of behaviour. Over and over again, or when you have your say – there’s something dramatically wrong here, not just about the policy, but about their lack of warning – they shout: “racist”.
Not just ideological theory, it was race-based theory: where some people’s DNA made them, sadly, according to these people, and condoned by their cultural fellow-travellers, their DNA made them somehow better than others. I’ve seen that sort of philosophy before: I saw it in [N-word] Germany, we all did. We’ve seen it elsewhere throughout the world in the horrors of history, but right here in this country tolerated by those whose job it is to keep the system honest, this happened. Where some people’s DNA made them better than others. The left had simply run roughshod over society, and the people of New Zealand, with ideas and plans they had never, ever, campaigned on.
Y’know this is time for reflection. Ladies and gentlemen, we can’t fix this country: until we acknowledge what is wrong with it.
And, y’know, ladies, gentlemen, and in-betweens of the press: you won’t fix your industry until you acknowledge what’s wrong with it. While you see Mr Peters trampling over, and giving the fingers to, ‘Decency in NZ’, we see you trampling over, and giving the fingers to, ‘Objectivity’.