tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post4671493839954791759..comments2024-03-26T10:03:51.827+13:00Comments on Karl du Fresne: The priggish intolerance of supposed liberalsKarl du Fresnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054853925940134404noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-41332788861266121402023-01-25T20:50:39.889+13:002023-01-25T20:50:39.889+13:00What an ugly person.
Thank you for writing this.
I...What an ugly person.<br />Thank you for writing this.<br />I will look out for her.<br />Woke and ugly what a heart value she carries..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-30934928706270721872023-01-21T20:43:50.008+13:002023-01-21T20:43:50.008+13:00Thanks Karl. My response - again in Perspective Ma...Thanks Karl. My response - again in Perspective Mag in London bemoaning the death of civil discourse in this country. <br /><br />https://perspectivemag.co.uk/when-politics-get-too-personal/Joanna Grochowicznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-84197362363852989512023-01-10T20:22:06.442+13:002023-01-10T20:22:06.442+13:00I had heard of neither of these women so I took th...I had heard of neither of these women so I took the trouble to read both articles. I think life is too short to have to wade through such turgid prose. I hope the readers of their novels get greater pleasure. My one comment regarding SG's piece is that like many writers today she finds it necessary (?) to throw in a f**k and f***ing, one unexpurgated, which suggests a paucity of vocabulary. It puzzles me how great writers managed to write enduring works without resort to obscenity. I appreciate your have brought this pair to me attention so I can avoid buying their books by accident.Ben Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06273773374616566109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-60059828662240428282023-01-10T18:23:38.834+13:002023-01-10T18:23:38.834+13:00I've been trolling through Ng Taonga (Archives...I've been trolling through Ng Taonga (Archives). I was intrigued by this statement from Captain Collier of the four masted barque Pamir (which had a mostly New Zealand crew of schoolboys):<br /><br />“..they’re very flattering to their school masters and some of them never had a school master. Some of them had a school mistress”<br /><br />“during the war”<br /><br />“some of them were schooled by a woman teacher”<br /><br />“were they?”<br /><br />And when you think about it the wind powered ships ran on know-how (hierarchy - the Captain was God), muscle and testosterone. The patriarchy makes a lot of sense when you consider the ratio of muscle to production output before modern engines<br /><br /><br />John Hurleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-57819217267357110392023-01-10T15:07:53.024+13:002023-01-10T15:07:53.024+13:00How typical of a heavily Ardern-government subsidi...How typical of a heavily Ardern-government subsidized website to publish a hit piece on those who criticise their cult leader. Yet another example of biased, vile, small minded stuff which typifies Newsroom's writers generally.transpress nzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889609417253751134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-83763034389883793632023-01-10T10:29:18.905+13:002023-01-10T10:29:18.905+13:00Intellectual arguments which some suggest have the...Intellectual arguments which some suggest have their origins in cat fights and sharing saucers of milk.<br /><br />William S Burroughs wrote "Like elephants, Writers, have long vicious memories." <br /><br />Other writers have suggested " Revenge is a dish best served cold" or words to that effect.<br /><br />Meanwhile, all pale into insignificance as Harry the Duke of Sussex is in the spotlight taking Payback to new heights.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Mark Wahlberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17959889940311304180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-29852745624370404152023-01-10T08:03:32.830+13:002023-01-10T08:03:32.830+13:00Yes, this is going on up and down the country amon...Yes, this is going on up and down the country among people of somewhat more modest lifestyles and achievements. Ardern's Praetorian Guard is becoming ever more vicious in their defense of their icon of "empathy" as the polls turn against her and people drift away. An especially toxic venom is reserved for apostates. I have never seen the country more divided. "Citizens for Rowling" and "Rob's Mob" have nothing on this; today's political hatred is visceral and will only intensify the longer Ardern stays in office. Jacinda has divided the country on so many levels, if she had any conscience she would realize this and just go.Odysseushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04745489060434244478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-35475016106811478142023-01-10T07:41:40.897+13:002023-01-10T07:41:40.897+13:00Gregg comes across as the exact clone of what Mela...Gregg comes across as the exact clone of what Melanie Phillips a British journalist, broadcaster and author states about cancel culture and the destruction of reason. That is that, the idea is an absolute.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8gw1T3yo0&t=1s<br /><br />It is an interesting fact that Gregg's article has 6 comments (that I can see) all in support.....whereas Grochowicz has 257 of which almost all support her view.<br /><br />Maybe this is because Grochowicz lives in a critical thinking world, whereas Gregg appears to live in her 'smug cul-de-sac' of pony fantasy land.<br /><br />I recommend the Melanie Phillips youtube video as she explains concisely people like Gregg and her cohorts.Anna Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03495660941246513311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-42531014370225201852023-01-10T06:52:50.220+13:002023-01-10T06:52:50.220+13:00Today's Labour supporters tend to be very poor...Today's Labour supporters tend to be very poor losers, and even worse winners.ihcpcoronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-56334230510565425652023-01-09T21:46:49.315+13:002023-01-09T21:46:49.315+13:00I've read both articles to understand the deba...I've read both articles to understand the debate. Luckily we still have free speech in NZ as you can bet one of those articles (guess which one) would not be tolerated under the 'hate speech' regime Ardern wants to enforce on us.<br />Why is someone so clearly venal as Gregg so important to Newsroom that it published such a nasty and journalistic-debasing (for Newsroom) piece. Greggs recognised forte is writing about girls riding horses, presumably written for young girls who ride or would love to ride horses, a seriously important field to the extent she is profiled in the Newsroom article "..as the author of over 30 pony novels. She is currently working on TV series Poni Poni for Maori TV, and is in full immersion level 5 te reo at Te Wananga o Aoetaroa." - I kid you not! It seems to prove the point from Grochowicz's article that "If democracy is built on the ability to question those in power and hold them to account, then the Kiwi media are wholly complicit in Ardern’s swing from immaculate heart to autocrat."<br />Remembering it was written last February, Grochowicz makes other media related points we are now so familiar with re the Pravda fund and notes "Most recently, opposition leader David Seymour had to turn to the Daily Mail to get an opinion piece printed. This is when silly starts looking sinister.". Putting aside she recognised at such an early point that Seymour had been opposition leader for quite some time, it's a chilling reminder of what we face from this government and our glorious leader - remember, we are the single source of truth.Birdmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-1459216330907468542023-01-09T20:30:36.910+13:002023-01-09T20:30:36.910+13:00Karl:
I'm a writer, an indie one.
Which mean...Karl:<br /><br />I'm a writer, an indie one.<br /><br />Which means I self-publish via Amazon and have readers all over the world.<br /><br />There are two novels to my name so far. A third probably in the middle of the year.<br /><br />I don't think you'd find me duplicitous. Nor woke.<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />- Paul CorriganPaul Corriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02050573122220155635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-29056869695068018502023-01-09T17:59:24.088+13:002023-01-09T17:59:24.088+13:00I don't think it is writers as such that one n...I don't think it is writers as such that one needs to be wary of but the progressive/ woke people. Stacy is just one more of those foot soldiers. They have a very blinkered mindset of what is acceptable. Anyone who goes outside that is denounced as one of the "ists" though sometimes a number of them. All too reminiscent of Peoples Front of Judea and the splitters. <br />The best policy to deal with them is just dismiss their ravings out of hand and ignore. They have alienated so many that their cadre is devouring themselves and are disappearing into irrelevance, soon to join the Social Crediters. Chris Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557217407223228656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-20873128659979648512023-01-09T17:45:33.923+13:002023-01-09T17:45:33.923+13:00" They can be a spiteful, duplicitous and dis..." They can be a spiteful, duplicitous and disputatious lot, and you can never be sure the friendship won’t come back to bite you."<br /><br />A pretty fair description of most ardernists these days.Gary Petersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-47856479113957278302023-01-09T14:06:23.082+13:002023-01-09T14:06:23.082+13:00Former media colleagues at what is now Stuff, and ...Former media colleagues at what is now Stuff, and some who have long since left but are still ''media'' in one way or another , react similarly to Gregg. Personal experience, the slightest in my case mere questioning of anything to do with the Labour-Green-''Maori Party'' blocPaul Petershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06436937288807192352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-46211253081044390142023-01-09T13:53:27.956+13:002023-01-09T13:53:27.956+13:00Stacy Gregg was a journalist somewhere or another ...Stacy Gregg was a journalist somewhere or another where I worked; I do recall her being there.<br /><br />I had no idea she had become a children's author, despite having three kids of my own and buying them many a book including many NZ ones. David McLoughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07572242600889192661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-42693814778615302452023-01-09T13:26:16.590+13:002023-01-09T13:26:16.590+13:00I have noticed in the last couple of weeks and ama...I have noticed in the last couple of weeks and amazing about face from our media when talking about other countries putting recent restrictions on China. Our media make accusations of racism from foreign governments. I suspect if our Government had also introduced restrictions then it would have been described as a good decision. Philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-4923264067115094462023-01-09T12:58:29.549+13:002023-01-09T12:58:29.549+13:00Wow !!!
Bitchy, bitchy, bitchy.
Hell hath no fury...Wow !!!<br />Bitchy, bitchy, bitchy.<br /><br />Hell hath no fury like Ardern supporter scornedDoug Longmirenoreply@blogger.com