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Also, here is a picture of a road cone on top of the tallest tree I can see from my balcony.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
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Diane Revoluta: Response from the New Zealand Herald
I have received the following response to my complaint to the New Zealand Herald. Needless to say, I do not find this satisfactory; I think Holmes’ article clearly DOES intend to be a commentary on all Māori people, and — sorry New Zealand Herald — but Holmes’ rant was hateful and bigoted,…
Last week wasn’t the first time a Paul Holmes article filled me with rage
I am so happy at the recent outpouring of disgust levelled at Paul Holmes’ article on Waitangi Day — http://www.nzherald.co.nz/paul-holmes-on-new-zealand/news/article.cfm?c_id=1502869&objectid=10784735. The article brought back memories for me — last year, Paul Holmes wrote a similarly infuriating piece wherein he tries to tell Muslim women what to wear while living in New Zealand — http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10737262
I wrote a response for a class I was taking — Race and Racism at Home and Abroad with Robbie Shilliam at Victoria University, Wellington. I had a basic thesis but was struggling with something to tie my work together… and then Holmes came along and ruined my day / saved my essay.
//The following work is the property of Mothla Majeed. Please do not reproduce, even in part, without the author’s permission.//
Introduction
When issuing commentary on Islam, mainstream New Zealand news media has an alarmingly striking tendency to focus on a fictitious, “monolithic”[i] incarnation of Islam, the symbolic order of which ostensibly represents decadence, despotism, barbarism, and gendered oppression. Such a representation of Islam stands in stark contrast to conceptions of Western Christianity, which is seen as rational and intelligent,[ii] and capable of privately existing as separate from a secular, ‘modern’ Western state. Meanwhile, Islam, and what it apparently represents, is constructed as permeating all aspects of an adherent’s life; this “reductive” view of Islam effectively asserts that Islam “draws no distinction between religion and politics”,[iii] in contrast to a state espousing secular liberal values that manages exist as separate from religion.
