Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 23, 2019 11:03:00 GMT 12
NZHerald 23/3/19 (A quick word section)
Linking the mosque shooter to a “dark underbelly of racism and white superiority in New Zealand” is a long bow to draw. It smells as if someone is politicising this tragedy.
W. CLARK, RD Pukekohe
Anne Salmond: critic and conscience of our society.
CATHIE HUTCHINSON, Mt Albert.
Tame Iti is now activist in residence at Massey University. Given his past history of firing firearms in public, is this appropriate?
NEVILLE CAMERON, Coromandel.
I was a white supremacist of the kind Dame Susan Devoy and Dame Anne Salmond despise but since all those Asian kids started winning most of academia’s prizes I’ve had to eat humble pie. Does that bring me into the fold or am I still beyond the pale?
KERRY CRAIG, Mt Eden.
The Press 23/3/19
WISDOM
I agree with Professor Jonathan Scott's opinion. I think Gary Glover and Dame Anne Salmond need to pull their respective heads in.
They need to get some of Jacinda Ardern's wisdom. This is not the time or the place for reactionary historical revisionism.
Let's not forget anger was what fuelled this horror. I do hope and pray that political correctness and emotive reactions to this horror won't cloud sound Judgment, nor the love and compassion we all need at this time.
JOHN BEACH, Sydenham
DANGEROUS
Gary Glover (Mar 22) comes close to using a tragedy of unique proportions to promote his own agendas. There is reference to our city as being "long known for it's neo-Nazi-style white supremacist and White nationalist movements".
Yet it was my experience, based on working for Corrections for 40 years, that the members of white power gangs were an obnoxious minority who were not a serious threat to the public. In fact, Christchurch Prison has not seen such offenders "for years", so I am told.
It is not only wrong to describe Christchurch in this way but dangerous.
No doubt there is a minority who hold White supremacist views: they use the Internet to promote their baleful opinions. But such individuals are not confined to Christchurch and the evidence so far indicates the alleged offender was acting on his own.
BRUCE ANDERSON, St Albans
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
Linking the mosque shooter to a “dark underbelly of racism and white superiority in New Zealand” is a long bow to draw. It smells as if someone is politicising this tragedy.
W. CLARK, RD Pukekohe
Anne Salmond: critic and conscience of our society.
CATHIE HUTCHINSON, Mt Albert.
Tame Iti is now activist in residence at Massey University. Given his past history of firing firearms in public, is this appropriate?
NEVILLE CAMERON, Coromandel.
I was a white supremacist of the kind Dame Susan Devoy and Dame Anne Salmond despise but since all those Asian kids started winning most of academia’s prizes I’ve had to eat humble pie. Does that bring me into the fold or am I still beyond the pale?
KERRY CRAIG, Mt Eden.
The Press 23/3/19
WISDOM
I agree with Professor Jonathan Scott's opinion. I think Gary Glover and Dame Anne Salmond need to pull their respective heads in.
They need to get some of Jacinda Ardern's wisdom. This is not the time or the place for reactionary historical revisionism.
Let's not forget anger was what fuelled this horror. I do hope and pray that political correctness and emotive reactions to this horror won't cloud sound Judgment, nor the love and compassion we all need at this time.
JOHN BEACH, Sydenham
DANGEROUS
Gary Glover (Mar 22) comes close to using a tragedy of unique proportions to promote his own agendas. There is reference to our city as being "long known for it's neo-Nazi-style white supremacist and White nationalist movements".
Yet it was my experience, based on working for Corrections for 40 years, that the members of white power gangs were an obnoxious minority who were not a serious threat to the public. In fact, Christchurch Prison has not seen such offenders "for years", so I am told.
It is not only wrong to describe Christchurch in this way but dangerous.
No doubt there is a minority who hold White supremacist views: they use the Internet to promote their baleful opinions. But such individuals are not confined to Christchurch and the evidence so far indicates the alleged offender was acting on his own.
BRUCE ANDERSON, St Albans
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers