Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 31, 2020 12:03:36 GMT 12
Weekend Sun / Sunlive 31/1/20
A BALANCED VIEW NEEDED
It is time that the population awoke from the ‘woke’ philosophy that is presently controlling the country with the approval of Government, ethnic groups and the media.
Identity politics is running rampant in its most insidious form in much of the media and so has enabled specific groups to use race, gender and/or sexual orientation to promote their group’s aspirations without regard for the rights of individuals or society as a whole.
The main media press has become a haven for ‘wokeness’.
The Herald regularly provides opinion pieces by feminist, ethnic and homosexual individuals to labour their grievances and report on considered social injustices while it does not publish those with contrary opinions. Is this this how free speech is regarded by the print media in a democracy?
B JOHNSON, Omokoroa.
OCEAN SANCTUARY URGENCY
The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill is about to go through its second reading.
This action would permanently protect endangered species and provide a refuge twice the size of New Zealand.
It should have been completed in 2017 when it was taken over from Nick Smith and transferred to David Parker who put it at the bottom of his agenda. Smith was concerned that New Zealand was not pulling its weight and that other countries have all set aside significant areas of the Pacific for marine conservation.
To establish the Kermadec Oceans Sanctuary is to show the world that New Zealand genuinely cares about the guardianship of our natural habitat.
This is not a matter to consult with iwi who have patently never been there nor with any other ethnic group, but about the Government taking responsibility for its own actions in creating a magnificent marine reserve.
I urge readers to write to all political parties asking them to be accountable for all people of this country and the world and to shepherd this Bill through the House with all due urgency.
R STEPHENS, Papamoa Beach.
A BALANCED VIEW NEEDED
It is time that the population awoke from the ‘woke’ philosophy that is presently controlling the country with the approval of Government, ethnic groups and the media.
Identity politics is running rampant in its most insidious form in much of the media and so has enabled specific groups to use race, gender and/or sexual orientation to promote their group’s aspirations without regard for the rights of individuals or society as a whole.
The main media press has become a haven for ‘wokeness’.
The Herald regularly provides opinion pieces by feminist, ethnic and homosexual individuals to labour their grievances and report on considered social injustices while it does not publish those with contrary opinions. Is this this how free speech is regarded by the print media in a democracy?
B JOHNSON, Omokoroa.
OCEAN SANCTUARY URGENCY
The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill is about to go through its second reading.
This action would permanently protect endangered species and provide a refuge twice the size of New Zealand.
It should have been completed in 2017 when it was taken over from Nick Smith and transferred to David Parker who put it at the bottom of his agenda. Smith was concerned that New Zealand was not pulling its weight and that other countries have all set aside significant areas of the Pacific for marine conservation.
To establish the Kermadec Oceans Sanctuary is to show the world that New Zealand genuinely cares about the guardianship of our natural habitat.
This is not a matter to consult with iwi who have patently never been there nor with any other ethnic group, but about the Government taking responsibility for its own actions in creating a magnificent marine reserve.
I urge readers to write to all political parties asking them to be accountable for all people of this country and the world and to shepherd this Bill through the House with all due urgency.
R STEPHENS, Papamoa Beach.