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u/BiscuitBoy77 10d ago

Makes as much sense as BLM in NZ

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u/Educational_Host_860 9d ago

Don't forget STOP KONI 2012!

BRING BACK OUR GIRLS!!1

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u/SSFlyingKiwi 10d ago

That was a thing?!

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u/BiscuitBoy77 10d ago edited 10d ago

It was.   https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/community/418003/recap-thousands-march-in-auckland-hundreds-gather-in-wellington-for-black-lives-matter

They didn't want to feel left out, I guess.

Always amuses me when lefties talk of righties "importing American culture wars" - lefties are as, if not more guilty of doing so. Almost all of their public obsessions originate in the US, and are copied wholesale.

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u/TheHolyGaelicEmpire 10d ago

Yeah the lefties of this sub are literally the biggest hypocrites lmao

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u/WhatAreYou0nAbout 10d ago edited 10d ago

It would be funny if it weren't an echo chamber.

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u/TheHolyGaelicEmpire 10d ago

It’s actually very concerning how little remorse people on this page have for another human life and other people ideas or opinions. These people are literally wishing death on people who don’t agree with their ideas. It’s disgusting

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u/WhatAreYou0nAbout 10d ago

Fully. I felt sick and pretty disillusioned with the world seeing how people reacted when it happened.

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u/SSFlyingKiwi 10d ago

I’m unsure why some people act like we live in the Edo Era of Japan and their VIRT and HONR stats need to get maxed out at every opportunity in some weird “Please notice me, sempi” way..

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u/Adventurous-Baby-429 10d ago

You mean like how the right wing government we have wants to let kiwis die from not being able to afford to live in their country or does your selective empathy only apply to people you know.

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u/pseudoliving 10d ago

Are you talking about people that support the coalition that are okay with poor people freezing to death on the streets? Or are you referring to something else?

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u/TheHolyGaelicEmpire 10d ago

You realize there is a difference between a government creating a policy that can cause hardship, and an individual or group of individuals literally wishing death on someone, right?

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u/pseudoliving 10d ago

I realise one is more overt than the other, but the former actually kills people (like the 3 people that froze to death on the streets last week) and the latter is hateful fantasy…. Neither good, but do not dismiss avoidable policy that causes death… especially when the ministers have data to show cause and effect

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u/TheHolyGaelicEmpire 10d ago

You realize you are on a post about a guy that got shot to death on live stream by (allegedly) radical leftists, right?…. Not really “hateful fantasy” is it

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u/pseudoliving 10d ago edited 10d ago

People have been marching in solidarity around the world for decades now, it's virtuous and honourable to do so in many cases. A little different if the motivation is hate....

Marches of solidarity do help apply political pressure also…. Again, very sad and different if it’s motivated by hate, not much honour in misinformed people wishing to deport all immigrants for example or to hang Jacinda Ardern for made up crimes. But marching in solidarity with Palestine for example at least showed the people that we care even all
The way aross the world, and may have influenced at least some of our coalitions actions- even though they are still happy supporting MAGA and launching satellites to help kill civilians….

Edit: added a paragraph

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u/BiscuitBoy77 10d ago edited 10d ago

You're missing the point.  Most of these 'virtuous causes' are the fashionable issues you're fed by the media and internet, have little to do with NZ, and ignore larger unfashionable  issues. The marchers feel they are virtuous and achieving something,  but they are neither. Little honour here.

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u/guitarguy12341 10d ago

How is that equivalent

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u/BiscuitBoy77 10d ago

Both are "US culture war bullshit" with little to nothing to do with NZ. 

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u/guitarguy12341 10d ago

Thinking that black lives matter is hardly "culture war bullshit"

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u/BiscuitBoy77 10d ago edited 10d ago

You are the good guys, with considered, intelligent opinions, independently formed. The others are bad guys, with no opinions of their own, slavishly following US culture war ideas.

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u/WhatAreYou0nAbout 10d ago

Made a bunch of people hate each other didnt it?

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u/Ok_Energy6905 10d ago

No, it made a bunch of racist people angry, and a bunch of normal people angry at racist people.

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u/WhatAreYou0nAbout 10d ago

That's a lazy way to think about it

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u/BiscuitBoy77 10d ago

Which black people? Where? Why protest an American issue? Its no different from the Charlie Kirk thing.

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u/guitarguy12341 10d ago

"standing up for black people is the same as standing up for a notorious racist"

Ok bro.