privilege - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:03:51 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg privilege - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Poverty hardly looks like privilege https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/08/24/poverty-hardly-looks-like-privilege/ Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:30:22 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=32072

So help me, Hone Harawira is right. It's not the display gangs make of themselves that matters, but the reasons why gangs exist in the first place. That a blue-eyed, pink-skinned, blonde MP, Todd McClay, tagging along after ex-Whanganui mayor Michael Laws, wants gang patches banned, illustrates the ignorance of even intelligent people when they Read more

Poverty hardly looks like privilege... Read more]]> So help me, Hone Harawira is right. It's not the display gangs make of themselves that matters, but the reasons why gangs exist in the first place.

That a blue-eyed, pink-skinned, blonde MP, Todd McClay, tagging along after ex-Whanganui mayor Michael Laws, wants gang patches banned, illustrates the ignorance of even intelligent people when they demand draconian laws against whatever they dislike or don't understand.

I don't like what gangs do either, but I'd be tempted to join Harawira and wear a patch myself in protest against such a dopey idea if the law change ever happens. And when I link McClay's mission to advertising man John Ansell, another pink person, who wants a referendum linked to his 'Colour Blind' campaign, I wonder what planet they live on. Read more

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Rosemary McLeod is a New Zealand journalist

 

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