Free Speech Union Bullshit

Both of these incidents involve the deliberate targeting of the LGBTQi community. You would have to work pretty hard to look at these two examples and say “ah ha, but actually this is the same thing”.

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Kyle Church
In 2022, Mainstream Cinema Took Aim at the Powerful but not Power

After a rough couple of years, it’s an absolute relief that 2022 brought with it a full slate of movies, mostly unimpeded by COVID! If you look beyond the glut of Marvels, Jurassics and Minionses, it has been a solid year for cinema with really strong Hollywood and international blockbusters, decent Oscar hopefuls and some truly astounding arthouse and genre fare.

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Kyle Church
Disinformation Studies – A Dismal Cold War Science 

The current malaise around tech platforms and our democracy has come to be understood as primarily a question of disinformation. Government agencies, Silicon Valley NGOs and research centers have been crucial in channeling our disgust with unaccountable tech-oligarchs into a singular preoccupation with truth.

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Kyle Church
Are Profits Driving Inflation in NZ?

Inflation is hammering much of the world and working people are on the receiving end twice, both in terms of increasing costs of living and tighter monetary policy pushing up mortgage rates and the cost of commercial borrowing

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Kyle Church
The Media Crime Narrative

We have been inundated lately with stories about guns, gangs, drug seizures, murders, violent robberies, and the current flavours of the month: youth crime and ram raids. Scarcely a week goes by where there aren't multiple sensational headlines making claims about some kind of crime wave.

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Kyle Church
The Inflation Inkblot

With the release of quarterly figures highlighting New Zealand’s domestic version of the global cost of living crisis, a more overtly politicised tone has begun to dominate local news coverage of inflation.

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Kyle Church
Critter Race Theory: Why is your HR department obsessed with evolutionary psychology?

As organisations like NZ Police, Oranga Tamariki and The Ministry of Health grapple with their own racism, the Public Service Commission has been implementing the Papa Pounamu ‘diversity and inclusion’ work programme. Priority Area 2 of Papa Pounamu: ‘Te Urupare i te Mariu | Addressing Bias’ says organisations “can and should be addressing bias and discrimination in all its forms”.

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Kyle Church
Criticism & Hope

It can be tempting to decide that someone who, blithely oblivious, is standing alongside white-supremacists, anti-semites, and proto-fascists, is too far gone. For some, that might be true. For many, they’re being hoodwinked and used, and if we care about them (and we have the spoons) I believe we should reach out in whatever ways we can.

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Kyle Church
Housing at Any Cost?

The battle lines have been drawn, on Twitter, facebook, and in Council planning meetings. We are either pro-intensification, or we don’t care about equitable housing. This forced and simplistic dichotomy makes any debate about how we do intensification, often very difficult to have.

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Kyle Church