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NZ First leader Winston Peters declares 'war on woke' (www.1news.co.nz)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Winston and Seymour are in competition to see which one can be the Trump of NZ.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Christ I knew they had their hooks into you NZ but I didn't think it was that bad already.

woof. Y'all need to take out the trash pronto.

And that means no Xitter, no facebook, no Instacrap. Anyone using those things is abetting the destruction of all that is good.

Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed are wonderful things. Enjoy those.

Yes, fine, also bluesky I guess. I dunno.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's some fairly large amount of NZers that interact on the daily (some on the hourly) with Facebook. I dip in from time to time to read what people are saying just to try to keep some perspective on why it seems so many of my fellow citizens have such strange ideas.

For the most part replies and discussion on just about any topic are full of false assumptions, minimal facts, naked and unquestioned bias (x is always bad no matter what, y always good etc) and then the usual racism, misogyny and nastiness. This sort of crap from Winston appeals to that sort of folk, really he's just targetting a little lower and more broadly than his usual tactic of talking to the 70+ old white racists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's some fairly large amount of NZers that interact on the daily (some on the hourly) with Facebook.

I have no doubt. This will mean the utter victory of the right wing fascists, backed by broligarch billionaire Peter Thiel, et. al.

It’s that simple. It’s been tried-and-true since at least 2016. Kill it with fire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you are taking some copium if you think this kind of rhetoric only appeals to 70+ old white racists.

There are hundreds of thousands of younger racists who also love this message.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's what im saying; the old plain white racists are dying off, so he's pivoting to outrage amongst young males instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's a rich field to mine in NZ.