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  1. New misogyny same as the old misogyny

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 12:38 pm, October 17th, 2021 -  140 comments
    Categories: feminism, sexism, violence against women
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    At the largest feminist conference in Europe, with a major focus on male violence against women, gender identity activists chose to protest with sexualised violent language and imagery.

  2. Women, the Taliban and sex based rights

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 10:38 am, August 16th, 2021 -  66 comments
    Categories: afghanistan, feminism, gender critical feminism
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    What is being done to women in Afghanistan by the Taliban is sex-based oppression.

  3. Oppose this new hate speech bill

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:43 am, June 26th, 2021 -  206 comments
    Categories: human rights, International, labour, uncategorized, United Nations
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    Hate speech is about to get a lot more criminalised with much stronger penalties. It’s worth going back to what the Royal Commission actually considered, since that’s the basis of proposing this law. The Royal Commission in fact found that trying to protect religion from very strong opinions is simply not a good idea: … we acknowledge that there […]

  4. Free Speech.

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 11:32 am, July 11th, 2018 -  179 comments
    Categories: censorship, human rights, liberalism, Politics, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, useless
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    It’s a principle.

  5. Chloe King – John Key, I am a low waged worker, and neither “lazy” nor “drug addled”

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:39 pm, September 9th, 2016 -  254 comments
    Categories: business, class, jobs, john key, national, paula bennett, Politics, same old national, unemployment, wages, workers' rights
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    Blogger and social activist Chloe King, one of the hundreds of thousands of low waged workers in this country was devastated by John Key’s comments suggesting that she and others were lazy and had no work ethic. This is her response.