Author: Dane Giraud

“The history is there for anyone not too lazy, or too ideologically committed, to see” – Dane Giraud

“If Rabin was the last sincere Israeli peacemaker, what was Ehud Barak? Chopped liver?”

Does @PronouncedHare now regret jumping in? Probably not.

William McGimpsey, a prominent voice of the so-called “woke Right” in New Zealand, recently posted on X a condemnation of Ani O’Brien’s open letter to the Helen Clark Foundation, accusing her of engaging in “cancel culture” for calling out Professor Peter Davis’s comments linking the Netanyahu government to rising antisemitism. According to McGimpsey, Davis’s comments […]

“Swarbrick came, quite literally, with one thing in mind: desecration.” – Dane Giraud

A recent post by William McGimpsey reflects a deeply flawed (applaud me for not using skin-deep), ahistorical, and culturally superficial understanding of social cohesion and immigration. McGimpsey seems to argue that racial similarity (specifically being “white British”) guarantees social cohesion. But this claim crumbles under even cursory historical scrutiny. If social cohesion truly followed pigmentation, […]

“… if rules are meant to be broken, censorship deserves to be smashed.” – Dane Giraud

“If law and morality are nothing more than expressions of power, then any claim to justice is merely another assertion of dominance” – Dane Giraud