The stillness of the church, with the flickering candle against the faded artworks, provided the perfect setting for contemplation. However, an empty church also brings a sense of melancholy. Churches are meant to be the gathering places of thriving communities, not the gravesites of fading ones.
If we don’t get this sorted and can’t rely on the police, someone could very well end up dead. This is serious and we cannot sit back and watch violence become the norm.
A community spokesperson (who can expect return visits to the podium) needs to reflect what those in power want promoted. If they don’t, they just can’t expect airtime. The canny ones learn this and adapt accordingly.
No woman associated with any of the worldwide events has been violent or arrested. The violence comes from those who show up to oppose them. When the New Zealand Green Party warns of violence breaking out at the events in New Zealand, what they are actually saying is that those who come to protest this peaceful group will commit violence. It sounds more like a threat than a warning in this context.
The identitarian politics popular on today’s neo-Left has only been able to sustain itself through the avoidance of debate and engagement.
Christchurch is a white straight man in his late 40s, only high school educated, racist, sexist, anti LGBTQi, conservative, who likes to drink beer and is primarily interested in sport.
“Why is it that I am constantly being forced to pick sides when I am not only Māori, but also of Irish, Scottish and Yugoslav descent?” –
Clearly, all is not well at the Ministry of Education, if such radical shifts in claims about basic chemistry (which has been established for 100+ years, and is the same in all countries) are occurring.
Their thirst to punish and publicly shame is the issue, not that they disagree or condemn the subject of their disgust.
The extraordinary take-off of scientific achievement in Europe from around 1500 remains a historic fact – and one that cries out for explanation.