Politicians and media keep shouting about the “imported culture war” - but they never define what it is.
Here’s some examples
And here’s some more examples
· Emily Writes from left-wing The Spinoff says that opposition to the Treaty Principles Bill is importing culture wars to grasp power
· Helen Clark doesn’t want imported culture wars. She wants DEI
· Chris Hipkins ruled out working with NZ First in 2023. He’s not fighting imported culture wars. Nope – he lost
· Journalist Michelle Duff says imported culture wars punished women like Jacinda
· Being able to define a woman is importation of global culture wars. No – it’s not just basic biology, apparently
· Labour’s Jan Tinetti says the removal of the radical & sexually explicit RSE in schools is an imported culture war
· Christopher Luxon certainly doesn’t want to protect the unborn child – that would be importing a culture war apparently
· Bilingual signs is an imported culture war according to this commentator – go figure
· This Stuff journalist says that the election won’t be about imported culture wars – whatever those are
· And Chloe from the Greens says that opposition to the Treaty Principles bill is a desperate, divisive, imported culture war.
Phew!
There’s certainly no shortage.
Here’s the problem. They never define what the “culture war” is. They just use the phrase to shut down the debate.
We don’t want it because we don’t like it and we’re struggling to come up with good reasons to show you why we don’t like it.
But who actually is importing the culture wars?
You may not be surprised – but it’s actually not social conservatives.
Here’s a list:
Remember the push for EUTHANASIA. That was an imported culture war from Switzerland, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands and the states of Oregon & Washington, Montana, and Vermont, and the state of Victoria. All thrown up as setting the precedent.
Our law was modelled on these overseas places. Yep – an imported culture war.
What about GAY MARRIAGE – Barak Obama suddenly changed his mind and said yes, and suddenly…
Within two months, our then-Prime Minister John Key also suddenly supported it (having made no indication that he did before this and actually voting against civil unions in 2004).
Yep – the whole push was coming from the US. Isn’t that an imported culture war.
Or maybe we were importing it from the other handful of countries that have perverted the definition of marriage - France Sweden South Africa, Canada, Belgium Netherlands Spain Norway Sweden.
Definitely imported eh
Then there was CANNABIS.
When the debate first started, Chloe tried to suggest that Colorado had done it and it was perfect.
Yes she was importing the culture war
The Druggie Foundation claimed that Canada and Portugal were perfect examples. When we showed them it wasn’t, then they said – what about Uruguay then? Or Netherlands.
A classic imported culture war – which they lost.
Here’s a funny thing. Just last year, because they still haven’t stopped sulking about losing the referendum…
More than 150 experts have signed an open letter to the Government calling for the legalisation of all drugs in New Zealand.
"The letter includes 155 signatures from experts in drug policy and criminology including professors, academics, researchers, clinicians and health professionals."
So I don’t know about you but that sounds like 155 “experts” in the drug field in NZ. But further down, right near the very end it admits
Signatures include those from eight professors, 31 doctors, 29 organisations and supported by experts from 14 countries across North America, South America, South Africa, Europe and Australasia.
But then you look at the full list of signatories.
Of the organisations, only 10 out of the 29 are NZ organisations – so a 1/3rd.
In fact, (shock horror) three of them are American – and you know what they say about NZ groups importing culture wars from the US.
Classic
Who could forget ABORTION. Roe v Wade was passed in 1973. Ironically by these 9 men
MEN! Who aren’t supposed to be allowed to have an opinion on abortion – unless the pro-death side agree with it eh.
Here’s a NZ protest. Guess what year this was taken. Yep 1973.
Talk about importing a US culture war eh.
Four years later in 1977, we had the Contraception, Sterilisation & Abortion Act which effectively gave us abortion on demand.
The lead radical abortion group ALRANZ even had an American lobbyist Terry Bellamak to take the lead.
Yes – even the NZ spokesperson was imported!!!
In fact, here she is getting mighty upset about a US abortion case. It’s America, Terry. Stop importing the culture wars into NZ.
DRAG QUEENS
Here’s an interesting admission - by the drg queens themselves. Reading in libraries was specifically imported from the US. The opposition isn’t the imported part as we were told.
But remember – the opposition was imported by…. colonisation?
According to Benjamin Doyle….
A hate, I might add, that was imported to Aotearoa by colonisation.
OK this is just getting confusing
CONVERSION THERAPY
Well we could have imported that one from Brazil, Malta, Germany, Canada, France, or Queensland or Victoria or any of the 25+ US states that have banned the therapy which they struggle to define and can’t actually find any examples of abusive practices happening.
But you don’t need casualties for the radical left to justify importing the cultural war eh
And I wont tell you about the American groups which made submissions to the Select Committee supporting the conversion therapy law eh. No we don’t want to import their culture wars.
Oh – unless they agree with it.
BLACK LIVES MATTER
Here’s a real doozy. Remember the George Floyd case in the US. And the resulting ‘Black Lives Matter’ in the US protests.
Guess what ended up in New Zealand.
Yep – we imported that culture war to NZ. That movement which had as one of its chartered aims to destroy the nuclear family.
NZ just couldn’t get enough importing of that one
Heck – even some woke churches in NZ imported that culture war from the US.
And if you’re talking about a war, this was certainly one.
DEFUND THE POLICE
According to the New York Times,
In the years before his death, a Minneapolis group called MPD150 had been building grass roots support for a “police-free future” — a vision that contemplated a phased end to conventional policing by making dramatic investments in housing and social services.
Then supported by none other than Kamala Harris!
Great logic there eh
Guess who imported that culture war to NZ? None other than Green MP Tamatha Paul. Police abolition.
VIDEO
Wow – that’s certainly an import, isn’t it.
CLIMATE CHANGE HYSTERIA
Remember Al Gore?
And our friends at the woeful The Spinoff and the NZ Herald journalist Simon Wilson. Boy – they really imported that hysteria, didn’t’ they
Gore said there was a 75% chance the entire north polar ice cap would likely be gone by 2016.
He used horrifying footage from 2005's Hurricane Katrina, and suggested that climate change was the cause of frequent and more intense hurricanes. But since then, hurricane frequency has decreased, and the storms' intensity hasn't yet grown significantly.
PALESTINIAN ACTIVISM
Then there’s the imported protests of Hamas
From the River to the Sea
Who’s importing that one? Oh yeah the Greens of course.
DEI
Yes diversity equity inclusion.
It’s been around since the 60s and 70s under the well-intentioned Civil Rights Act of 1964 – primarily around racial discrimination.
But it really took off in 2020. What happened then? BLM of course. And according to an analysis by CNN:
[George] Floyd’s murder renewed the push for DEI leadership roles and initiatives at major corporations. Between 2019 and 2022, chief diversity and inclusion officer roles grew by 168.9%, a LinkedIn analysis found.
But then everyone figured out that it was being used to ram down LGBT agendas, and push racist agendas, and arbitrarily assigned roles of ‘oppressor’ and ‘oppressed’ groups, and intersectionality.
Critical theory in other words.
But guess who imported it.
Yep – the media and the radical left in NZ imported the culture war.
So what is the “imported culture wars” mantra really about?
Because those yelling it the most seem to be the ones most guilty of doing the “importing”.
It’s what they call “jamming”.
The jamming process is designed to make you think that you have to fully embrace the other side otherwise you’re part of a fringe belief – and you get labelled a bigot, a phobe, a faaaaaar right radical, even…. a Nazi!
Sound familiar?
What’s the ultimate goal when they scream at you “we don’t want imported culture wars”?
They simply want you to shut up.
They have no good argument, so they just want to discredit you with a negative label.
They don’t want to debate. They just want to shut you down. Diversity and inclusion are important – but only if the radical left agree with you.
The real issue is not about “imported culture wars” – because the other side seem pretty keen to do exactly that.
The real question is – have they made you go silent?
Don’t let them.
Wow! Yeah! 😵💫
Very impressive analysis, thanks Bob!