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8230; collectively crafted over coffee in an effort to spread discomfort …. Occupy Wall Street: The power of words. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Occupy Wall Street is a fast growing movement. The Opiate of Hope. Young, damaged gangsters like child soldiers, says MP. The promise of Mana, truth telling, and the struggle of ideas. Steve Biko, Cape Town 1971. An old post pulled from my facebook pa...
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Young, damaged gangsters like child soldiers, says MP | Turangawaewae
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8230; collectively crafted over coffee in an effort to spread discomfort …. Young, damaged gangsters like child soldiers, says MP. By Bearer of discomfort on October 5, 2011. LONDON: Young members of Britain’s criminal gangs are so damaged by the violence of their lifestyle that they resemble the child soldiers of the Third World, a British MP said. British Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith. They are completely mentally broken. They have no concept of empathy. Or socialising or understanding. While it is...
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Bearers of Discomfort | Turangawaewae
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8230; collectively crafted over coffee in an effort to spread discomfort …. By Bearer of discomfort on June 25, 2012. If being such, means. Sinks in and resonates. And the truth of it. Is not only found. But by the scientist. Then ours is the earth. The discomfort is yours. M Whaitiri Mikaere (c) April 26th 2012. Having been quiet for some time now, it seems cheating to borrow someone else’s words. But does it really matter if the kaupapa matches and those words are fantastic? Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Out of a liberal’s Africa | Turangawaewae
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8230; collectively crafted over coffee in an effort to spread discomfort …. Out of a liberal’s Africa. By Bearer of discomfort on October 27, 2011. Misinformation about Africa has become a growth industry in the West. I think I need a new category called ‘pissed off’ pieces. Cos every now and then. Likenesses or images, are not merely a re-presentation or distortion of reality; they function to hide the fact there’s. No reality to stand in for. Wild, bestial, savage – in need of taming, read: must ...
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Downing the Brown: When two tribes go to war | Turangawaewae
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8230; collectively crafted over coffee in an effort to spread discomfort …. Downing the Brown: When two tribes go to war. By Bearer of discomfort on November 12, 2011. Representations of Māori in the media. 8220;The processes of colonization attack us in our most sensitive areas:. In the way we perceive ourselves. Blind to the way those perceptions have been constructed for us initially”. Spokane poet and scholar, Gloria Bird, 1993. A Tear in the Matrix. I’ve written about Africa. Outside of such dominan...
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The promise of Mana, truth telling, and the struggle of ideas | Turangawaewae
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8230; collectively crafted over coffee in an effort to spread discomfort …. The promise of Mana, truth telling, and the struggle of ideas. By Bearer of discomfort on September 29, 2011. The most potent weapon of the oppressor, is the mind of the oppressed. 8211; Steve Biko, Cape Town 1971. Pron: pa-reez-ee-as-tic). There are several conditions that must be met in order to fulfil the definition of the term. First being parrhesiastic means being willing to. Second telling the truth must involve. The direct...
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Words | Turangawaewae
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8230; collectively crafted over coffee in an effort to spread discomfort …. Words, words, words … I love ’em, and collect quotes like a mad woman. Hence this page is where I intend to throw all my favourites, maybe they’ll speak to you too. Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides. André Malraux. Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. At this moment in history, we are all caught in the hell of passivity. 8220;Real i...
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Occupy Wall Street: The power of words | Turangawaewae
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8230; collectively crafted over coffee in an effort to spread discomfort …. Occupy Wall Street: The power of words. By Bearer of discomfort on October 22, 2011. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Of occupation made several weeks ago: THE UNITED STATES IS ALREADY BEING OCCUPIED. THIS IS INDIGENOUS LAND. A real clanger – obvious once stated, and uncomfortable in the way overlooked (ignor...Native peop...
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Racism and the media – exploring the said/unsaid | Turangawaewae
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8230; collectively crafted over coffee in an effort to spread discomfort …. Racism and the media – exploring the said/unsaid. By Bearer of discomfort on September 26, 2011. The role of philosophy is not to discover that which is hidden, but to make appear that which we do not perceive because it is so near. 8211; Michel Foucault. You should pay attention to, its what’s not said. Previously. I generally have little to no interest in the usual ‘racist’ incidents that draw the attention of t...The media fur...
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Whiteness matters: on domination and seeing what’s not to be seen | Turangawaewae
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8230; collectively crafted over coffee in an effort to spread discomfort …. Whiteness matters: on domination and seeing what’s not to be seen. By Bearer of discomfort on March 16, 2012. S”. Dyer, 1997. I am more a watcher than a talker (though I can talk too! Been included in ‘us’, as his very words indicated. Forget ‘swinging from trees’, they were classed in the category of trees not too long ago; as flora and fauna. And google ‘happy man’. Google ‘angry man’. Google ...The human race”. Here in Aote...
