This week Bernard Darnton investigates whether or not human rights apply to darkies.
The Department of Labour is investigating “concerns” that a number of migrant workers were retained by a Christchurch company that has just made some New Zealanders redundant. Perhaps the Department’s time would be better spent investigating whether badgering companies to retain more expensive or less skilled staff is likely to make the recession better or worse.
Union secretary Phil Yarrall went whining to the Department of Labour asking for the migrant workers’ work permits to be revoked. He might like to explain how solidarity with the brotherhood of man is furthered by firing workers because of their ethnicity. Perhaps he should swap his job at the Manufacturing and Construction Workers Union for a nice spot on the board of the Ku Klux Klan.
There’s a disturbing degree of nationalism creeping into advertising too. Kiwibank has been at it since its inception, hence the name. Its advertising is based around the fact that they aren’t all nasty and foreign like those – horrors – Australian banks. Market research shows that this campaign has been wildly popular. Which just goes to show that there are a lot of fuckwits out there.
Air New Zealand is advertising that they’re “truly Kiwi” because they fly to Gisborne and Timaru unlike those Aussie-owned airlines, who are not from round here and are therefore crap.
What is it with government-owned companies and economic nationalism? State sponsored slagging-off of foreigners has been tried before and it ended up no fun for anyone. Thank God that New Zealand First was killed off at the last election. Now isn’t the time for a foreigner-hating Foreign Minister. Actually it’s never the time for a foreigner-hating Foreign Minister, and fortunately only 4.5% of the population disagrees with me.
Speaking of idiots who get het up about airport sales, last year a Canadian pension fund was prevented from investing in Auckland Airport because it’s a “strategic asset.” As if they were going to sneak over one night, stick the runway in a suitcase, and take it back to Toronto.
You get the same sort of economic nonsense from the Green Party – witness the now thankfully defunct Buy New Zealand Made campaign. American mega-corps with their refined-this and their detransfatulated-that are out to poison us. Chinese manufacturers of milk, sweets, canned strawberries, lead-painted Thomas the Tank Engine characters – pretty much anything in fact – are also out to poison us – and our children, the heartless bastards. Only good old New Zealand businesses (except those run by businessmen) are safe.
Not that economic nonsense from the Greens is a surprise; it’s just that you’d think a crowd of hippies would be a bit nicer and not get so down on our comrades of exotic extraction. But it turns out that foreign trees don’t deserve a hug.
If I were an employer (which I thankfully am not – I would rather be waterboarded with filthy foreign melamine-tainted milk) the absolute last person I would employ would be some whiny ignoramus who thought that his best qualification for a job was an accident of birth rather than, say, talent.
* * Bernard Darnton writes every Thursday at NOT PC * *
UPDATE: Matt Nolan follows up. So does Eric Crampton.
7 comments:
Hear hear. Cannot agree with you more.
Thank you for writing this. Thank you thank you thank you.
For a little while I was worried that no-one was going to complain about the uncomfortable nationalistic sentiments creeping up on us during the recession.
Well said. It's a dangerous path the country is heading down.
Those who advocate jobs for NZers over foreigners are racist. This title is imprinted on the forehead of anyone who says that someone is entitled to a job based on their skin colour, nationality, ethnic background, or the country name embossed on their passport. In short, this title applies to almost all New Zealanders including politicians and union officials.
As Ayn Rand noted:
"Racisim is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors."
Such people are not interested in the welfare of others. Do not be fooled.
I never (where possible) buy a product/service from a company with the name "kiwi" in the title. I suspect the word "kiwi" is used to encourage "racists" to buy a product for reasons other than quality.
Fantastic post Bernard
Julian
Bernard you're 200% correct when you stated that there are a lot of fuckwits out there.
One of those fuckwits is libertarianz Rebel Radius who had opposed the Auckland airport share sales, to a Canadian Pension Fund (CPF) not because it’s a "strategic asset", but on the basis that CPF is owned by Muslims (ie, majority shareholders).
Really well said. These recent events show up true collectivist colours a la the Trade union Brotherhood, who aren't so brotherly after all.
And spkg of non-brotherly, I disagreed with RR's stance on sale of Auck Airport shares, too, Beehive -- still do -- but this is all smelling a bit personal ..
Is it?
Is Rebel Radius a member of the Libertarianz? Given that Radius's opinions completely oppose those of the Libertarianz (on the issue of the Ak Airport sale) you wouldn't think so.
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