However this line “developing a hostile “us vs them” world view”, would probably put most of the readers of TDB on a watch list! Of course there was, but imagine if the Left had been actually transformative and had eased those economic anxieties? Of course the protestors were violent – we spent 3 weeks winding them up and then called their reaction a hate crime. That’s why the appointment of someone like Professor Joanne Kidman to the National Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism is so counterproductive and problematic. There is a rising tide of extremism and the conditions for making it worse are all collapsing in upon us.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 28, 2022 20:11 UTC