Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Tag: david farrar

  • How the Dirty Politics machine continues to do its work

    “There are a few basic propositions with negative campaigning that are worth knowing about. It lowers turnout, favours the right more than the left as the right continue to turn…

  • Tea breaks are creeping communism

    A classic National Party campaign poster did the rounds on Twitter following Farrar’s latest round of “Labour is now the extreme left” scaremongering. What’s funny is how little the right’s…

  • Watching our language on mental illness and disability

    [Content note: ableist language] It was probably inevitable that in a post on The Standard about the differences in commentary style between leftwing and rightwing blogs, someone would come along…

  • Good old-fashioned Kiwi values

    [Content warning: contains links to and quotes from violent and anti-Muslim hate speech.] David Farrar has some … interesting ideas about how to tighten up immigration policy in the wake…

  • David Farrar gets it wrong on abortion law in NZ

    Oops, two posts criticising DPF in a row, that’s a little weird – a consequence of the Labour Party’s leadership dominating the news, and my reticence about wading into that issue,…