she hasn't really spoken about it much since stepping down but it's believed to be a big, big part of why jacinda ardern stepped down from the PM role.
Which wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it's 100% true.
on top of that she's a pakeha women. WOC and especially maori women in parliament here simply are not allowed to do the same things male pakeha MPs do here, and it's not even slightly subtle.
I missed that! I do not follow New Zealand politics as closely as I do Mexico and the US. It’s a low key “wish I could move there” aspirational political interest.
Is it too simplistic of me to say anonymity should be removed from all social media?
I know, some people need it for valid reasons but the net damage is fukn enormous
I'm reminded of fb asking me to fill out a survey because they wanted to know how I felt about something and I've never been so disappointed...like "you mfers been mining my data for more than a decade and a half, and have the audacity to pause now and ask me what I think?"
I'm so old I remember when people only spewed vitriol on the internet under handles and aliases
Facebook normalized acting like a complete dink while posting under your real name
I mean go look at linkedin.
That place isn't any less toxic and it's exclusively for people looking to network with their real identities.
and that ignores the dangers to literally everybody if you don't let people organize anonymously.
I've worked in that space for 20+ years, and bear in mind that there's a long list of countries where the outcome for, "being queer" is a swift lynching
The research shows that real name policies do not make social media better. Sometimes they make it more vicious. Overwhelmingly the "best" experience is had in environments where anonymity is allowed. (I will try to find citations!)
Knowing K-Hive though, she might even get some racist wine moms who would relish the opportunity to lord their support of her over BIPOC who are less than thrilled 😅
I witnessed the most racist white person simping for Kamala Harris and using it as an excuse to shit on Muslims, Arabs, Asians, and everyone she says is 'white-adjacent' because they support Palestine because real black people support Israel like KH... so I immediately regret witnessing such a thing
That same white woman said that Jews are black-adjacent and count as enduring the same persecution as black people and it is why all real black people have solidarity with Israel because Israelis and Jews count as black people because they face persecution for their race...
She has some incredibly racist fans. Used to see those white wine moms lecturing poc about how they needed to support Harris all the fucking time on the bad site. They would drop the "you're not really black" line with zero self awareness.
