Luxon

[Wainuiguy]

Interesting piece by Gordon Campbell, especially the second footnote.

http://werewolf.co.nz/2022/03/gordon-cam...bPydozapjs

I guess interesting in that it was full of fairly large assumptions driven by the authors own political leanings and bias.  And funny that certain posters on here are presenting it like Luxon actually said these things in this story when he never said anything if the sort.

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the problem for Luxon as I see it - the term Bottom Feeders is derogatory and clearly meant the scum at the bottom of the figurative economic barrel... 

The problem in using such a term (other than general perception) is no-one other than Luxon knows just how far off the bottom of the aforementioned scummy barrel one has to be in Luxons view, to not be considered a bottom feeder... 

Therefore a lot of people further up the barrel, clearly not the Fendalton end but still in spitting distance of the scum, might consider that he is referring to themselves...

Bottom feeders Is derogatory you are right.  But then he is referring to that small section of NZ society who prey on others.  And that just isn't the poor - in fact in most instances isn't the poor at all. Payday loans companies, shopping trucks, businesses who bring in foreign workers and then treat them like slaves (and worse they often bring in their own people to do it to), criminals, gangs.  These are the bottom feeders people know and recognise.  The author tried badly to lump in working poor into that and worse nurses who would likely be more middle class workers.  That shows how the author thinks- not Luxon.
Then he  starts quoting the Bible in an effort to make out Luxon isn't a "real" Christian.