Winnie threatens funding cuts for RNZ

[Lilith7]

I'm not sure I get your drift.   Who are these people?   Can you list some names?   Do you mean older women with lavender hair who attend lots of committee meetings and therefore carry agendas around?

you know exactly who i mean

Well, I don't. And in view of the fact that, at one point, I had purple streaks in ny hair, I wonder if I'd be included in the group you find so concerning.

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i have no problem with gay people, i have no problem with trans people, i have a problem with the activist types with their purple hair and agendas.

Why? I get purple streaks sometimes when my coloured conditioner grabs in my white hair, and yes, I probably have an agenda - or rather, a wish list. I'd quite like a universal basic income to share the wealth and eliminate poverty based on a much fairer tax system, and I'd also like to see guaranteed affordable housing - we could do that too with a bit more effort and better budgeting. And I'd really like to see more colour and fun in our communities, it might reduce the widespread stress and mental health problems we have out there.

And if it wasn't for activism we wouldn't have things like DoC, and public health, and forty hour weeks, and holidays, and freedom from child labour. Parental leave is down to activists, better sports facilities and libraries came from activism. Charities. Our nuke free status...

Activists are people prepared to put their energy where their mouths are. I think we need more of them, not fewer. Of course, that doesn't include folk like the Destiny thugs, or the mass shooters, or suicide bombers, or the incel nutters. Or drunk drivers, drug users, or sexual predators. Or billionaires. Those activist types we can do without, I agree. I guess we each have a few favourites when it comes to social improvements, lol... 

Yes to all of that, AND for say, five years pay all the money usually allocated each year to sports, to the various arts instead, & see what difference it might make...