This is how I sum up the effective assessment of University of Auckland Vice-Chancellor Stewart/Stuart McCutcheon in his taped conversation on the 6 am edition of RNZ National's pre-Morning Report today...
...as he declared the results of his careful, thorough investigation - in the post-Christchurch paranoia and witchhunt under every conceivable nook and cranny of New Zealand's dark underbelly for white supremacists throughout NZ Inc.
To the very specific and well-publicized allegations that Auckland University itself was a potent breeding ground, or at least melting pot, of white supremacists, McCutcheon declared: it was not even white supremacy necessarily/as such, but racism...in the instances cited before him; and moreover [to express his sentiments in my own rather colourful paraphrased version] two such cases do not an epidemic - much less pandemic - make!
No indeed.
Yes, despite all the hoo-haa, the almost endless hullabaloo, navel-gazing, browbeating and smug, self-righteous indignation and virtue-signalling self-flagellation engaged in seemingly relentlessly by all and sundry throughout the length and breadth of God's Own ever since Aotearoa-New Zealand's very own '9/11'...nothing significant had been uncovered.
No, two instances out of a varsity population of 40,000-some hardly constituted a crisis...-or, as the likes of that prescient discerner of hidden reality, Aesop himself, might have put it: two swallows do not a summer make. No indeed. And until more substantial evidence was presented to him - not more merely anecdotal hearsay - the Vice-Chancellor would remain of that viewpoint...
Postscript:
To the unmistakable deep dissatisfaction of the journo covering the story, evidently...who helped RNZ shortly thereafter craft a self-serving 7am headline item seeking to effectively rubbish the VC's conclusions...and, in a self-serving attempt to save face, obscure the case with lots of heat but little extra light...
Hey, the truth hurts, folks, doesn't it - but please, oh please, don't use that as an excuse to shoot the messenger (of unpleasant facts and realities) that you wish were not the case.
It's known as objective, balanced, fair-minded journalism, folks...something you'd be wise to learn up on...if you fancy a legacy of being real, true-dinkum journalists...
...but no, I'm not losing any sleep imagining you're teachable enough to profit by the lesson...any time soon... As they say, dreams are free - and apparently in great supply of late...
Yes, I'll admit it certainly suits the obvious as partisan political purposes and underlying agenda of unbalanced 'snowflakers' to put abroad such spurious rubbish - and at every available opportunity - but that don't make it fair and reasonable journalism, folks...
...as he declared the results of his careful, thorough investigation - in the post-Christchurch paranoia and witchhunt under every conceivable nook and cranny of New Zealand's dark underbelly for white supremacists throughout NZ Inc.
To the very specific and well-publicized allegations that Auckland University itself was a potent breeding ground, or at least melting pot, of white supremacists, McCutcheon declared: it was not even white supremacy necessarily/as such, but racism...in the instances cited before him; and moreover [to express his sentiments in my own rather colourful paraphrased version] two such cases do not an epidemic - much less pandemic - make!
No indeed.
Yes, despite all the hoo-haa, the almost endless hullabaloo, navel-gazing, browbeating and smug, self-righteous indignation and virtue-signalling self-flagellation engaged in seemingly relentlessly by all and sundry throughout the length and breadth of God's Own ever since Aotearoa-New Zealand's very own '9/11'...nothing significant had been uncovered.
No, two instances out of a varsity population of 40,000-some hardly constituted a crisis...-or, as the likes of that prescient discerner of hidden reality, Aesop himself, might have put it: two swallows do not a summer make. No indeed. And until more substantial evidence was presented to him - not more merely anecdotal hearsay - the Vice-Chancellor would remain of that viewpoint...
Postscript:
To the unmistakable deep dissatisfaction of the journo covering the story, evidently...who helped RNZ shortly thereafter craft a self-serving 7am headline item seeking to effectively rubbish the VC's conclusions...and, in a self-serving attempt to save face, obscure the case with lots of heat but little extra light...
Hey, the truth hurts, folks, doesn't it - but please, oh please, don't use that as an excuse to shoot the messenger (of unpleasant facts and realities) that you wish were not the case.
It's known as objective, balanced, fair-minded journalism, folks...something you'd be wise to learn up on...if you fancy a legacy of being real, true-dinkum journalists...
...but no, I'm not losing any sleep imagining you're teachable enough to profit by the lesson...any time soon... As they say, dreams are free - and apparently in great supply of late...
Yes, I'll admit it certainly suits the obvious as partisan political purposes and underlying agenda of unbalanced 'snowflakers' to put abroad such spurious rubbish - and at every available opportunity - but that don't make it fair and reasonable journalism, folks...
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