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Claims that local Black Lives Matter protests and the Anti Covid mandate protest are different examples of the same thing appear to be very overstated.
Friday, 2 July 2021, 4:28 pm
On Monday, as I drove from Kerikeri to Kamo, on Radio New
Zealand Kathryn Ryan was interviewing
students from Christchurch Girls High School, who were
commenting on vague but serious claims of sexual abuse, with
the finger being pointed mainly at Christchurch Boys High
School pupils.
It was a discomforting listen, and my
passing thoughts included three movies: The Crucible (set in
the 1690s), Heavenly Creatures (set in the 1950s), and
Clockwork Orange (set in the 1960s). My thoughts also
drifted to the Christchurch Civic Creche case (early 1990s),
where a number of women and one man were charged with