Thursday 4 January 2018

Whither Populuxe1? Mass Murder Advocate Fails to Front His Critics (Dec. 20, 2012)

WHERE IS HE?
Whither Populuxe1?
Mass Murder Advocate Fails to Front His Critics
I note with some concern that poor old Populuxe1 has failed to surface after being keel-hauled by all and sundry on Tuesday.
I can see five possible explanations for his failure to mount an argument in defence of himself and his outlandish statement on Open Mike:
1.) He lacks the wherewithal to mount a coherent argument;
2.) He is “on leave”, a la the Rt. Hon. Hekia Parata;
3.) Professor Stuart McCutcheon has gotten wind of Populuxe1’s extra-curricular nonsense, called him in for a talk and delivered a stern warning: “If you continue to make a fool of yourself like this, Dr. Hoadley, even under a preposterous surname, we will have to look at your position a little more rigorously….” ;
4.) He is licking his wounds and preparing for an AWESOME comeback, where he sprays around even more awesomely absurd epithets;
5.) In his shame and desperation, the poor oaf has actually shown some courage and taken the time-honored option, viz. …..
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Giotto_-_Scrovegni_-_-47-_-_Desperation.jpg
Conoisseurs of the bizarre and deranged can peruse the poor chap’s comment by clicking here….
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-18122012/comment-page-1/#comment-564232
  • Lanthanide8.1
    Sorry, but Hekia is only Hon., not Rt. Hon.
    • NoseViper (The Nose knows)8.1.1
      But she is a real Right One.
    • Morrissey8.1.2
      Thank you for that, Lanthanide. While we’re on the subject of errors, I note another grievous one, where I show Prof. McCutcheon warning Dr. Hoadley that he must not make a fool of himself, even under the cover of “a preposterous surname“.
      Of course, Prof. McCutcheon, a highly educated man, would have used his words far more accurately.
      This is what he would have said: “If you continue to make a fool of yourself like this, Dr. Hoadley, even under a preposterous pseudonym, we will have to look at your position a little more rigorously.”
      My apologies for the careless error in the original post.
      • McFliper8.1.2.1
        This line of comments offends me greatly. Not only are you speculating on identities based on the flawless logic “I disagree with H, P disagrees with me, therefore P=H”, you also seem to have constructed a fantasy about H’s legislated academic freedom being interfered with by M, who is connected to you only by virtue of being H’s boss’s boss.
        Here’s a thought – lose the obsessive vendetta part of your shiny hat. You might be less of a jerk.
        • Morrissey8.1.2.1.1
          This line of comments offends me greatly.
          I’ve already admitted out that my (entirely reasonable) speculation was wrong.
          Not only are you speculating on identities based on the flawless logic “I disagree with H, P disagrees with me, therefore P=H”, you also seem to have constructed a fantasy about H’s legislated academic freedom being interfered with by M, who is connected to you only by virtue of being H’s boss’s boss.
          As I’ve already said, it was a reasonable supposition. Not many in academia, bar a couple of certifiable cases at Waikato, are as ideologically extreme as Steve Hoadley; our friend Populuxe1 made a stunningly foolish and extreme anti-Palestinian comment; Populuxe has made a point of telling this online community that he works in a university, ergo it was a reasonable inference that the extreme anti-Palestinian Populuxe1 was the extreme anti-Palestinian Steve Hoadley.
          Happily, Populuxe1 assures us that he is now “on the side of the innocent civilians, both Palestinian and Israeli”, so assuming he is not lying, there will be no more erroneous assumptions by anyone that Populuxe1 is Steve Hoadley.
          Here’s a thought – lose the obsessive vendetta part of your shiny hat.
          That was a reasonable inference. You can call it “obsessive”, but on reflection I think you’ll recognize that is not a fair portrayal of my stance.
          You might be less of a jerk.
          Oooff! Now THAT hurt. I now have hurt feelings….
          • McFliper8.1.2.1.1.1
            I work at a university. Am I Hoadley?
            There are literally thousands of academic and general university staff, if P was even telling the truth about the sector they worked in at the time they wrote it.
            And yeah, inventing conversations between real people based on the fact that you disagree with one person’s pseudonym and another person’s media comments, so therefore it’s a “reasonable supposition” that they are the same person. That’s obsessive.
            But nice to know you genuinely believe you were trying to “out” a Standard commenter’s identity. Jerk.
            • Morrissey
              I work at a university. Am I Hoadley?
              I do not think so. Unlike Populuxe1, you have not been making Hoadley-esque public statements pouring scorn on the victims of state terror.
              There are literally thousands of academic and general university staff,
              There would be only half a dozen of them that are so brazen and shameless in their public praise of the Holy State.
              And yeah, inventing conversations between real people based on the fact that you disagree with one person’s pseudonym and another person’s media comments, so therefore it’s a “reasonable supposition” that they are the same person. That’s obsessive.
              No, it is reasonable to assume that an academic brazen enough to publicly state (on radio) that he supports the state that is engaged in the mass murder of imprisoned, ghettoized untermenschen might be foolish enough to come on a popular forum like this and make similar statements, as well as spraying the ridiculous accusation of “anti-Semitism” at anyone who protests at the Holy State’s campaign of terror. That’s what our friend Populuxe1 did.
              You can call that “obsessive”, but that slur carries as much critical heft as our friend Te Reo Putake’s repeated claim that any and all evidence is “no evidence”.
              • McFliper
                But what about pseudonymous comments? With no career reputation to worry about? And besides, I reckon you vastly undercount the number of right-wingers in academia.
                No, it is reasonable to assume that an academic brazen enough to publicly state (on radio) that he supports the state that is engaged in the mass murder of imprisoned, ghettoized untermenschen might be foolish enough to come on a popular forum like this and make similar statements,
                That is indeed a reasonable assumption. But the assumption you made was that any person who uses a pseudonym to state similar (for a given margin of error) opinions is probably therefore the same person who uses their own name and academic freedom in mass media. Not to mention the defamatory assertion of a vice chancellor interfering in the freedom of an academic to express his opinions.And at least I stated exactly why, with reference to specific facts, I thought you were obsessing over this. Inventing defamatory conversations on the illogical leap you made is not healthy.
                But you merely make the assertions, and almost never relate them to verifiable specific facts. Also known as “evidence”.
  • Populuxe18.2
    Have you changed your meds recently?
    • Populuxe18.2.1
      And I don’t know who Hoadley is, but I ain’t he. However isn’t that sort of speculation against the rules here? Usually the moderators are all over that.
      • Morrissey8.2.1.1
        You don’t know who Hoadley is? He’s a far-right commentator from the University of Auckland, who during the recent escalation in Israeli terror against the citizens of Gaza, came onto Radio Rhema (which laughably calls itself the Christian station) and expressed his support not for the victims, but the killers.
        Your irrational response the other day led me to think he was you. Seeing you live in Christchurch, obviously that was a mistake.
        • Populuxe18.2.1.1.1
          Anyway, in answer to your vitriol, I condemn Israel’s excessive use of force against the Palestinians and their continued illegal colonisation of the West Bank. It’s bizarre that you assume I would just because I find the continued one-sided generalisations about Israel from you to be irritating, antisemitic and smacking of obsession. FYI Bebe and his Likudniks do not represent the entirety of Jewish or even Israeli opinion.
          However I also condemn Hamas for its continued provocations of Israel with little regard for the ordinary Palestinians they were foolishly elected to represent, and for the continued climate of fear it creates for ordinary Israelis. I regard Hamas as a terrorist organisation and I lose no love on them.
          I am on the side of the innocent civilians, both Palestinian and Israeli. Now go fuck yourself you presumptive freak.
          • Morrissey8.2.1.1.1.1
            Anyway, in answer to your vitriol,
            The vitriol is entirely yours, my friend. I simply held up a mirror.
            … I condemn Israel’s excessive use of force against the Palestinians and their continued illegal colonisation of the West Bank.
            “Excessive use of force”? What, are you suggesting that there is an ACCEPTABLE use of force that an illegal invading force can use against a civilian population?
            It’s bizarre that you assume I would just because I find the continued one-sided generalisations about Israel
            What you reflexively and stupidly damned as “anti-Semitism” was in fact a careful, scholarly analysis of systematic bias by the BBC.
            … from you to be irritating, antisemitic and smacking of obsession.
            I’ve posted some things about Israeli state crimes, as well as crimes by other countries. That’s “obsessive”? You have no strategy other than spraying lame epithets at me?
            FYI Bebe…
            That’s “Bibi”, actually.
            …. and his Likudniks do not represent the entirety of Jewish or even Israeli opinion.
            As if we did not KNOW that. So who are Mark Regev, Tzipora Menache and Israel’s other ghastly apologists for state terror representing—the Likudnik regime that runs Israel—or those who belong to the humane, liberal, thoughtful Jewish tradition?
            However I also condemn Hamas for its continued provocations of Israel with little regard for the ordinary Palestinians they were foolishly elected to represent, and for the continued climate of fear it creates for ordinary Israelis. I regard Hamas as a terrorist organisation and I lose no love on them.
            You don’t know what you’re talking about. You would have condemned the French Resistance, the Yugoslav partisans and the Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto.
            I am on the side of the innocent civilians, both Palestinian and Israeli.
            High time you said so, sir. We can look forward to an improvement in the quality and morality of your posts, no doubt.
            Now go fuck yourself you presumptive freak.
            That sort of abuse is fine when used against, say, Araboushim, or, if you like,untermenschen. Here, all it does is re-emphasize the poverty of your argument.
            • Populuxe1
              It’s a lovely day out. Why don’t you get a book on New Zealand birds and go twitting… Or even some bark rubbings. I think you need to get outside in the fresh air more.
              • Morrissey
                It’s a lovely day out. Why don’t you get a book on New Zealand birds and go twitting… Or even some bark rubbings. I think you need to get outside in the fresh air more.
                TRANSLATION: “I got nothing.”
    • Morrissey8.2.2
      That’s a clever response.
      Pretty much a literary correlative to Option 5, really.

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