Does depravity come under the ‘diversity’ umbrella?
Is anything even depraved anymore, or is everything now just diverse?
There was a bit of a ‘to do’ in Auckland during the weekend just gone. Te Atatu Library hosted a drag king storytime session for children, and the Destiny Church chaps and gals protested it. From what I can gather via the media and online videos, they stood outside the venue with signs, and then some of them – both men and women – went inside to attend the session. What they intended to do once there, I don’t know, but they weren’t there to take their own kids to it.
Some library staff tried to stop them by physically blocking the stairs which lead up to the room where the session was being held. Several Destiny Church boys pushed – not shoved - on past them, and then it seemed they did a haka (war dance) outside the shut room. Those who remained in the foyer of the community centre where the library was housed did one there, too, and some female members of the public appeared to initiate a scuffle with some of the Destiny Church women. Police, who happened to be nearby, arrived, and the protestors peacefully left the building. The ‘storming’ reported in the mainstream media didn’t come across as all that stormy, apart from the scuffle, perhaps.
The drag king storytime session was subsequently abandoned. According to reports, a few children inside the room got a bit upset by the noise outside. There were a couple of bangs on the wall – an understandable occurrence from doing a haka in a confined space - which startled some of them. Not knowing what was going on would have been the anxiety-point, I expect, because, as one commenter on X so eloquently said, “If a child in New Zealand is frightened by the haka, they’re screwed”, meaning that the haka is regularly performed here.
The mainstream media swung into outraged action about the incident, and sought comment from those certain to voice the approved opinion. So far, I’ve read what the Prime Minister, the leader of the Opposition, the co-leader of the Green Party, and the Mayor of Auckland have said. I’m not going to bother referring to any of it here – it’s an easy online find, if anyone so desires to do that – but it all went along the lines of “shocking … bad boys … thuggery … not real men … unacceptable … diversity is cool”. This from the very ones whose lips were firmly glued shut about the worst mob violence perpetrated against women in NZ’s history in Albert Park on 25 March 2023. And they remain firmly glued shut about that, including the mainstream media’s.
Destiny Church, led by Brian and Hannah Tamaki, is controversial, to put it mildly. I myself definitely have some opposing beliefs and opinions to them. However, damn them all we want, if we want, but harming women and children is not part of their programme¹. The reason they protested the drag king storytime at the library on the weekend just gone, is because they want to save children from exposure to inappropriate adults. Brian Tamaki has been very clear that, after exhausting all other options to get libraries and Councils to cease contracting drag queens and kings to read to children, Destiny Church will physically protest the events. Many of us have also exhausted the proper avenues to get through to our Councils and libraries to cease drag queen/king storytelling, but they remain obdurately ‘progressive’ in celebrating ‘diversity’. So, Destiny Church have begun doing what they said they would do.
Whenever Destiny Church’s name crops up, they are automatically the villains. It’s like a divine command in the ‘progressives’ bible. I’m not a Destiny Church champion, but once their name crops up, all critical thinking stops. Let’s look at exactly what they were protesting on the weekend.
The drag king who was contracted to read to kids in the library was a woman whose drag stage-name is Hugo Grrrl, and whom the library promoted by that same name, so she is easy to find online, as I did. Hugo Grrrl is a woman who’s had her breasts chopped off and pretends she’s a man pretending to be a woman. She has an Instagram account, but if you can’t access it, here’s a few screenshots from it.
If her Instagram is anything to go by, her drag act appears to be sexual in nature, which is in line with what is commonly understood about drag performances - i.e. adult entertainment. In NZ we haven’t had the overtly sexual drag garb worn by drag performers when reading to children – yet. They usually mute it, and reportedly, children often have a fun time at these storytime sessions. But isn’t that how all normalising the abnormal and grooming starts? These sessions are not innocent, they are influential on kids, and they work to subliminally sexually activate them.
Regardless of whether or not that’s the intention of everyone involved, any industry where sex is the commodity has depravity lurking nearby. I believe, in the words of my plainly spoken dear ol’ dad, depravity to be “as cunning as a sh*thouse rat”, and it has taken advantage of what ‘progressives’ call diversity. Diversity is the new wonder-word, which we can be endlessly admonished to tolerate. But just how much ‘diversity’ do we tolerate? As much as will fit under that ever-expanding umbrella?
I remain in two minds about Destiny Church’s protest at the Te Atatu Library on the weekend. Whilst I disapprove of shutting down events by the ‘thug’s veto’ method, in this case it‘s not just about just shutting down a person’s right to speak, or to be ‘diverse’ - that’s the shallow interpretation. This is about the future wellbeing of kids, and that’s where my disapproval of Destiny Church’s actions in shutting down the event in this instance stops being black and white.
¹Spare me the story of the convicted sexual abuser who attended their church at some time in his past. Whilst his conviction is incontrovertible, when it comes to Destiny Church, the mainstream media would never let the actual truth of a matter get in the way of a good story.
I’ve added a little more content in this blogpiece as more information came to light, than what I initially wrote.
I commented on the Free Speech Union post about this on Facebook, in which they argued for free speech absolutism basically, i.e. they supported the right for the drag queens to do the story reading and opposed the Destiny Church group. I asked if the FSU would be willing to distinguish between the right of adults to speak freely to other adults, and the right (or lack of it) to speak freely to children. I personally think there is a big difference, and I think that there is a general expectation among the vast majority of people that adults DO in fact need to speak guardedly to children, and that adults should not speak to children or expose children to the same things that we recognise that adults can be exposed to. As Katrina says in her article here, this is not really a case of freedom of speech, as children are involved.
Yes I agree they’re the easy villain in any msm story. Lazy journalism. The outrage their actions inspired contrasts with the silence following the mob attack on defenceless women two years ago. I’m cheered by the knowledge that hardly anyone trusts msm these days.