It’s a nice day for a White Wedding. . . .
that’s fucking awesome.
so awesome I’m not going to bowdlerize myself
Eh… are they really a “gang”?
Nice to see they are taking the kids out in to the wood though!
I learned a new word today!
Why is this extraordinary? It sounds like maybe it goes against what everybody knows about “those thugs.” Is NZ racism that much like the USA?
That makes sense. Maybe I’m just wearing my American glasses.
They do appear to be wearing biker vests. Anyway, “gang” isn’t synonymous with “criminal organization.”
No, it’s not synonymous, but there is definitely negative connotations.
This isn’t the 1950s where the gang is going for sodas after school, or the gang is going to pile into the van and find out who is really haunting the old amusement park.
Just don’t invite the gang to dinner.
I LOVE that show.
Nope!
It’s one of those taxonomic oddities.
Cattle in numbers is a herd.
Black people in numbers is a gang.
White people in numbers is a Klan
Mexicans and Muslims… Well. Those come in floods.
Trump2016!
“Hikoi” in this context probably best translates as “pilgrimage”
Black Power is a “gang” at least in the NZ context - whether that’s golod or bad is kind of a political issue - police demonisation of gangs has been going on for decades, the kind of bogeyman you trot out when you want more funding
Trump voters in numbers is a . . . Trump lump?
Interesting. So you’re saying the word “gang” itself doesn’t have particularly negative connotations there?
It does in the U.S. – racist and/or classist ones, especially.
Rich people in numbers is a private club.
murder of millionaires
no - it does - but the cops have been demonising “gangs” (originally largely white motorcycle gangs) since the 60s - it doesn’t mean that they are angels, I think there’s reasonable evidence that some gangs are involved in the production and delivery of meth - then groups like black power who have all the trappings of “gangs” - gang-patches etc doing some good in their communities - some doing school lunches in low decile schools, organising legitimate employment for their members (locally getting contracts to do work for the city) etc
I guess what I’m trying to say is that there’s probably too much heat and not enough light here in this area here in NZ “gang” doesn’t mean all bad - as these guys out honouring their dead show
