{"id":33603,"date":"2021-07-01T08:45:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T23:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/01\/new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-opposition-judith-collins-leader-karen"},"modified":"2021-07-01T08:45:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T23:45:31","slug":"jacinda-ardern-suggests-opposition-leader-judith-collins-is-a-karen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33603","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern suggests opposition leader Judith Collins is a \u2018Karen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comments by New Zealand PM came during a parliamentary debate on the country\u2019s new hate speech laws<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has suggested her opposition party counterpart could be called a \u201cKaren\u201d during a fierce debate in parliament over laws governing hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>Judith Collins, the leader of the opposition, has argued strongly against changes to the country\u2019s hate speech laws, saying the new rules could mean \u201cpeople feeling insulted being able to criminalise people who make them feel insulted.\u201d After the 15 March mosque attacks by a white supremacist, the New Zealand government<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/25\/new-zealand-moves-to-toughen-hate-speech-laws-in-wake-of-christchurch-attacks\"> has proposed introducing much harsher penalties<\/a> for those who incite or \u201cnormalise\u201d discrimination or hatred.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/01\/new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-opposition-judith-collins-leader-karen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments by New Zealand PM came during a parliamentary debate on the country\u2019s new hate speech lawsNew Zealand\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has suggested her opposition party counterpart could be called a \u201cKaren\u201d during a fierce debate in parliame&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33604,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603\/revisions\/33604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}