Good piece by @mohanjdutt.bsky.social | We must name racism when it happens e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-... #nzpol
@mohanjdutt.bsky.social "Name racism here, & you will be told you are divisive, that you are importing someone else’s culture war.. that this is not who we are...It is not impolite to name racism... What is impolite is telling a New Zealander of 30 years to go home" e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
We must name racism when it happens | E-Tangata
"It is not impolite to name racism, to document it, or to organise against it. What is impolite is telling a New Zealander of 30 years to go home. What is indecent is a cabinet that shelters him." — M...
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“Racism is putting "We Prefer Customers Who Look Like Us" in the shop window. It is terrible marketing. It narrows the talent pool. It makes the country look smaller & meaner than it is, & in a small open economy that depends on the rest of the world not laughing at us, looking mean is expensive.”
Mohan J Dutta@mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 2d agoculture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/08/an-o...
An Open Letter to the Honourable Christopher Luxon, CEO... apologies, Prime Minister of Corporation New Zealand
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
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culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/shan...
Shane Jones has said racist things about migrants. On the Kia Ora Modi rally, he is the one telling the truth
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
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India's anti-terror law jailed an 84-year-old Jesuit priest, who died in custody. NZ is now talking intelligence cooperation with that system. Whose terrorists would we be hunting? culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/whos...
India's anti-terror law jailed an 84-year-old Jesuit priest, who died in custody. NZ is now talking intelligence cooperation with that system. Whose terrorists would we be hunting? culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/whos...
Whose Terrorists? The Question Beneath New Zealand's Security Talk with India
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
culture-centered.blogspot.com
I have often said this. I find liberals performing “let’s sing kumbaya” whiteness to be some of the greatest enablers in the rise of fascism. Here’s my analysis of The Spinoff’s coverage of Kia Ora Modi. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/beau...
Beautiful Chaos as Alibi: What The Spinoff's Modi Coverage Performs
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
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A new scholarly article I co-authored is out at the Quarterly Journal of Speech. If you like reading communication theory and thinking about how to apply it to confront groups like Patriot Front, this article is for you.
Yup @sean-phelan.bsky.social the vacuousness of Labor and Spinoff, while performing centrist liberalism, and selling all the culturalist nonsense.
Sean Phelan@sean-phelan.bsky.social · 3w agoTotally justified takedown of the overrated and self-regarding Spinoff by @mohanjdutt.bsky.social For a notionally "liberal" media outlet, its coverage of the Modi visit mirrors the lack of thought we see in the gushing social media posts of the Labour party MPs #nzpol
The discipline of distinguishing Hinduism, which filled that arena with legitimate joy, from Hindutva, the political production that harvested it. A multiculturalism worthy of the name, 1 that engages minority communities as internally plural & politically alive, with their own struggles over power.
Mohan J Dutta@mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 3w agoI have often said this. I find liberals performing “let’s sing kumbaya” whiteness to be some of the greatest enablers in the rise of fascism. Here’s my analysis of The Spinoff’s coverage of Kia Ora Modi. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/beau...
Totally justified takedown of the overrated and self-regarding Spinoff by @mohanjdutt.bsky.social For a notionally "liberal" media outlet, its coverage of the Modi visit mirrors the lack of thought we see in the gushing social media posts of the Labour party MPs #nzpol
Mohan J Dutta@mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 3w agoI have often said this. I find liberals performing “let’s sing kumbaya” whiteness to be some of the greatest enablers in the rise of fascism. Here’s my analysis of The Spinoff’s coverage of Kia Ora Modi. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/beau...
“India's Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the country's principal anti-terror law, has been deployed against journalists, students, academics & human rights defenders, people whose offence was reporting, organising or dissenting.” Read more about the authoritarians NZ’s govt is cosying up to:
Mohan J Dutta@mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 3w agoI have often said this. I find liberals performing “let’s sing kumbaya” whiteness to be some of the greatest enablers in the rise of fascism. Here’s my analysis of The Spinoff’s coverage of Kia Ora Modi. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/beau...
Beautiful Chaos as Alibi: What The Spinoff's Modi Coverage Performs
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
culture-centered.blogspot.com
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/whos...
Whose Terrorists? The Question Beneath New Zealand's Security Talk with India
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
culture-centered.blogspot.com
@mohanjdutt.bsky.social helping #nzpol make sense of Modi's visit: "A saffron flag with a war cry flew over Auckland this week, & the political leadership of this country stood inside the arena it pointed toward. NZ should say plainly what it saw" culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/jai-...
Jai Shree Ram in Auckland: Two mainstream NZ parties, the Kia Ora Modi Event and Mainstreamed Hindutva
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
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as people rightfully lament some of the press releases being sent out by RNZ on Modi's visit this morning, I was glad to belatedly see that @thepost-nz.bsky.social published this op-ed by my Massey colleague @mohanjdutt.bsky.social last week www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
What is Hindutva and why should New Zealand care?
OPINION: Narendra Modi is coming to Auckland, and with him comes a word most New Zealanders have had no reason to learn: Hindutva, writes Mohan Dutta.
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You'll have seen me banging on about media and politicians' silence about Modi's instigation of Islamophobic violence during his visit. Read Prof Mohan Dutta's piece below for why it matters. #nzpol
Aotearoa Alliance Of Progressive Indians@prgrsvindiansnz.bsky.social · 3w agoThank you @mohanjdutt.bsky.social
"Every second of it will now be clipped, subtitled and pushed through the Hindutva ecosystem as recruitment material, burnishing the image the movement has spent two decades manufacturing..." Ngl I give it 24 hrs before it hits the WhatsApp family group chats in the usual forwarding-chain format
Aotearoa Alliance Of Progressive Indians@prgrsvindiansnz.bsky.social · 3w agoThank you @mohanjdutt.bsky.social
*Hopefully now* NZers will start waking up to what @mohanjdutt.bsky.social has been telling us for SO LONG.... 🤦♂️
Aotearoa Alliance Of Progressive Indians@prgrsvindiansnz.bsky.social · 3w agoThank you @mohanjdutt.bsky.social
The right have turned the rhetoric of "safe" spaces into a monstrous left caricature. But this bang-on piece by @mohanjdutt.bsky.social captures how "progressive'' institutional elites can deploy safety rhetoric in gamey ways - as part of a respectability politics that is no politics at all
Mohan J Dutta@mohanjdutt.bsky.social · last mo.
@mohanjdutt.bsky.social "the test of any antiracist project is brutally simple, & it has not changed: does it leave the structure intact, or does it come 4 the structure itself? Everything that whiteness has learned 2 absorb fails that test. Everything it cannot absorb is where the work actually is"
Mohan J Dutta@mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 2mo ago
Such a fantastic piece. So much I can relate to, having worked at an NGO chasing govt contracts 😞
Mohan J Dutta@mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 2mo agoculture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/06/futu...
Future-Ready for Nothing: The Bullshit Grammar of Neoliberal Crisis Management
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
culture-centered.blogspot.com
When civil servants fuck up they should be held "accountable" as everyone – and not least the far right – likes to say. But maybe the always on-brand Peters has been road-testing local variations of "lock her up" at the NZ First focus groups #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Winston Peters says government officials who mislead ministers should be ‘put in prison’
The foreign minister says government officials who mislead ministers should be “put in prison”.
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