"I hate labels. There's been a lot of talk about people being - not just the neonazis who were in Melbourne and possibly the few far right people who were there on Saturday, but the women - or 'the TERFs' - were 'Nazis', who were speaking. ...labels like that really do not help. And calling me a 'TERF', because my main concern is simply that we have to be able to talk about this stuff, that doesn't make me a 'TERF'..."
#JulietMoses, spokesperson for Jewish Council of NZ, 2023
"That's the concern, it's what is called the 'thug's veto'... my concern is that if we can't have these kinds of discussions - and I don't even know if the right term is 'civil dialogue', perhaps sometimes it's uncivil dialogue - but if we can't have [dialogue], it plays into the hands of the extremists on all sides, and I really don't think that is a healthy place for us to be as a society..."
#JulietMoses, 2023
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