Will this also be condemned?

Stuff reports:

An effigy of Foreign Minister Winston Peters was put through a mock guillotine in central Auckland on Saturday as protesters demanded Prime Minister Christopher Luxon sack him over his “go back to your own country” remarks in Parliament.

The Migrant Workers Association of Aotearoa staged what it described as “political satire and theatre” on Saturday, following Peters’ controversial remarks to Chinese-born Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan.

Peters has condemned the protest, describing it as “not political satire” but “a call for violence”.

I recall during the Covid-19 protests, there were sometimes placards that called for Nuremberg hearings against the then PM, which were implicitly a call for executions. They led to scores and scores of stories where all political leaders were asked to condemn them etc, and numerous other stories where it was held up as a sign of extremism.

Now doing an actual mock execution is a step up from that. Also this wasn’t a couple of rogue actors. This was advertised as happening by the organisers of the protest. It was sanctioned by their leadership.

So I would expect media to be doing the following:

• Finding out if any election candidates or MPs were in the audience, and vigorously questioning them over whether their attendance was an implicit endorsement of the mock execution
• Asking party leaders if they condemn the mock execution etc
• Checking who is behind the Migrants Workers Association, their funders, their leaders and asking them all if they stand by what happened
• Asking all political parties if they will refuse to meet or attend MWA representatives due to their actions with the mock execution

This is after all the approach the media took to the Covid-19 protesters.