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During the 2020 election campaign no one from the Labour Party told us that if Jacinda was re-elected we would be flooded with Maori names, place names, new departmental names eg “The Ministry for Women Manatu Wahine.
Former Labour Cabinet Minister and historian Michael Bassett sounds hopping mad, and who can blame him? We know the feeling ...
(And) "a bulls-wool version of the Treaty they call “Te Tiriti”, assertions that Matauranga Maori is superior to western science, that lots of advertisements on TV would henceforth be in Maori, and that MSM journalists who could speak a little Maori would have their pay accelerated and their work-loads reduced.
Bassett has lots more to say:
Are you, like me, getting sick and tired of being told that everything about our culture is inferior to Maori, and that we should learn to live with a constant diet of Te Reo?
Turn on Radio New Zealand in the morning and Susie Fergusson, Guyon Espiner and even Corin Dann do the news introductions in Maori.
It's simply BAD MANNERS. It's also bad reporting. Reporting - journalism - is communication. If you want to communicate with people, you have to speak their language. Their lingo. About 16-17% of Kiwis are Maori and only a small proportion of them speak Te Reo. ALL of them speak English.
Try Midday Report and you get Mani Dunlop showering us with untranslated Maori phrases.
“Aotearoa”, we keep being told, wrongly, is “the original name for New Zealand” when it wasn’t. As a historian who spent a decade on the Waitangi Tribunal, I abhor such crass ignorance. As Michael King pointed out, our country had no name in 1840 except a Dutch version of the words “New Zealand“ that had been bestowed internationally on our islands by Abel Tasman when he returned to Europe after his visit in 1642. At the time the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840 both signatories occasionally referred to “islands” or used “Nu Tirani”.
It was Sir George Grey, much derided by today’s more belligerent Maori crusaders, who first popularized the word Aotearoa in the 1850s. The Main Stream Media (MSM),
however, now use it all the time, telling us it was the first name for our lands: the New Zealand Herald, TV ONE, TV3, Radio New Zealand, Stuff, you name it: belligerent ignorance keeps being forced upon us at Jacinda Ardern’s behest and partly funded by the Public Interest Journalism Fund.
They're all in the business of concealing the truth - of prevaricating and telling bare-faced lies, disseminated by 'the single source of truth' owned and operated by a pathological tyrant and her minions.
Let’s reflect for a moment. During the 2020 election campaign no one from the Labour Party told us that if Jacinda was re-elected we would be flooded with Maori names, place names, new departmental names eg “The Ministry for Women Manatu Wahine”, a bulls-wool version of the Treaty they call “Te Tiriti”, assertions that Matauranga Maori is superior to western science, that lots of advertisements on TV would henceforth be in Maori, and that MSM journalists who could speak a little Maori would have their pay accelerated and their work-loads reduced.
Nobody told us that henceforth European culture would be down-graded, false historical narratives would be taught to our children and called “history”, or that more and more hours of the school day would be given over to Te Reo and the peddling of demonstrable falsehoods about aspects of cultural relations.
Or that no one in the Ministry of Education would lift a finger to ensure that children were told the facts, rather than codswallop. It is ridiculous to pretend that a language can be taught by sprinkling individual words into sentences. At that level, I could claim fluency in French!
Speaking of codswallop, take a look at the 'sex education' peddled by this government, which is even more pernicious. But yes, these kids will likely grow up speaking pidgin. In another generation or two we could all be speaking pidgin.
Let me be clear. All my life I have argued for Maori to have a fair shake. I marched in the streets in 1960 against an all-white All Black team going to South Africa. Same in 1981 when the South Africans chose to send an all-white team to New Zealand. When as Minister of Internal Affairs I chaired the 1990 Commission it funded many initiatives such as building a dozen new waka to give Maori pride of place at Waitangi in the Queen’s presence on 6 February.
As Minister of Local Government I supported local councils consulting Maori when issues important to them arose. I’m the first to acknowledge that Maori haven’t always been treated fairly. But I abhor the ignorance demonstrated daily by Jacinda Ardern’s government, her acolytes, ministers like Nanaia Mahuta and Willie Jackson, and their bureaucracies in the name of “equity”.
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In between all his other commitments, what efforts has Education Minister Hipkins, or his CEO Iona Holsted made to ensure that our school children are taught factually accurate information about Maori and Pakeha history? I’d award them a fail mark on what I’ve seen of the school curriculum. Same for what the Minister of
Let me be clear. All my life I have argued for Maori to have a fair shake. I marched in the streets in 1960 against an all-white All Black team going to South Africa. Same in 1981 when the South Africans chose to send an all-white team to New Zealand. When as
Minister of Internal Affairs I chaired the 1990 Commission it funded many initiatives such as building a dozen new waka to give Maori pride of place at Waitangi in the Queen’s presence on 6 February.
As Minister of Local Government I supported local councils consulting Maori when issues important to them arose. I’m the first to acknowledge that Maori haven’t always been treated fairly. But I abhor the ignorance demonstrated daily by Jacinda Ardern’s government, her acolytes, ministers like Nanaia Mahuta and Willie Jackson, and their bureaucracies in the name of “equity”.
In between all his other commitments, what efforts has Education Minister Hipkins, or his CEO Iona Holsted made to ensure that our school children are taught factually accurate information about Maori and Pakeha history? I’d award them a fail mark on what I’ve seen of the school curriculum. Same for what the Minister of Broadcasting – yes, Willie Jackson – prescribes for RNZ and TV. If those ministers and bureaucrats had to pay fines for the inaccuracies appearing on things under their control they’d be bankrupt.
If only Jacinda, her cabinet and her caucus had been better educated, or read more, they might be embarrassed by what is being done in the name of promoting Maori.Why didn’t they tell us at election time what they intended doing? Why the sudden surge of misleading pro-Maori propaganda the moment the election writs were returned? Is it now the sliding poll support for the Labour government that has led them to step up their preoccupation with Three Waters and a costly re-structuring of the health services in the name of greater control by Maori before they lose office?
The worst aspect of all this is that the government’s relentless pro-Maori push is seriously damaging race relations in New Zealand. The 83 per cent of our population who aren’t Maori – people like Chinese and Indians who have come here to work hard and to get ahead, not to mention the many generations of Europeans – have to watch rewards going to people on the basis of ethnicity rather than work ethic.It's called RACISM. Of the first water.
Hard-working, talented Kiwi without a drop of Maori blood – and that’s all that most self-designated Maori possess – are passed over for promotion and a place in the sun under this government. The hermit kingdom they call “Aotearoa”, with its tightly controlled borders, has become a social laboratory aimed at facilitating a takeover of authority by a small racial minority backed up by a false narrative.Vive la révolution! This government is determined on, and dedicated to, the overthrow of democracy. It's a pity a man of Michael Bassett's calibre couldn't see that's the way all socialist governments - like his was - are headed.
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If they really and genuinely believe that Maori "science" is better than Science itself let them reject the applications of this science, namely all western technologies and live as their ancestors did
ReplyDeleteNo metals means no cooking pots no nails, no effective ploughs,
No buttons no zippers no woolen clothing or woolen blankets,
No cotton garments of any kind, no ;leather
No coinage or trade other than bartering or theft through warfare
No modern medicine, living in a huts or caves.
No chimneys meaning illness from smoke inhalation
No clean water etc
the bulk of these people would not survive a Canterbury winter let alone an Otago one.
If they won't put their money where their their endlessly prolix mouths are they are seen as pure hypocrites
and if the do they are fools
A always I remain
Stefanvs Svm
It is a Maori country be right.
ReplyDeleteIf the Labour Party had told voters their true agenda prior to the 2020 election they would not have been voted in. The entire country was conned by Ardern .
ReplyDeleteAfter signing a mutual agreement,
ReplyDeleteNobody told TANGATAWHENUA! that their language would be SUPPRESSED! For almost 200 years.
GOD BLESS MAORI AND THE MAORI KUPU
KI TE ATUA MO AKE MO AKE
try not to use a government to disguise your own HATRED!
MY WORD WAS TAKEN FROM ME,
and you are ok with this,
MY WORD HAS BEEN REINSTATED!
You must be ok with this also,
OR YOU DWELL IN BLIND HATRED!
For GOD so loved THE WORLD,
this is all races, all colors, all language, all faces, ALL
THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE WAY ❤️❤️❤️
Yes, God bless Maori and the Maori Kupu. Although I don't know what 'Kupu' means I'm sure they could do with God's blessing. Because after all the millions spent and attention paid to Te Reo for 50 years the plight of Maori has only worsened.
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine works in a business devoted to training apprentices. It is soon to be subsumed under the nation wide umbrella organization that takes in all the Polytechnics.
ReplyDeleteMY friend tells me that every morning they will be required to say prayers to the Maori gods. As an atheist she does not care.
But it is clear that there is a spiritual dimension here, and if i were in this job I would flatly refuse.
This is not about freedom of religion or even freedom or equity for Maori (If i were a complete cynic I could, like some, invoke my tiny smidgeon of Maori blood, ape iwi mannerisms and claim a handout from govt). This is racist supremacy. And blasphemy to boot.
For myself i do not really approve of even Christian prayers in a workplace, to me they are all exercises in hypocrisy. I
neither want nor need govt props for my own prayer life.
but i certainly will not participate in prayers to false gods especially in the name of political correctness
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This will not end well, of that I am sure
I remain
Stefanvs Svm
The problem is that Maori was made an official language some years ago and all major parties voted in favor.
ReplyDeleteMāori now wield massive political power. The government's apparent sell-out to the Māori political agenda and Te Reo has a political basis that virtually no MSM journalist has the guts to tackle.
ReplyDeleteBut it’s the pro-Māori direction we are apparently being led by the Catholic Church we need to know about. We get large amounts of Te Reo, including in Masses. We get Māori carvings inside and outside our church buildings. The latest social justice week delivered a diatribe about colonialism and Māori inequality. The Māori material being fed to our kids in Catholic schools is concerning.
But we Catholics get no explanation of what the big picture is. Does all this stuff that is fed to us mean we Catholics must support the Māori political agenda and the transfer of wealth on a racial basis? Is it about us Catholics being coerced to accept Māori culture? Are we being told to adopt Māori spirituality, is it a part of ecumenism? Is it all part of required belief for Catholics? Is the Church aligning laity with the government agenda for Māori?
Talking to fellow Catholics I’m not surprised there is a lot of push back against all this Māori emphasis in the Church. I am sure all Catholics accept Māori as brothers and sisters in Christ, celebrate their language and culture, and have no objection to helping Māori in a constructive way. But we must have a proper doctrinal basis for what we are being told to do and accept. We must be told what the limits are.
Bishops, please clarify the position for all our benefits, otherwise more infighting will be the result.
Vote this government out and reverse all there policies!
ReplyDeleteFire all the PR people .
No secrets, restore democracy.
Mike Harris, I'm with you!
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