ACT are a race baiting far right political Party that implements dark desires for Far Right International Think Tanks while enabling donor interests.
They do this with a never ending anti-Māori and anti-Treaty agenda because that’s what excites settler rednecks the most.
Here’s their latest hate towards Māori…
ACT Party wants Health NZ to ditch karakia for staff
The ACT Party wants Health NZ to stop encouraging staff to incorporate a Karakia – or prayer – into their daily routine.
A leaked email revealed the organisation wants staff to include more prayers into their work – and included instructional videos.
ACT health spokesperson Todd Stephenson has labelled this a ‘distraction’.
“We want a culturally and religiously neutral public service… and we believe that these prayers or rituals are actually a distraction from what the public service should be doing.”
…right, so where is their complaint about the Prayer that opens Parliament every single fucking day?
Funny isn’t it:
Brown prayers in Health Ministry = EVIL
White prayers opening Parliament = Sweet as
The ease with which ACT use racist tropes and racist dog whistles to excite the cracker settler rednecks and call that legitimate criticism of race relations is testament to how far we’ve allowed social media hate algorithms to define political debate.
When I warned Middle Class Woke Activists not to give ACT the culture war ammunition they would use agains us, ACT was .7%.
They are now 8%.
We are in a lot more trouble politically than many people comprehended when they elected this hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government.
Could be a language issue. The parliamentary prayer is in English, which most MP’s have a reasonable grasp of, karakia in Maori, which many don’t understand.
In a ghastly government department, as a union delegate, I queried why the karakia was always delivered by a Maori or Pacifica person, in Maori, no whites allowed. I suggested it suggested that only Maori and Pacific had a spiritual dimension in their lives. I was told that should the influencers identify a suitable Pakeha person, then they would be asked. Weeks later at a shared meal, an elderly white bloke what asked to say the grace, then they reverted to the status quo.
Where ACT is currently rather absurd, is kicking up a fuss about their lapel pins. It’s petty, and they need to choose their issues if they want any credibility. Peters is also correct about barefooted parliamentarians. It’s inappropriate and unprofessional. Most bare feet are ugly, IMO, and on mufti Fridays in the ghastly government department, barefooted persons were aesthetically horrible.
People have diverse beliefs, and different prayers that may speak to them. Might pay to just have a minute of silence before and after meeting to pray as they wish, or to take deep breathe and centre themselves.
Those are the same white bible bashers that have been raping and bashing kids in NZ for 200 years so why do we even have a bloody prayer at all .I guess it make the god squad feel good before they pass more laws legalising uplift and abuse of the next generation of young people .
Seems to me there’s a few brown bible bashers around the place. Dudes with shiney motorbikes and stacked boots who think that gays cause earthquakes etc.
And yet ACT calling out racism in parliament is the most hypocritical issue we have seen in decades.
Didn’t some Greens just resign because they thought the party was racist?
What a glorious day it’ll be when they’re banned in both places. The “white” and the “brown” prayers (and the “purple”, “green” and “orange” ones).
So yes I’ll agree there is hypocrisy, I just don’t see why every bloody government department or council now needs to pray before doing anything. No god is going to save them from their incompetence.
P. Carran Now now. Police all over Christchurch and probably Wellington have karakia whenever they meet. Such an effective crime fighting tool that they don’t to pay the coppers much to do their jobs.
Keep prayers out of the workplace and back in church were they belong, regardless of what language they are in. We don’t need any superstitions at work.
Helen Beck. Adults being forced to acknowledge or to participate in karakia in government workplaces is surreal, more so in a secular society. This doesn’t mean they should be labelled “superstitions”, but there is a time and a place for everything, and some would see this as a form of bullying in which one has to acquiesce, or be dubbed racist. Objectively, it’s an interesting form of societal control.
Religion is generally a collection of superstitions that believers pretend are facts, and that has no place in the workplace.
If the ritual mentions gods or spirits then yes, it is a superstitious reference.
Yes, the problem is only made worse when it is performed in a language you may not know and you become an unwitting, nonconsenting participant in a practice that you may object to.
The three British Christian crosses on the NZ flag would have to be removed .
And in singing the national anthem , a prayer, the 92% to 94% who NEVER voted ACT or NZF have been shat on already by the Jackbooters.
” God defend our free land
From dissension, envy, hate
And corruption guard our state
Make our country good and great
God defend New Zealand …
And those shameful international headlines we’re now making …on our spotless name ?.
“Let our love for Thee increase
May Thy blessings never cease
Give us plenty, give us peace
God defend our free land
From dishonour and from shame
Guard our country’s spotless name
Crown her with immortal fame
God defend New Zealand ”
And in the last verse …. ” TRUTH ” ??? and whose plan ???
” God defend our free land
Guide her in the nations’ van
Preaching love and truth to man
Working out SEYMOUR’S glorious plan
God defend New Zealand ”
And change this line…
” Men of every creed and race
Gather here before Thy face … only pakeha can rule this place …
God defend only white men “
well done
I refuse to ever sing either of NZ/AO anthems, because of their dishonest nature of being prayers in disguise.
Even speaking as a religious person I don’t see the need for any sort of prayer before a meeting. A moment of silence in which people have time for a private prayer or karakia would seem to be the best option for a public service which needs to remain neutral on spiritual matters, but again, I don’t see that as something that’s actually needed.
What irritates me is those public sector liberals who are so fashionably atheist where Christianity is concerned, yet fall to their knees in shuddering admiration when it comes to Maori, or any sort of Indigenous, spirituality.
I resent being required to sit through prayers of any description in a civic or otherwise secular setting.
Ban them all in those settings, feel free otherwise to chant and hand-wave your magic spells in the privacy of your own home or place of worship.
So there goes Christmas, May Day , New Year , Solstice, Fasnacht , the Burryman, Easter , the Fêtes de L’Ours , Halloween, Thanksgiving , Guy Fawkes, Gody Zywieckie , Valentine’s, Walpurgisnacht..to name a few money makers.
Boring life there RC or are those ones okay because they’re European Pagan origins ?
“So there goes Christmas, May Day blah blah….”
Why? no one makes me recite Christmas prayers nor enforces that I stand in silence to hear the praises of Santa Claus and his reindeers.
Personally, i don’t observe a single one of those days as being special, I couldn’t give a toss what they are named for, but will take any associated holiday for reasons of their healthy stress relief/relaxation value.
We now have this in my workplace before meetings, along with the token te reo phrases.
It just feels so inauthentic & patronising. Most people just sit there with a forced smile, and opt out when asked to do this ourselves.
But this takes me back to the 1980’s when the nice middle class people would drop the odd comment in french or even latin
Why are teachers forced to learn the language. I am happy for Maori to be taught as it is an official language and it should not be allowed to die , but it should be learned by choice.
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