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 .
gw it’s by no means confined to “white bible bashers.”
Your racist instincts revealed.
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.
The parliamentary prayer would need a law change to get rid of it as it’s part of parliamentary ‘rulings’?
A karakia is just a box ticking action that the management foister on the workers….look, if they want to hold a karakia each morning then make it voluntary not compulsory.
I know people who work in Govt depts for last few years and they tell me it’s a karakea before each group meeting (in person or on a zoom meeting) then one at the end.
General consensus, according to their team colleagues, 80+% feel annoyed they have to sit through something they don’t understand nor brings anything of value to them.
Once again maori forcing maoridom down everyone’s throats….not going to end well!
pakepakeha, so how are “maori forcing maoridom down everyone’s throats….”? Just a throat-fucking lying prick making shit-up IMO
I’m righty is amongst the most racist in our country. He can never back up his racist claims with evidence.
Karakia is voluntary but when you have your head up your arse like tighty righty you only talk shit.
absolutly correct assesment of that prick who is never right
Notice the employed narrative and how some of these ‘paaaart maaaris’ like Seymour highlights that one particular section of their ethnicity than follow up with negative attributes affiliated with that culture? They aren’t critical at all of their white percentage ethnicity deliberately left out of any discussion unless conflated in a nostalgic & positive narrative.
These ‘paaart maaaris’ and some full blooded ones were renown for turning against Maori that’s littered throughout our country’s history and this method that the ACT party is employing isn’t alien to Maori. Our country history holds some of the answers to our political & social problems we are facing today characters like Seymour have been apart of our political society since pakeha set up a parliament that represented their superiority in the 1850s.
https://www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/index.php
And yet ACT calling out racism in parliament is the most hypocritical issue we have seen in decades.
Really squeaky?
The hypocrisy is imbedded in the left of politics.
The treatment of Minister Chhour is a prime example.
All racism is abhorrent but more abhorrent is claiming it only comes from one side.
Really Bob thick fuck?
Yes
Minister Chhour has implemented the most abhorent racist policies this century, if she can’t handle it she should do what Key said ” get some guts” or get out because she’s to weak to be a minister.
Yes, Bob. Te Pati Maori and the Greens, IMO, are racist and very ignorant to boot. Paul’s diatribe about colonialist James Cook, one of the greatest sailors in history, was a distortion of fact, and the Maori leaders divisiveness is counterproductive.
Well said Bob .Labour lost all their Maori seats si obviously they did not look after them well enough despite the underhanded way they tried too. It seems the Greens are not that flash either. It would seem sone Maori and Pacifica are very touchy about some thinks and easily offended
Didn’t some Greens just resign because they thought the party was racist?
ACT promotes a vision of New Zealanders without any special privileged groups, and everyone and their cultures being equal but none fostered by officials as special.
Can see why that appeals to non-Maori and new migrants, apart from the guilt-ridden progressives.
Ada, so if we are to abolish “special privileges” then lets get rid of perpetual leases of millions of acres of maoriland held under pakeha control unfairly that still occurs since ova a century. Maori owners to theses leases are paid poorly depending on how much shares one owns meanwhile the ‘pakeha lessee’ has accumulated millions of dollars and assets and has the right weather to extinguish the lease or not that right isn’t afforded to the Maoriland owner.
I agree – the perpetual leases are horrendously unjust and should go.
that would be a good start ,then all national parks should be handed back to Maori as well .Then at least 10% of earnings from stolen land from the last 1840 till today should be paid to the IWI the land was stolen from
Bullshit Ada. ACT are a racist privileged party supported by white privileged identities belonging to Hobsons Pledge, a racist group set up to destroy the treaty.
Act is the pot calling the kettle black!!
Look how indulged and priviliged they are …
Only in power by dint of being backed by self interested big money, more than likely obtained via corrupt practices, and then manipulating
a loophole in the political the system
They are a dangerous tiny, fucked in the head, silver-spooned minority, and yet who else gets that spoilt over indulged hand out to gain power.
These are the very people, along with National, who continually preach to everyone that money is not the answer to people’s problems….
And yet they are the biggest money grubbing, money hungry, cheating, lying, corrupt, over indulged, greedy fuckers to walk the planet.
Take the money away from these bunch of schisters and see how tough they are and how far they get!!
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.
Well said P.Carran a good dose of common sense.
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.
ACT. = Labour’s traitor roger douglas = 40 years of scams and greed for the very few, hardship and uncertainty for the many+ societal dysfunction+ crime and poverty and control = david seymour. A mysterious little alien of unknown origin who’s stupidity added to cunning won’t allow common sense and humanity to flourish because no pain – no profit.
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.
Apparently religious practices are different for the public sector liberals if it’s indigenous practices – they feel more genuine than the European traditional beliefs.
Yes I agree Frankie Lee we see Christianity derided all the time on this site while the same people support Indigenous religions.
I guess they are naturally biased and hypocritical.
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.
Wonderful Richard Christie and may I add it’s a nice little earner for those who deliver the hand waving mythical spells.
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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