ACT MP launches member’s bill to stop universities offering services ‘based on race’
An ACT MP has drafted a member’s bill she says would “ensure universities do not allocate resources, benefits or opportunities based on race”.
It follows on from a Cabinet directive last year to create a “colourblind” public service, which Public Service Minister Nicola Willis said was “a direct result of the coalition agreement” National had with ACT to form the government.
ACT tertiary education spokesperson Dr Parmjeet Parmar on Saturday said that directive did not apply to universities.
Political Octogenarian and grumpy granddad who gets tricked by Russian disinformation scams, Winston Peters, is leading his war on woke because his anti-vaxx conspiracy theories and anti-Māori dog whistles can’t get any traction over David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Referendum canine trumpet.
You would barely know that Shane Jones and Winston are currently attempting to strip the Treaty out of all legislation because David Seymour has taken all the news oxygen with his Treaty Principles Referendum.
NZF have attacked the Trans Community and attempted to sate the anti-vaxxers but they are still just above the 5% threshold.
By starting his ‘war on woke’ Winston hopes to regain some of his reactionary fervour because bashing Māori, the trans community and vaccines isn’t enough in todays reactionary redneck electorate.
Borrowing culture war talking points from MAGA shouldn’t be celebrated, it should be punished, yet ACT also know and recognise the power of culture war ammunition because the middle class woke helped propel ACT from .7% to 8%.
ACT are looking at how far Musk and DOGE have managed to go and want to lean into racist dog whistles for their social hate algorithm reactionary electorate and attacking Universities for having any system designed to help anyone not white and male is culture war central for foaming ACT Party acolytes.
Dr Parmjeet Parmar is the new face of right wing racism as she attempts to conflate segregation to include spaces for Māori and Pacifica students at Auckland University.
It is offensive and outrageous in the extreme for ACT, NZ First and National to call Women’s Space, Queer Space, Māori Space and Pacifica Space at Auckland University ‘KKK’, ‘Separatism’ or ‘Segregation’
ACT, NZ First and National are all competing for culture war bullshit rhetoric against spaces that have been at Auckland University for 4 decades FFS!
These spaces provide important resources for those students to access alongside support and counselling.
The late Efeso Collins helped set up Pacifica Space, Dr Ranginui Walker helped set up Māori Space, dedicated feminists helped set up Women’s Space and pioneering Rainbow Community helped set up Queer Space.
THESE SPACES ALSO ALL EXIST INSIDE PARLIAMENT FFS!
To denigrate these spaces on a University and threaten them is fucking fascism and the speed and ease with which this hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing
This Government has moved to start purging those their redneck voters despise and every Kiwi who is disgusted by these tactics need to wake up.
This ain’t a moderate Government and they will play victim so they can victimise.
They are openly vandalising the egalitarian state and calling it performance art!
Others have defended the separate spaces by pointing out the existence of women’s spaces. I reject the comparison. Separate spaces for women reflect inherent differences between men and women. I don’t believe races are inherently different, but this is the kind of thinking encouraged by separate spaces.
…oh so Women’s Space is different is it – what about Queer Space as well?
To attack Māori Space and Pacifica Space is to also attack Women’s Space and Queer Space, the only reason this ACT Party Clown has backed off Women’s Space is because she knows she can’t win that debate – get the far right out of our Universities!
Women’s Space, Queer Space, Māori Space and Pacifica Space are not comparable to the KKK!
Women’s Space, Queer Space, Māori Space and Pacifica Space is not segregation!
Women’s Space, Queer Space, Māori Space and Pacifica Space is not separatism!
They are spaces that have been available to support those students at University for decades! To attack them in the manner National, ACT and NZ First have done based on nothing more than redneck anger on social media shows how far we’ve allowed the extremes of this hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government have stooped to.
This is Redneck Fuckwittery 101. We should not allow these right wing fanatics to start culture wars on our Universities.
I called that out when the Left tried to do it with Trans debates on Campus and I’m calling it out now as the Right try a far more aggressive attack.
The final word comes to the man who helped build the very spaces that Dr Parmjeet Parmar is attempting to destroy…
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There should not be any seperate space for women as well and when a person comes to live in NZ THEY SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN A STATE HOUSE AND SPEACIAL TREATMENT .They should speak english before they come and be ready for work the next week and have that job before they get here .
We all know that the treaty bull shit bill is a smoke screen while they cancel everything else .They keep spouting that local councils need to get back to doing stuff the community needs yet they are failing in their own job which is to work for every kiwi in NZ WHICH IS WHAT THEY ARE ELECTED TO DO .Instead they are focused on whats best for self and the top 10% who they think like them when in fact they dont because they are wanna be 10% ers which they will never be .
Back in the day there used to be “women’s rooms” in public parks where women could feed and change the nappies of the baby boom babies! What happened to those mother’s spaces?
Well as DEI is now bad let’s start with Winston Peters and some much needed ageism. Winston you are way too old to hold such responsibilities, be gone. There, that was easy
As for ACT, much the same response. Get rid of the DEI member of your team that’s telling universities to get rid of any preferential treatment. Clearly Dr P was only included because of her ethnicity
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