Cracker rednecks who have benefited from 19th Century White Settler privilege demand Māori bow as conquered natives

There is a lot of tone policing going on at Māori…

Shane Jones accuses Te Pāti Māori of playing the Harry Potter ‘muggles’ blood shaming game

New Zealand First deputy leader Shane Jones is calling out Te Pāti Māori for its “racist” rhetoric and says their continual use of “racism”, “genocide” and “Pākehā supremacy” is driving a divide between New Zealanders.

Jones told Radio Waatea host Dale Husband that a new ideology emerged in Te Pāti Māori in the three years when New Zealand First was out of Parliament, and its relentless blood shaming of Māori or others who don’t believe in their philosophies was inciting racial disharmony.

…Tone policing Māori over righteously angry rhetoric by those who are leading the assault against the Treaty is Trumpian in its self delusion.

Look at the naked anti-Māori attack on the Treaty!

• They will repeal 7AA of Oranga Tamariki to green light a tsunami of Māori baby uplifts!
• They are trying to ram through a referendum on Treaty Principles that will eliminate the need for the State to work with Māori!
• They are attempting to rip Māori representation away from local Councils!
• They have killed off the Māori Health Authority!
• They have slashed Māori funding in the budget!
• They are trying to remove all Treaty references in the law!
• They have attacked any bi-lingual moves!

Boomer Cracker Settlers have gone all in on the race baiting and are now sad sad that Māori have risen up and protested back.

The entire political agenda of National is to underfund public services so they can privatise them while ensuring Unionism never grows.

What Luxon, Seymour and Winston have done with their anti-Treaty, anti-Māori, anti-Renter, anti-worker and anti-environment agenda is unify Māori in a way no one else could!

As the Census proves, 20% of NZ is Māori and 1 in 3 are under 25. The age of the Redneck Settler Boomers is coming to an end, the future is young and brown and that future will not be told they are second class citizens in their own country.

2023 wasn’t an election, it was a  grudge fuck against Labour by an embittered post Covid electorate who were economically insecure, alienated by woke dogma and heart broken that all Labour could do with a once in a generation MMP majority was ‘good first steps’ rather than transformational leaps.

It has resulted in a Hard Right Racist Government bound together only by a shared glee in bashing beneficiaries, workers, renters, prisoners, the environment, gang members, drug addicts and the disabled.

They all have a particular dislike for Māori and have used attempts at co-governance to fulfil the promise of the Treaty (which is our collective obligation) as a weapon with which to cement into place 19th Century White Settler Privilege and call that ‘democracy’.

The NZ Political Right have mistaken anger at Labour as a mandate for culture war vengeance and they have conflated Majoritarianism as Democracy!

In a modern liberal democracy, you acknowledge the power imbalance created in society and you resource to ensure those power imbalances are compensated for!

In a liberal progressive democracy, it doesn’t matter what role you play in the complex super structure of our society and economy.

It doesn’t matter of you are a garbage collector, a dr, a nurse, a drain layer, teacher or tradie – if you all stopped doing your jobs the system can’t work.

Everyone deserves to share the collective harvest of civil society with public services and policies focused on the public good enshrined in the intrinsic civil liberties each individual has.

Wealthy individuals who become mega rich thanks to the landscape generated by those values are required to pay more back into the system they have benefited from beyond the bare necessity of ruthless accountancy practices.

The Political Right are screaming that imposing Qanon talking points as social policy, destroying workers rights, Tobacco deaths for tax cuts and taking $600million from the poorest families are all acceptable because they have the Majority so fuck everyone else!

They promised cancer patients their life saving drugs but gave the money to the rich instead FFS!

They stripped $3billion out of climate change budgets.

They took between $90million to $300million out of Māori budgets!

They are ramming corrupt fast track powers through!

But it’s the call by Māori naming the structural racism set against them that has the right in a tizzy?

Against this nakedly anti-Māori agenda, Māori are calling for their own Parliament because they have been pushed there by this Government’s racist agenda!

It’s like the Right have lit this fuse and are now complaining about the fire they’ve started!

Personally I have zero problem with Māori establishing their own Parliament. Right now Māori have their own King and it doesn’t impact my life in anyway. If Māori want their own Parliament, they have every right to call for one. It won’t have any actual powers but it can be a strong representative platform.

I’ve always argued for an Upper House about our Chamber that should be 50/50 and discuss Treaty related legislation, but I’m a politics geek.

A Māori Parliament would be symbolic and a valid means of gathering and focusing Māori aspiration, it isn’t a Government with all the powers of a Government, it’s a democratic infrastructure for representation!

While we are starting up a Māori Parliament, let’s also bring back universal student union membership at Universities and universal union membership for every migrant worker.

The answer to our ranker is more democratic infrastructure, not less!

Democracy demands deeper values than mere majoritarianism!

The drive to have a Māori Parliament should be seen against the backdrop of racism this new Government have manufactured.

Cracker rednecks who have benefited from 19th Century White Settler privilege are demanding Māori bow as conquered natives when they never, ever will.