Heal the Nation Hikoi failure & the dangerous rise of Right Wing Māori social media influencers

The ‘Heal the Nation’ Hikoi promoted by Right Wing Māori Social Media Influencers has been a total and utter failure.

Despite all the hype online, the event could barely manage to attract 50 people at the opening…

A hīkoi known as “Heal the Nation” had also outlined plans for a symbolic walk across the Auckland Harbour Bridge around the same time as Tamaki’s proposed protest. Waatea believes less than 50 people attended the Hikoi at Parliament with one Maori Warden saying it appeared “chaotic” with numbers dwindling to “25” shortly after

…there were more Police and Māori wardens at the protest than actual protestors.

When the far right conspiracy fringe unit Counterspin are standing beside you, you are in the wrong team.

Despite all the hype online, it begs the question who funded this stunt which only far right conspiracy theorists turned up for, Samual Hudson had a look…

…there is now a new generation of Right Wing Social Media Influencers doused in toxic conspiracy claims that parrot Hobsons’ Pledge talking points about ‘Elite Māori’.

One of these Right Wing Māori Social Media Grifters appeared on Duncan Garner’s Editor in Chief to pimp this Heal the Nation Hikoi…

…and it was incredibly telling that ‘Shubz’ with his Cuzzie Bro Mozzie delivery didn’t immediately attack Duncan.

If ‘Shubz’ was real about attacking the Māori elite, he would have immediately attacked Duncan because Duncan works for Mediaworks, Mediaworks operates George FM, George FM is co-owned by MUMA and the Waipareira Trust, yet not one word of that was spoken on Duncan’s show which highlights this is a grift, not a genuine crusade.

Indigenous culture’s everywhere have a shared experience of generational trauma alongside low education outcomes and high social poverty, and Māori are no different.

Include cosmology and mysticism, Māori like all indigenous cultures wounded by colonisation are open to cultural manipulations that manifest in unexpected ways.

Consider the hysteria over Māori anti-vaxxer Billy Te Kahika and notice the similarity between his conspiracy theory social media hype and these new Right Wing Māori Social Media Influencers.

Global Social Media Hate algorithms promoting conspiracy theories make a far larger digital footprint than reality and these voices look louder than they actually are.

70% of the Māori population are under the age of 40, their vehicle for comprehension is social media and these Toxic Right Wing Social Media Influencers are currency in their understanding of the world around them.

The threat their Tikanga Grift pose’s wider Māori-dom can’t be under appreciated, especially with the enormous cut backs in funding for Māori media.

In light of the utter failure of the Heal the Nation Hikoi failure however, those who platformed it need to be asked some hard questions.

Would Duncan Garner have fawned over Billy Te Kahika as embarrassingly as he did Shubz?

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