MEDIAWATCH: The whitewash by NZ MSM of Willie Jackson from the Oxford Debate
TVNZ should be deeply embarrassed with their whitewashed coverage of the Oxford Debate only focused on David Seymour and NEVER ONCE mentioned that Willie Jackson was there last year and he won!
NOT.
ONE.
MENTION!
Maybe it’s all the kids running the news rooms now, but utterly ignoring Willie Jackson winning last year suggests it’s deeper than Millennial news bosses.
Willie won it last year despite Winston Peters saying this…
…Since the speech, the British Museum has committed to returning more Māori relics…
From Matakana to London – printmaker visits UK capital to see taonga that inspired his art
The discussion around the return of indigenous artefacts to their countries of origin was highlighted earlier this year, when Willie Jackson visited London.
He became the first Māori to debate at Oxford Union, arguing why British Museums are very British.
“British Museums are very, very British. Because it’s very, very, very British to take from indigenous people and never give it back,” Jackson says.
…and Mākereti Papakura who he referenced in his opening has been awarded a posthumous degree…
Posthumous degree for “groundbreaking” Māori woman
A university has awarded a posthumous degree to its first female student from an indigenous community, more than 100 years after she began her studies.
Born in New Zealand in 1873, Mākereti Papakura is believed to be the first Māori woman to enrol at the University of Oxford.
The university said she had explored the customs of her people of the Māori Te Arawa iwi [tribe] from a female perspective through her “groundbreaking” research. But she died in 1930, just weeks before she was due to present her thesis.
Prof Irene Tracey, Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford, will award the degree of MPhil in Anthropology at a ceremony in the Sheldonian theatre later in the year.
…so not only did Willie win, his speech created real change.
How are dem cowboys Winston?
Willie’s son, Hiku produced one of the best stories of 2024…
…Willie got very little recognition for this.
David Seymour does the same debate 12months later, and karma is working mighty fast these days.
This is what David Seymour said when announcing he had been invited to the Oxford debate…
Seymour told the Herald he thought his invite was a “prank”.
“Then I realised that they also invited Willie Jackson, so it actually could be serious.”
…Seymour backhands Willie and then loses the debate and turns losing into an attack on the Maori Party…
…rather than acknowledge he slagged off Willie and then lost the debate Willie won, he’s now trying to compare him losing the Oxford debate to the Māori Party debate which just shows how far David is prepared to go to miss the point.
Karma is not only a bitch, she’s a right real ‘Brooke Van Velden”.
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Every nght Dallow spouts on in Te Reo looking smug while doing so .But under neath he is seething at the thought of doing anything Maori .The snub of Willie is just another show of how NZ is slipping back to the 1800s .My 12 year old grandson was telling me of an example at school on friday ,where a white farmers kid was telling one of the Maori boys how the white people had kicked Maori to the kerb in the 1800s and were going to do so again now .So how did this kid come up with that shit ,from his elders who have had several generations of farming on land stolen back in the 1800s kerb kicking land theft .I asked my grandson if he reminded the white boy that his family farm was stolen land and probably belongs to the Maori boys whanau .His reply was ,and get another bashing by the white brigade .My grand son is a skinny little white boy and gets the bash because he has embraced Maori studies at school and was the top student in those studies last year .
If it is any consolation, Aotearoa New Zealand is not the only Western nation embracing serious sociocultural decline due to red neck policy supported dumbfuckwittery … one need look no further than the MAGA culture and the rapid implosion of the USA. Would it really be a great surprise of the previously united states became, well, not so united? That is, the USA will break into 2 or more nation states bringing in more confusion and destabilisation?
TVNZ should be deeply ashamed of all it’s coverage. After your description of van Veldon on Q&A yesterday, we watched the news and there was some coverage. It must have come from another universe because there was nothing to suggest vV had been quelled.
TV3 only slightly better at times and the Herald, well, why bother?
I agree with Gordon above. Dallow spouting te reo all over the place, doesn’t mean a thing. PR at best.
The woman who shouts at us from parliament is dreadful too. She’s just another box ticked and that’s all that matters. The day is coming when she will be dispensed with.
Willie is the voice of reason and conciliation. I hope Labour doesn’t waste his talents like they wasted Parker’s. Willie would be a breath of fresh air, as leader, even if Hipkins speeches have improved. Jackson could do just as well. The Oxford debate proves that. If he takes the right by surprise, oh dear, how sad, what a pity!
Yes Joy the reporting of that Q&A interview was carefully edited and sanitised on TVNZ. Sadly it appears only RNZ is putting up some sort of push back to this abysmal excuse for a govt.
Project 2025
and all the while Luxon the robot, is “comfortable” with scapegoating and othering of Maori for political purposes. What a douche.