National MP for Rangitata James Meager may be Māori but his aspiration is all Settler!
Left doesn’t own poor, Māori: National MP James Meager’s revealing and personal maiden statement
James Meager’s experience as part-Māori, growing up poor, and hailing from a family of freezing workers proves left-wing parties aren’t the sole authority of New Zealand’s marginalised communities, the National MP claims.
Meager, elected by the Rangitata electorate, has delivered a boldly personal maiden statement in the House this afternoon as the first MP of the new Government to give his first address in the House.
…The left sure as fuck do not own the poor, workers or Māori but it sure as fuck is always the Right who bash the Christ out of the poor, workers and Māori first!
Meager is Māori, but his aspiration is the same white settler aspiration of pulling yourself up by your boot straps and ignoring all the injustice in the world to ensure you finish first!
That Meager believes far right ideological Frankenstein experiments like social investment is the solution shows how the Right will screw over the poor, workers and Māori!
It’s an audacity beyond audacity that Meagre is lashing the Left while his new hard right racist Government is ripping away worker rights, denigrating anything to do with Māori while taking $555million from the poorest families.
This new Government has made New Zealand Q Zealand and Meagre has the audacity to call the Left out?
Meagre’s word are pretty, they are the usual ‘I can do it, why can’t you’ mentality of settler culture.
Meagre is just another in a long line of people who overcome their past to use that as a weapon against everyone else. He didn’t learn compassion, only how to blow his own trumpet.
He’s just another Paula Bennett!
For those rich pricks screaming they are self made and fuck us for wanting a slice of their bread to properly fund society, let’s remember the email Steve Jobs sent to himself before he died…
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Inconveniently annoying for identity politics when people wont stay in their fucking lane isn’t it?
Well said Jack. I heard him speak 2 weeks ago and he came across as a genuine person who was proud of his heritage but had not used it as an excuse not to do well.
Kia ora .Read Michael King’s book ‘ The Penguin History of New Zealand ‘
It may give you an idea what you think of as heritage and doing well.
Just a thought, do you ever wonder why someone would describe themself as ‘ Part Māori ‘?
Left foot ? .. Right foot ? .. Think about It ?
It’s right up there with ‘ Captain Cook discovered New Zealand ‘
My impression is that Martyn is referring to attitude & not race in this article “Meager is Māori, but his aspiration is the same white settler aspiration of pulling yourself up by your boot straps and ignoring all the injustice in the world to ensure you finish first!” so while race is part of the discussion it is not the main point.
To the point Bonnie well done.
Bang on Jack, well said
Why the surprise? There’s plenty of poor Pakeha and plenty of Pakeha in Parliament that will see those poor Pakeha screwed over for the well off. This guy just gets to do it to both.
This ponce James is a classic potato like Tama Potaka and Dr Cigareti. Shane Reti was raised a mormon with the subsequent values, and was picked to “move up the ladder”, as was Shane Jones. The chosen one scenario is well known in Māoridom.
Māori are not required to have a particular view any more than pākehā and other tauiwi are. The facts are though in class left terms; that Māori are overwhelmingly working class, with some middle class and in academia, and a tiny group of full on capitalists.
A country still dealing with post colonial fall out and mass inequality does not need sellouts and aspirationals to help keep the bottom 50% in their place.
Fancy that. His mother made him go to school and success has followed.
What a surprise
and his father had a job…..
What is he like 37? I am sure he worked hard but I would argue things have got a lot harder economically and socially than starting school 3 decades ago.
What a load of racist wankers we have for a government and for what ?? Can someone please explain why we need a bonfire. What happens to the space it leaves behind , because those spaces are jobs. My prediction is that we will have the biggest exodus out of the country of the jobless because there is no incentive for people to stay.
You would all be lost without that word : racism.
What’s the moral of his story? That if your Maori father exits your childhood early, your non-Maori mother will raise you to be a success?
The guy is a fucking class traitor who has turned his back on his fellow workers. He wanted to make it harder for people like his parents by slashing wages and conditions and destroying the social safety net. Fuck him
Agree millsy. There is no need for anyone of whatever ethnic stripe, to crap on their own from a great height.
Crawlers, sellouts and opportunists impress few. The boss class love ’em for their usefulness, but also privately despise them.
Rangitata is a red neck electorate as is Ilam and there are a few other areas like this in Christchurch.
You obviously haven’t been to Timaru or Temuka.
Yes, and how many low income peoples and Māori would have voted for this twat not many I bet.
No shortage of lefties accusing Maori that don’t fit their stereotypes of being an uncle Tom.
He aligns himself with a party that wants to erode wages and conditions for his father, throw his mother out of state housing and erode social services. We should be protecting them, not throwing them to the wolves, like you want to do. Suggest you piss off the the USA
Perhaps you should pass off to Russia or N Korea. The workers have a great life there or so their leaders say they do .
Trade unions are effectively banned in Russia, and pensions have been slashed, so you would love it there.
It’s not about stereotypes jack, if anything James expresses himself the same as many of his right-wing colleagues, he is a tad patronizing, smug and arrogant. So, he has worked hard, good on him so do many other NZers including Māori.
Bomber at his racist ranting best.
James believes everyone has the same choice to be like James?
My god the boy has so much to learn!
Well said jack ( opening comment) James speaks truth.
Those who put in the effort to personally profit from colonial capitalism, whether they succeed or fail, can only be party to creating an unequal and bitterly divided society.
Those who put in the same effort for the well being of all, for kotahitanga and mana iwi, will be party to creating a community in which justice, equality and harmony reign.
I urge James to reflect on that.