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  1. The violence prevention Minister now knows that ‘white cis men’ cause the violence in the world. The next step is to roll out violence prevention programs that target white cis men. To be inclusive and engaging, white cis male culture will need to be woven through these programs. Talk about interrogating dominant discourses – what a courageous shift! This challenges current policy focus Eg Te Rito New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy seeks to “Prioritise Maori-based approaches”. Standing up and telling Aotearoa to prioritise programs for white cis men! I am in awe of her bravery.

  2. Marama may simply be the simpleton that she appears to be. Let her eat chocolate, and hope that the right do call her out because sure as the sun will rise in the morning, nobody else will.

  3. We have to be very specific because Marama can’t extrapolate from her twitter feed a bunch of angry white cis males and then extrapolate that up into something structural and over arching because that puts large groups against another large group.

    Jacinda said explicitly they are not us. I think that’s a better place to start than all white men.

    We have to work with these guys. We need them to pull there finger as much as we need the greens to pull there finger out.

  4. I’m absolutely flabbergasted that Johnston could say such a thing.
    It’s amazing and so baffling that she might believe what she says, where the data or information she received to say it, and that it was perhaps not fact checked.

    The absolute difference to the reality that I have perceived is still very very surprising.

    Even though, the last few years and especially last few months have deeply embedded a disbelief of what I see in the MSMedia.

    I used believe every in the newspapers like the NZ Herald. Now everything I read in every outlet I assume has a 50/50 chance of being true or false, and needing fact checking research etc.

    Last time I was in Auckland District Court for an afternoon of observations for law students, I was actually very surprised and how small the percentage of white people was.

    Does Johnston visit different courts than I?
    Have things changed in the several years since I sat in Court?
    Do my eyes see colour differently than hers?
    ALL the cabinet papers?
    Where is this Police data she refers to?

    I wish it was illegal to publish lies.

    It should be illegal to single out any group of people, to publically disparage any group based on their skin colour, sexual preference or gender.

    What’s going on man?

    1. Clearly Davidson should have said ‘straight cis male’ to make the point. Again what do our actual numbers say?

      1. That would have been more accurate but still wrong.

        Unfortunately she didn’t say that and has taken no steps to clarify her comments in the last 48 hours, so all signs point to her meaning exactly what she said.

        1. What? Are you suggesting most cases of violence are not caused by cis males? I am sure cis females will get there one day but it would be hard to argue that’s not the current state of affairs overall

  5. “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

  6. Davidson is not particularly smart and clearly should be told where the door is. That said what do stats in NZ say? I know she said “world” but what are our numbers?

  7. Because she is clearly racist she will resign as Minister, won’t she? Will James Shaw and Chris Hipkins demand for her resignation be perceived as white male violence?

  8. Martyn her saying that cis white men cause the violence doesn’t mean they actually commit the violence. She could be claiming that the position cis white men occupy in society is the root cause of why non-whites commit violence, therefore even if they don’t commit violence themselves, they are still guilty of causing it.
    (To my mind, plain stupidity.)

  9. Maori make up around 16% of the population and commit 45% of crimes compared to “white” New Zealanders who make up 70% of the population and commit 38% of crime

  10. Who is CIS ? Are men not allowed to vote Green anymore. But they care about the planet to.

    1. No, white, heteronormative, cis* men are not allowed to vote for the Greens, you are only allowed to vote ACT, or National if you own more than 5 rental properties. It has been scientifically proven that you are incapable of caring for the planet, and are prone to violence & rape, so must vote ACT or cancel yourself.

      *Cis is a term used to describe someone who has a gender identity that matches their sex assigned at birth.

  11. Nothing new here except the faux insinuation that this is in fact a new development.

    The dogmas ‘believe women/children’, ‘all men are rapists’ and that they are the root cause of all violence has been a core call of hard core feminists since the 1960s, maybe earlier.

    Want confirmation? go read any copy of Broadsheet from the 70s or 80s.

  12. Thanks Helen for the socialogly lesson. That doesn’t leave me or other males many voting option s. ACT and that’s it. I had better study ACT ‘s policy s as I don’t no much about them. Apart from the guy that did dancing with t stars.

  13. Marama Davidson has been flaky from the start. To be sure she has the whakapapa for the role and the right connections but I suspect some in Greens at times secretly wish they had another Maori woman as coleader.

  14. If her comments were true she wouldn’t be alive today.

    NZ would be a completely different texture!!

  15. I’m libertarian-leaning but really appreciate your work, from what I have seen.
    The woke crowd are really doing the left a disservice, good old-school lefties are ditching the left in droves to come over to various more centrist or right-wing ideas.

    I don’t think we need to go through stats broken down by race to support or counter what Davidson said, she is wrong, we all know it. Violence happens among all races, in all countries, perhaps at varying levels, but then the stats are collected and reported in differing ways, etc… etc…
    What she said is moving us away from finding whatever solutions there may be. And that is more important than any of our petty ideologies or political leanings.

    Thanks, Martyn and commenters for fostering a bit of honest debate in an increasingly crazy world.

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