Waatea News Column: Julian Batchelor, anti co-governance and the rise of naked bigotry
Of genuine concern to all Kiwis is the naked bigotry that has been flamed by evangelical paster and supposed historian, Pastor Julian Batchelor.
Julian’s anti co-governance speaking tour has been righteously protested against up and down the country. He cherry picks facts and then presents those facts as evidence of a conspiracy by Māori ‘elite’ to secretly take over New Zealand.
The idea that the drive for co-governance and working together is really a secret plot to undermine the constitution speaks of an ignorance that has become weaponised bigotry!
Co-Governance was of course the elegant solution created by National and ACT to create partnerships to work alongside Māori with. To have these structures built by the political Right become misrepresented as a stealth attack on democracy by the Left is disingenuous in the extreme of Julian.
Painting attempts to live the Treaty in susch existential extremes demands of Julian’s followers extreme responses and is calling for a protest on the Election.
This racist friction will become unbearable this election, especially with ACT promising to force National into a referendum to redefine the Treaty and force that redefined Treaty upon Māori.
This election has the potential to unleash an anger generated by fear towards Māori the likes we haven’t seen in a long time.
First published on Waatea News.
National for one have been an embarrassment on this issue ( impressive when you would think Labour were embarrassing enough for everyone). Luxon is anti co governance at a central level but happy with it at a council level according to his own words. He’s also said he wants water assets to remain with those very same councils. Surely people can see what a line of bs that is. Just opposition for the sake of it riding along on the burning cross express. That’s the future PM. FFS
Unfortunately, people only see what they want to see, pick any topic where there should be evidence-based answers & you will find people making assumptions & coming to different conclusions.
Julian and Seymour Butt stoking the fires of fear sounds like the lead up to NZ Land Wars where the residents of Auckland were fearful of being attacked by Waikato and Ngati Maniapoto in the 1850’s???
Yep. Colon-ists to the very end.
It really is a wheel innit. Just keeps going round and round and not getting anywhere.
Or black workers could simply struggle together alongside workers of all other races, and abolish the exploitation of man by man, in one united labour movement. Ownership along clan bloodlines, segregated government, handouts to black millionaires — not progressive!
Black and Maori have the same amount of letters. Try typing Maori, because when you type Black, I automatically assume you are an inbred Boer.
It would appear that TPM at between 2 and 4 percent in the polls are not even getting Maori excited about co governance.
I think the only person excited by TPM is Martyn in the vain hope they will save the left from oblivion
Just looking at report on history of klukluxklan. These violent perverted ravers are ottt – evil worms in their heads. Batchelor could be the same.