What actual segregation looks like in New Zealand
ACT screamed Māori and Pacifica Space at Auckland University amounted to ‘segregation’.
Luxon cried that it was ‘separatism’.
Winston roared that it was exactly the same as the KKK and Nazism.
Here’s what actual segregation in NZ looks like…
…that’s the 10 richest CEOs in NZ and they all be a whiter shade of beige!
When Elizabeth Rata coined the phrase ‘Ethno-Nationalist State‘ to describe attempts to share power with Māori as promised by the Treaty, every right winger wanting to be racist found glee in the shielding of their bigotry by the pretence of intellectualism.
What is most hilarious about Rata’s claims of Ethno-Nationalist State is that she is 100% right, it’s just that she’s right in a way she doesn’t want to admit to, which is NZ is an Ethno-Nationalist State, it’s just a White Ethno-Nationalist State.
Our systems of power and control are all white, our dominant culture is white, our benefitting from colonialism is white, our purposeful laws aimed at taking more Māori land were white, our confiscations are white, our dominant narrative is white.
So sure, NZ is an Ethno-Nationalist State, but for white people.
Any attempt to rebalance the damage caused by taking 90% of Māori land in less than a century and any attempt to live up to the promise of the Treaty must be denigrated and appallingly decried as apartheid.
The backbone of the economic success story that is NZ, is in stealing Māori land and NEVER paying the full price back!
On top of this is our reliance on a low wage economy using migrant labour to exploit.
So indigenous land theft alongside exploiting migrant labour, alongside exploiting basic bitch milk powder and basic agricultural product alongside and a self delusion that selling each other houses will lead to universal wealth is what holds our ‘economy’ together while white fragility dominates our culture..
We are a shallow juvenile settler country with all the cultural maturity of a can of day old coke, we are a low horizon people who lash out at others who see stars.
Our imaginations are glued to cow udders, rugby and cars.
To attempt a debate about identity when so many micro aggression trigger snowflakes are screaming is a feat beneath our collective dignity.
Co-Governance is the EXACT model that National and ACT developed, to now decry it because post covid stress has exacerbated economic anxieties isn’t leadership, it’s gutless capitulation to the lesser angels of our nature. What I find most hilarious is those screaming that Māori are taking over can’t name 3 councillors on their own local council.
3 Waters was an attempt to serve two maters, the Waitangi Tribunal ruling into water ownership triggered by Key selling 49% of the hydro assets and the need to find a way for Local Councils to fund water infrastructure. The way it has been manufactured into a racial smear on Nanaia Mahuta and her family DESPITE DECLARING ALL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST is proof positive that the angry and confused trump any attempt at rational debate.
What its most egregious is how these small attempts at creating basic consultation between the dominant culture and the indigenous culture they signed a Treaty with is now portrayed as a giant attack on the values of Democracy!
We are too brittle a people for the challenges in front of us.
The issue of 27 000 on emergency housing wait lists, 200 000 kids in poverty and a million being spent daily to kettle beneficiaries into unsafe motels are still here begging to be solved. Our inequality, our damaging mental illness crisis, the underfunded health system and education systems – all these things are demanding attention from the new Government and all they are providing are austerity and job cuts.
This National/ACT/NZ First hard right climate denying beneficiary bashing racist Government is the most extreme right wing Government this country has seen since Roger Douglas and the damage they are about to cause the NZ State will leave no fat, no muscle, no nerve endings and no bone.
They are mutilating the Egalitarian State and calling it performance art by using white fragility to manipulate voters into believing their worst redneck fears are about to be realised.
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It was the Labour government of Lange that ushered in neoliberalism. The Clarke government continued the same economic system but ran it efficiently for the benefit of most citizens. The Adern government did face some distractions but focused its attention on the grim pursuit of structural centralism and did nothing to help those people not benefitting from neoliberalism. It was the Bolger and the Key governments that provided real impetuous to Treaty Settlements.
It’s been a strange 40 years.
The groundwork for treaty settlements was laid by the Lange government in 1989, following the court ruling that all surplus crown land should be offered to iwi.
Fair call on Key and Bolger. Pity we have this iteration of, for the most part, total wankers in the National Party.
It was the Labour government of Lange that ushered in neoliberalism. The Clarke government continued the same economic system but ran it efficiently for the benefit of most citizens. The Adern government did face some distractions but focused its attention on the grim pursuit of structural centralism and did nothing to help those people not benefitting from neoliberalism. It was the Bolger and the Key governments that provided real impetuous to Treaty Settlements.
It’s been a strange 40 years.
Absolutely correct Martyn.
Those people earning boatloads of money are the people that, in a previous era, didn’t have a day off school to protest climate change, or anything else for that matter.
See what I did there? LOL
Ackshully being involved in the protest and taking an interest in our environment is a great learning opportunity for our rangatahi who will inherent the mess.
> What is most hilarious about Rata’s claims of Ethno-Nationalist State is that she is 100% right, it’s just that she’s right in a way she doesn’t want to admit to, which is NZ is an Ethno-Nationalist State, it’s just a White Ethno-Nationalist State
This is a prime example of what I call ‘political gaslighting’. Defending an injustice by decrying any attempt to address as being that injustice. It’s the classic tactic of charging a protester with assaulting a cop’s knee with their face.
> What is most hilarious about Rata’s claims of Ethno-Nationalist State is that she is 100% right, it’s just that she’s right in a way she doesn’t want to admit to, which is NZ is an Ethno-Nationalist State, it’s just a White Ethno-Nationalist State
This is a prime example of what I call ‘political gaslighting’. Defending an injustice by decrying any attempt to address as being that injustice. It’s the classic tactic of charging a protester with assaulting a cop’s knee with their face.
> What is most hilarious about Rata’s claims of Ethno-Nationalist State is that she is 100% right, it’s just that she’s right in a way she doesn’t want to admit to, which is NZ is an Ethno-Nationalist State, it’s just a White Ethno-Nationalist State
This is a prime example of what I call ‘political gaslighting’. Defending an injustice by decrying any attempt to address as being that injustice. It’s the classic tactic of charging a protester with assaulting a cop’s knee with their face.
We are more interested in league, soccer, basketball and hockey. Rugby union is a bit player.
Ackshully being involved in the protest and taking an interest in our environment is a great learning opportunity for our rangatahi who will inherent the mess.
Unfortunately the rich will always be amongst us. I’m fine with that when they drag us forward by doing something we all benefit from. I’m not fine with it when we allow wealth to dictate politics, when the wealthy get too much, when wealth seeks rent or extortionate profit.
In Aotearoa division by wealth is pakeha rich versus the rest. That’s poor pakeha, poor Maori, poor Pasifika. It might look racial, that’s what the rich want, to divide and rule. But it’s not, it us the poor versus them the wealthy.
“In Aotearoa division by wealth is pakeha rich versus the rest.”
Just a bit racist! The list was of CEOs receiving over remuneration.
Don’t worry there are very wealthy Maori, Chinese, Dallies, Indians, Indonesians, Russians, Poms, Americans, Scots and Aussies living here.
And dont forget the largest group of poor people in AoNZ are pakeha.
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