Let’s be fair - not ALL Māoris.
Mostly the elitist Māoris hungry for power and wealth. You don’t see them anywhere near the underprivileged Māoris or NZers giving them a hand up.
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For me, the question is not whether you racist or not, but how racist. New Zealand is a racist society. Our society is multicultural, but our values are not, we do not actually embrace multiculturalism or biculturalism. Overall the dominant values of New Zealand are those of the white middle class.
Maori talk about institutional racism or systemic racism. Institutional racism is form of racism that is structured into political and social institutions. It occurs when organizations, institutions, or governments discriminate, either deliberately or indirectly, against certain groups of people to limit their rights. An example of this would be the Covid vaccination policy.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...-to-high-court
John Tamihere has argued that the Government's vaccine programme is failing Māori, and needs Māori health providers to step in to help raise their vaccination rates, which are the lowest by the ethnicity groups it measures.
Actually in most cases calling people racist is counterproductive. It is okay to call out speech, behaviour as racist, but that does not make a person a racist.
Hmm - you sound somewhat hysteric.
Not sure whether it matters who wrote it, but here we are: James Busby and William Hobson (British consul to NZ) wrote a draft treaty which was translated by Henry Williams (a missionary), and his son, Edward, into Māori. So - what?
But the discussion was whether a referendum about the treaty (or its interpretation) would be any helpful. Obviously - it would have no legal standing at all and it could at best capture which feelings some hyped up part of the people who happen to be governed by the legal representative of one of the treaties signatories might have today. So - what?
I absolutely agree in this point with Chris Luxon - a referendum about the interpretation of the treaty would be good for nothing, however it would be very decisive.
Wasn't the plan to unite the people instead of further splitting them?
But - why do we discuss this anyway on the thread of the Green party, and what is the point? Neither the former PM nor the future PM are any interested in this nonsense, and good on them. Just another timewaster from our master of conspiracy theories. You are as wrong with this as you have been with Covid vaccinations or with global warming.
That's the biggest hogwash I have seen in years. There was so much bending over backwards to get Maori vaccinated, note sure how you come to this conclusion.
Now that a large percentage of Maori did not want to get vaccinated, that I totally get. They remember well what happened to them in the past.
Hi Ithaca, bit how is a referendum going yo resolve that?
A referendum where 82% of the voting population are not Maori.
The vitriol around even using te reo in this country is ugly enough.
What do you think a referendum will do?
There are much better ways for the discussion to be had & Labour should have had them not covertly introduced policies not agreed or campaigned on.
I have seen the ugliness that The Voice referendum brought out in Australia.
Let's not repeat the same mistake here.
No, the treaty is VERY simple, and was designed to be so. A very well thought out and simple document. Everyone should read it.
Radical maori and dumb politicians over the years have made it look complicated, deliberately.
It is not that hard to understand.
No one is proposing to get rid of the Treaty, just to define how some people are interpreting it. (for their own advantage).
Universal "human rights", where all people are treated equally, is the ONLY way forward, and essentially is what the treaty is about.
Which is precisely why there should be a period of debate and discussions rather than the current one sided narrative that the Maori version is the only version and anyone questioning or debating its veracity is racist.
Heck, we know who are the racists - the elitist Māoris who has no interest in progressing NZ into a prosperous and fulfilling future for NZ. And they are assisted by the likes of Ardern & Hipkins whose only purpose in life is to be in power and for their own selfish egos.
And yet the crown ignored the obvious rights of Maori for the best part of 150 years. Are we surprised there is a reaction from Maori?
Labour went too far one way driven by the Maori caucus. Seymour is proposing going too far in the other direction.
Hopefully Luxon can be a moderating influence.