Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 14, 2023 2:59:04 GMT 12
PASSENGER COMPLAINS OF RACIST NARRATIVE ON INTERISLANDER INFORMATION BOARDS
The Interislander is reviewing its information maps on board its ferries after a passenger called them out for being racist and a “yuck thing to put your name against”.
She told Stuff the map mentioned ”wholesale slaughter and cannibal feasting” and a confusion of cultures in a sentence about Europeans being “subsequently dispatched by tomahawk”.
One sentence says: “All 10 were ambushed, killed and eaten by local Maori [sic]”, with no mention of the impact Captain Cook, his men, and colonisation had on the nation.
“We know about kaitangata, that there was eating of other people, but we don’t talk about cannibalism. It makes it really primitive and removed from context.....
www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/131429717/passenger-complains-of-racist-narrative-on-interislander-information-boards
The Interislander is reviewing its information maps on board its ferries after a passenger called them out for being racist and a “yuck thing to put your name against”.
She told Stuff the map mentioned ”wholesale slaughter and cannibal feasting” and a confusion of cultures in a sentence about Europeans being “subsequently dispatched by tomahawk”.
One sentence says: “All 10 were ambushed, killed and eaten by local Maori [sic]”, with no mention of the impact Captain Cook, his men, and colonisation had on the nation.
“We know about kaitangata, that there was eating of other people, but we don’t talk about cannibalism. It makes it really primitive and removed from context.....
www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/131429717/passenger-complains-of-racist-narrative-on-interislander-information-boards