Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 3, 2023 4:02:03 GMT 12
Wayne Ryburn: “WHEN TRUTH BECOMES DISTORTED AND MADE TO DISAPPEAR”
It is now becoming difficult to explain to young students, of 14-15 years of age, that there are differing perspectives of New Zealand's history, or that some of the Waitangi Tribunal’s history is simply myth making. Students believe what they read in the “Treaty of Waitangi” work book or what they see in many of the on-line videos they are directed to watch as being the truth. One such video clip shown is the joint production between Radio New Zealand and Tainui on the Waikato wars. In particular the claims that a massacre took place at Rangiaowhia, in February 1864, where women and children were raped and murdered by British troops! As the retelling of the story seems authentic it must then be an accurate account of what took place. Any other viewpoint is now deemed to be “racist” by students while those stories being shown are correct because they are being told from a “Maori viewpoint”......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/10/wayne-ryburn-when-truth-becomes.html
It is now becoming difficult to explain to young students, of 14-15 years of age, that there are differing perspectives of New Zealand's history, or that some of the Waitangi Tribunal’s history is simply myth making. Students believe what they read in the “Treaty of Waitangi” work book or what they see in many of the on-line videos they are directed to watch as being the truth. One such video clip shown is the joint production between Radio New Zealand and Tainui on the Waikato wars. In particular the claims that a massacre took place at Rangiaowhia, in February 1864, where women and children were raped and murdered by British troops! As the retelling of the story seems authentic it must then be an accurate account of what took place. Any other viewpoint is now deemed to be “racist” by students while those stories being shown are correct because they are being told from a “Maori viewpoint”......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/10/wayne-ryburn-when-truth-becomes.html