Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 15, 2023 9:30:47 GMT 12
Roger Childs: YET ANOTHER DREADFUL STUFFER ARTICLE
This was the title of a feature “Insight” article on the Tuesday before the final day of voting. The author Phillip Matthews was not identified in the usual way, and his writing was a mish-mash of bias half-truths, incorrect history and highly selective argument without evidence.
His basic message was that the Centre-Right parties, especially ACT and New Zealand First, have been critical of Maori “having a seat at the table” in the post-election government. Not once did he use the words democracy or equity, however, racist does feature. Equality features only once when he suggests bizarrely that Maori don’t have political equality.
No-one supports attacking people on the basis of their ethnicity – Jews, Muslims, Samoans, Tongans or part-Maori — however, Matthews is at pains to find examples of part-Maori being targeted in the election campaign. He never mentions that the Maori elites, educationalists and journalist are, like political leaders David Seymour and Winston Peters, predominantly descended from colonists with some Polynesian blood.
Like the rest of us they are all New Zealanders of mixed ancestry.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/10/roger-childs-yet-another-dreadful.html
This was the title of a feature “Insight” article on the Tuesday before the final day of voting. The author Phillip Matthews was not identified in the usual way, and his writing was a mish-mash of bias half-truths, incorrect history and highly selective argument without evidence.
His basic message was that the Centre-Right parties, especially ACT and New Zealand First, have been critical of Maori “having a seat at the table” in the post-election government. Not once did he use the words democracy or equity, however, racist does feature. Equality features only once when he suggests bizarrely that Maori don’t have political equality.
No-one supports attacking people on the basis of their ethnicity – Jews, Muslims, Samoans, Tongans or part-Maori — however, Matthews is at pains to find examples of part-Maori being targeted in the election campaign. He never mentions that the Maori elites, educationalists and journalist are, like political leaders David Seymour and Winston Peters, predominantly descended from colonists with some Polynesian blood.
Like the rest of us they are all New Zealanders of mixed ancestry.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/10/roger-childs-yet-another-dreadful.html