Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 25, 2023 9:15:07 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: CONSTANT DRIPPING WEARS AWAY A STONE - THE CLAIRE CHARTERS EXAMPLE
It is something of a mystery to this elderly New Zealander why, according to a report in “Fuseworks Media” for 22 November 2023, “Seventy per cent of New Zealanders believe it is important for Māori and non-Māori to decide together on an equal footing how te Tiriti o Waitangi is honoured.”
That in itself appears to me to be a response to what could indeed be a loaded question. Why, for instance, was the question not asked – if indeed it was worth asking at all:
“Do New Zealanders believe it is important to decide how the Treaty of Waitangi is honoured?” Why mention Maoris specifically at all, when the people of New Zealand have many ethnic origins and indeed there are probably no persons living of Maori descent who do not have descent from other ethnic sources as well? Does all this imply an “us” - our part-Maoris collectively – and “them” – everybody else?
Does it imply that the opinion of the 16% or so of us with some Maori ancestry ought to have equal weight with that of everybody else, assuming that is, that our part-Maoris have a “view” somewhat approaching unanimity? All just a little bit tricky perhaps??
Maybe the answer lies in the identity of her who appears to be the principal mover of this investigation, Claire Charters, the “Commission’s Rongomau Taketake (Indigenous Rights partner)”. Now this too, is curious because Ms Charters herself, as I understand it, is of three-quarters European descent and one-quarter Maori and on neither count, emphatically, is she “indigenous” to New Zealand! Whatever she may claim to know about “indigenous people” is almost wholly irrelevant because it is a fake claim that Maoris are “indigenous” in New Zealand.
We have had earlier occasions on which to reveal some of Ms Charters’ many fanciful illusions about the Treaty of Waitangi.[ii] We have noted in these columns how she used the occasion of delivering the Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture, an event with some prestige, to spout cheap political propaganda. Leopards do not often change their spots!.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/bruce-moon-constant-dripping-wears-away.html
It is something of a mystery to this elderly New Zealander why, according to a report in “Fuseworks Media” for 22 November 2023, “Seventy per cent of New Zealanders believe it is important for Māori and non-Māori to decide together on an equal footing how te Tiriti o Waitangi is honoured.”
That in itself appears to me to be a response to what could indeed be a loaded question. Why, for instance, was the question not asked – if indeed it was worth asking at all:
“Do New Zealanders believe it is important to decide how the Treaty of Waitangi is honoured?” Why mention Maoris specifically at all, when the people of New Zealand have many ethnic origins and indeed there are probably no persons living of Maori descent who do not have descent from other ethnic sources as well? Does all this imply an “us” - our part-Maoris collectively – and “them” – everybody else?
Does it imply that the opinion of the 16% or so of us with some Maori ancestry ought to have equal weight with that of everybody else, assuming that is, that our part-Maoris have a “view” somewhat approaching unanimity? All just a little bit tricky perhaps??
Maybe the answer lies in the identity of her who appears to be the principal mover of this investigation, Claire Charters, the “Commission’s Rongomau Taketake (Indigenous Rights partner)”. Now this too, is curious because Ms Charters herself, as I understand it, is of three-quarters European descent and one-quarter Maori and on neither count, emphatically, is she “indigenous” to New Zealand! Whatever she may claim to know about “indigenous people” is almost wholly irrelevant because it is a fake claim that Maoris are “indigenous” in New Zealand.
We have had earlier occasions on which to reveal some of Ms Charters’ many fanciful illusions about the Treaty of Waitangi.[ii] We have noted in these columns how she used the occasion of delivering the Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture, an event with some prestige, to spout cheap political propaganda. Leopards do not often change their spots!.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/bruce-moon-constant-dripping-wears-away.html