Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 17, 2016 9:29:36 GMT 12
Northland Age 17/3/16
RACISM OR "SPECIAL"?
Labour's Maori Affairs spokesman Kelvin Davis decries TVNZ's survey questionnaire regarding attitudes towards "Maori should not receive any special treatment" as being "racist and offensive". Mr Davis seems to have become engulfed in the morass of political correctness, where words don't mean what they really mean but are instead 'adapted' to fit a specific agenda.
There should be no confusion over the meaning of racism. Dictionary after dictionary provides similar definitions, with a common denominator of racism being either one group of people being persecuted because of their ethnicity or alternatively, receiving favourable (special) treatment because of their race. So that is racism.
The Treaty of Waitangi is not a racist document as it espouses equal rights for all New Zealand citizens. It is the misinterpretations by those who stand to gain that have distorted a history-making document of unity into becoming one of divisiveness.
The concept of Maori receiving special treatment is indeed racist and offensive, but only to the majority who value the principles of democracy above exclusive favours being granted because of one's race. Mr Davis appears to have swallowed the oxymoronic doctrine that those who wish everyone to have equal rights are the racists. Political correctness can make fools out of otherwise intelligent people.
M M
Kaipara
NZ Herald 17/3/16 (Short & Sweet section)
ON MUSTER
There is one brilliant way of cutting down the number of Maori in prison. Stop committing the crimes.
M. B
Tauranga.
Hawkes Bay Today 17/3/16 (Text Us section)
■ If the Maori people have $0.5 billion in Treaty settlement money as Ngahiwi Tomoana boasted, then why don't they build their own kura on their own marae?
JC
RACISM OR "SPECIAL"?
Labour's Maori Affairs spokesman Kelvin Davis decries TVNZ's survey questionnaire regarding attitudes towards "Maori should not receive any special treatment" as being "racist and offensive". Mr Davis seems to have become engulfed in the morass of political correctness, where words don't mean what they really mean but are instead 'adapted' to fit a specific agenda.
There should be no confusion over the meaning of racism. Dictionary after dictionary provides similar definitions, with a common denominator of racism being either one group of people being persecuted because of their ethnicity or alternatively, receiving favourable (special) treatment because of their race. So that is racism.
The Treaty of Waitangi is not a racist document as it espouses equal rights for all New Zealand citizens. It is the misinterpretations by those who stand to gain that have distorted a history-making document of unity into becoming one of divisiveness.
The concept of Maori receiving special treatment is indeed racist and offensive, but only to the majority who value the principles of democracy above exclusive favours being granted because of one's race. Mr Davis appears to have swallowed the oxymoronic doctrine that those who wish everyone to have equal rights are the racists. Political correctness can make fools out of otherwise intelligent people.
M M
Kaipara
NZ Herald 17/3/16 (Short & Sweet section)
ON MUSTER
There is one brilliant way of cutting down the number of Maori in prison. Stop committing the crimes.
M. B
Tauranga.
Hawkes Bay Today 17/3/16 (Text Us section)
■ If the Maori people have $0.5 billion in Treaty settlement money as Ngahiwi Tomoana boasted, then why don't they build their own kura on their own marae?
JC