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Hawkes Bay Today 26/3/19
SALMOND’S NZ WHITE SUPERIORITY CLAIM WIDE OF MARK
Dame Anne Salmond, New Zealander of the Year in 2013, says white supremacy is a dark power in New Zealand. She also asserts white superiority is not restricted to Maori, but spills out over other groups, including Muslims. The Christchurch tragedy is proof of that, she maintains.
To link any perceived white superiority in New Zealand with events in Christchurch is misguided, illogical and opportunistic. No New Zealander committed a crime against Muslims in Christchurch. The alleged murderer might be a white supremacist, but he has little to do with the so-called white supremacists Salmond says are so prevalent in New Zealand.
As for te reo Maori being worthless, I have yet to hear one New Zealander say so. What I have heard is that English should be the preferred option if opportunities are to be taken. That is not being racist or supremacist, instead factual and logical.
Salmond blames white supremacism for “incarcerating young Maori in large numbers”. The rate of offending, of course, does not come into her calculations. And in any case, the rate may not be as alarming as she makes out. Many could be of less than 50 per cent Maori blood.
MARK TAYLOR Havelock North
Northland Age 26/3/19
WHAT'S IMPORTANT?
I was surprised that your paper would print Anahera Herbert-Graves "Some Questions" (March 20).
Her efforts to stir up anti-white racism can hardly be considered In-keeping with the country's mood of love, support and tolerance after the horrific terrorist attack in Christchurch.
We need to be looking to the future, politely debating how to move our country forward while protecting all our people.
We do not need to resort to troublemaking about what did or didn't happen hundreds of years ago.
FIONA MACKENZIE Whangaparaoa
COLUMN CONDEMNED
Our Prime Minister is exhorting Kiwis to stand together in the face of hate and division, and to speak out against those who peddle bigotry, prejudice and racism.
In this vein l am responding to the Anahera Herbert-Graves inflammatory commentary "Some Questions" (March 19) an example of the hate speech we so rightly condemn.
The cynical exploitation of the tragedy in Christchurch, to promote a self-serving political agenda, is a new low.
Her warped version of our history, with scant regard for the facts, is fanning the flames of division and hatred, resulting in racial disharmony. Surely we are better than this.
SUSAN SHORT Meadowbank
TOXIC RESENTMENT
Anahera Herbert-Craves' column 'Some questions' raised some good questions regarding the security forces' lapse in not detecting the perpetrator of the hideous Christchurch terror attack, even if the conclusions were a stretch.
It went rapidly downhill from there into a deceitful, hateful, resentful and divisive racist tirade. Not a word of sympathy for the poor victims or their devastated loved ones.
Anahera, flushed with toxic resentment, forgot to put on her mask, her pretence of compassion, it appears. If the result is an increase in resentment, hate and division, then it's reasonable to conclude that that was the intention.
DAVID GEORGE Kerikeri
DEPLORABLE
Re Hilda Halkyard-Harawira (letters March 19). In using twisted propaganda the Marxists, letftists, anti-gun brigade and Maori sovereignty movement milk a sad event for all it is worth. It is deplorable to use such a tragic happening to promote one's cause.
I have yet to see any writers promoting 'white is right: as she asserts. What I have seen is the opposite, concerned Kiwis promoting racial equality and one law for all, which, after all, is what we should all be aspiring to, and what was signed up to in 1840.
Most fair-minded Kiwis do not denigrate Maori as Ms Halkyard-Harawira avows, however they do legitimately oppose race-based policies and/or entitlements based on lies using guilt as a motivation.
To back up her cry of 'institutional racism', I wonder if Ms Halkyard-Harawira can provide evidence of a law, or some rule that is in place with the specific purpose of negatively subjecting a race to oppression in New Zealand? I believe this neogolism exists only in the minds of tribalists and their sycophants.
GEOFF PARKER Kamo
RACIST UNDERBELLY
If Dame Salmon (NZ Herald 19-3-19) asked anybody in China if they had the best country, culture or ideals in the world, they would say 'yes'. Such would be the response in any country pretty much anywhere in the world.
It is not racist to think your culture, values or country are the best in the world.
It is what you know and virtually every person in the world thinks the same way. It is the reason why immigrants around the world bring their food, religion and their customs to the country they settle.
Unfortunately the tragedy of Christchurch seems to have given a green light for open criticism and vitriol towards those of European descent.
The crimes and attitudes of one person have been placed on an entire ethnic group. It is racist and it is utterly deplorable.
Although this is the tone we have set after this terrorist attack, I doubt the same will apply towards the representative gimp of the next terrorist attack.
KENT MILLAR Blockhouse Bay
NOT ONE PEOPLE
At last the motto of Hobson's Pledge, the maxim for which Don Brash has been constantly vilified and satirised in the media, has been accepted by the Prime Minister in her comfortingly inclusive phrase to Muslim immigrants; "We are one people."
No, Ms. Ardern, we will not be one people' until you and your government return to all New Zealanders the same exclusive privileges you have bestowed on the 15 per cent part-Maori in the community and correct the national injustices resulting from the political and judicial revisions of the 70s, until the ethnically exclusive institution, the Waitangi Tribunal, is removed, until you make us truly one people, New Zealanders, and not accept groups claiming ethnic privilege.
Yes, Prime Minister, as you have publicly stated recently, New Zealand is a racist nation. The racism is the government's exclusively favoured treatment of Maori.
BRYAN JOHNSON Omokoroa
SICKENING HYPOCRISY
The whole of New Zealand must surely be in a sustained state of shock about the Christchurch mosque killings by a fanatical extremist from an introverted small Australian town where anybody from ten miles away is a foreigner. Sadly this has given our own racist extremists a chance to make political capital by attempting to tar with the same brush all those moderate New Zealanders who do not share their views. Prime among them would be Dame Anne Salmond, the darling of the establishment, writing in the “Herald” for 19th March under the headline of the “Racist underbelly seethes just beneath the surface”. She writes of the “doctrine of white superiority” as if every New Zealander of European descent without a trace of maori ancestry believed it. She continues with many distorted opinions on New Zealand history, referring to maoris as “indigenous” which is an abuse of words. Her hypocrisy is sickening.
Then we have Dr Liz Gordon in her “Daily Blog” for 18th March writing similarly under her headline of “The racist right in Aotearoa”. This is the same Liz Gordon who, as an undergraduate, was so intolerant that she walked out of a lecture by the David Round, very well-informed in Treaty of Waitangi issues, who had pointed out the many falsehoods in the official version. with its promulgation of Freeman’s fake “Treaty in English”. Her hypocrisy is sickening.
Again, in the “Rotorua Daily Post” Tama Iti alleges the existence of an “ingrained redneck culture in ... Christchurch ... and he had for years warned of their dangerous attitude,” By such means he accuses the people of Christchurch of guilt by association with the ghastly event which occurred in their midst. This is the same Tama Iti who avoided a terrorist charge by a flaw in the legislation and was imprisoned on firearms charges with some evidence that members of his tribe were preparing to use them against innocent white fellow-citizens. His hypocrisy is sickening.
In “Waatea News” for 19th March, Manuka Henare writes under the headline “Maori battle against fascism continues”. Indeed? It is people of part-Maori descent such as he who continue to argue for special rights and privileges and superior rights of representation of their kind on official bodies. That is the essence of fascism. They are the fascists in our midst. His hypocrisy is sickening.
And when the Christchurch mosque re-opened, some members of Ngai Tahu, a tribe of rampant fraudsters, usurped the position of the grieving congregation by proceeding to it ahead of them. Their hypocrisy is sickening.
And Phil Goff chimes in by claiming that this single atrocity by an outsider justifies his denial of free speech to other visitors whose political opinions appeared to differ from his own. If there is any significant islamaphobia in New Zealand, can he not see that it is far better that it be identified and talked about openly? Our right to free speech is too precious for him to deny it. His hypocrisy is sickening.
It was a relief indeed to read in the “Gisborne Herald” for 16th March, the words of Matthew Tukaki, Director of the New Zealand Maori Council, who addressed us all with “I can tell all New Zealanders, all Maori, that as we stand together we must never be divided”. That should be the keystone of all policy on our country. Sadly we are sinking into a mire where it is forgotten.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
NZ Herald 26/3/19
NOT ONE PEOPLE
I did think our Prime Minister was handling the recent unexpected situation in Christchurch extremely well until I heard her repeatedly say, “We are one”. We are not “one” but we are united in grief. We never will be “one”’ as long as the seven Maori seats remain as part of our parliamentary system and all ethnic groups living within our country are considered to be “equal”.
NEIL JENKINS, Mt Eden.
Dominion Post 26/3/19 (In a few words section)
Is a bunch of blokes in armour on horseback any more ferocious, aggressive and intimidating than the belligerent, gang-crowded haka that were given, inappropriately, during the consolation and support gatherings for the Muslim community in Christchurch? Scarcely peace-inducing.
BRYAN JOHNSON, Omokoroa
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
SALMOND’S NZ WHITE SUPERIORITY CLAIM WIDE OF MARK
Dame Anne Salmond, New Zealander of the Year in 2013, says white supremacy is a dark power in New Zealand. She also asserts white superiority is not restricted to Maori, but spills out over other groups, including Muslims. The Christchurch tragedy is proof of that, she maintains.
To link any perceived white superiority in New Zealand with events in Christchurch is misguided, illogical and opportunistic. No New Zealander committed a crime against Muslims in Christchurch. The alleged murderer might be a white supremacist, but he has little to do with the so-called white supremacists Salmond says are so prevalent in New Zealand.
As for te reo Maori being worthless, I have yet to hear one New Zealander say so. What I have heard is that English should be the preferred option if opportunities are to be taken. That is not being racist or supremacist, instead factual and logical.
Salmond blames white supremacism for “incarcerating young Maori in large numbers”. The rate of offending, of course, does not come into her calculations. And in any case, the rate may not be as alarming as she makes out. Many could be of less than 50 per cent Maori blood.
MARK TAYLOR Havelock North
Northland Age 26/3/19
WHAT'S IMPORTANT?
I was surprised that your paper would print Anahera Herbert-Graves "Some Questions" (March 20).
Her efforts to stir up anti-white racism can hardly be considered In-keeping with the country's mood of love, support and tolerance after the horrific terrorist attack in Christchurch.
We need to be looking to the future, politely debating how to move our country forward while protecting all our people.
We do not need to resort to troublemaking about what did or didn't happen hundreds of years ago.
FIONA MACKENZIE Whangaparaoa
COLUMN CONDEMNED
Our Prime Minister is exhorting Kiwis to stand together in the face of hate and division, and to speak out against those who peddle bigotry, prejudice and racism.
In this vein l am responding to the Anahera Herbert-Graves inflammatory commentary "Some Questions" (March 19) an example of the hate speech we so rightly condemn.
The cynical exploitation of the tragedy in Christchurch, to promote a self-serving political agenda, is a new low.
Her warped version of our history, with scant regard for the facts, is fanning the flames of division and hatred, resulting in racial disharmony. Surely we are better than this.
SUSAN SHORT Meadowbank
TOXIC RESENTMENT
Anahera Herbert-Craves' column 'Some questions' raised some good questions regarding the security forces' lapse in not detecting the perpetrator of the hideous Christchurch terror attack, even if the conclusions were a stretch.
It went rapidly downhill from there into a deceitful, hateful, resentful and divisive racist tirade. Not a word of sympathy for the poor victims or their devastated loved ones.
Anahera, flushed with toxic resentment, forgot to put on her mask, her pretence of compassion, it appears. If the result is an increase in resentment, hate and division, then it's reasonable to conclude that that was the intention.
DAVID GEORGE Kerikeri
DEPLORABLE
Re Hilda Halkyard-Harawira (letters March 19). In using twisted propaganda the Marxists, letftists, anti-gun brigade and Maori sovereignty movement milk a sad event for all it is worth. It is deplorable to use such a tragic happening to promote one's cause.
I have yet to see any writers promoting 'white is right: as she asserts. What I have seen is the opposite, concerned Kiwis promoting racial equality and one law for all, which, after all, is what we should all be aspiring to, and what was signed up to in 1840.
Most fair-minded Kiwis do not denigrate Maori as Ms Halkyard-Harawira avows, however they do legitimately oppose race-based policies and/or entitlements based on lies using guilt as a motivation.
To back up her cry of 'institutional racism', I wonder if Ms Halkyard-Harawira can provide evidence of a law, or some rule that is in place with the specific purpose of negatively subjecting a race to oppression in New Zealand? I believe this neogolism exists only in the minds of tribalists and their sycophants.
GEOFF PARKER Kamo
RACIST UNDERBELLY
If Dame Salmon (NZ Herald 19-3-19) asked anybody in China if they had the best country, culture or ideals in the world, they would say 'yes'. Such would be the response in any country pretty much anywhere in the world.
It is not racist to think your culture, values or country are the best in the world.
It is what you know and virtually every person in the world thinks the same way. It is the reason why immigrants around the world bring their food, religion and their customs to the country they settle.
Unfortunately the tragedy of Christchurch seems to have given a green light for open criticism and vitriol towards those of European descent.
The crimes and attitudes of one person have been placed on an entire ethnic group. It is racist and it is utterly deplorable.
Although this is the tone we have set after this terrorist attack, I doubt the same will apply towards the representative gimp of the next terrorist attack.
KENT MILLAR Blockhouse Bay
NOT ONE PEOPLE
At last the motto of Hobson's Pledge, the maxim for which Don Brash has been constantly vilified and satirised in the media, has been accepted by the Prime Minister in her comfortingly inclusive phrase to Muslim immigrants; "We are one people."
No, Ms. Ardern, we will not be one people' until you and your government return to all New Zealanders the same exclusive privileges you have bestowed on the 15 per cent part-Maori in the community and correct the national injustices resulting from the political and judicial revisions of the 70s, until the ethnically exclusive institution, the Waitangi Tribunal, is removed, until you make us truly one people, New Zealanders, and not accept groups claiming ethnic privilege.
Yes, Prime Minister, as you have publicly stated recently, New Zealand is a racist nation. The racism is the government's exclusively favoured treatment of Maori.
BRYAN JOHNSON Omokoroa
SICKENING HYPOCRISY
The whole of New Zealand must surely be in a sustained state of shock about the Christchurch mosque killings by a fanatical extremist from an introverted small Australian town where anybody from ten miles away is a foreigner. Sadly this has given our own racist extremists a chance to make political capital by attempting to tar with the same brush all those moderate New Zealanders who do not share their views. Prime among them would be Dame Anne Salmond, the darling of the establishment, writing in the “Herald” for 19th March under the headline of the “Racist underbelly seethes just beneath the surface”. She writes of the “doctrine of white superiority” as if every New Zealander of European descent without a trace of maori ancestry believed it. She continues with many distorted opinions on New Zealand history, referring to maoris as “indigenous” which is an abuse of words. Her hypocrisy is sickening.
Then we have Dr Liz Gordon in her “Daily Blog” for 18th March writing similarly under her headline of “The racist right in Aotearoa”. This is the same Liz Gordon who, as an undergraduate, was so intolerant that she walked out of a lecture by the David Round, very well-informed in Treaty of Waitangi issues, who had pointed out the many falsehoods in the official version. with its promulgation of Freeman’s fake “Treaty in English”. Her hypocrisy is sickening.
Again, in the “Rotorua Daily Post” Tama Iti alleges the existence of an “ingrained redneck culture in ... Christchurch ... and he had for years warned of their dangerous attitude,” By such means he accuses the people of Christchurch of guilt by association with the ghastly event which occurred in their midst. This is the same Tama Iti who avoided a terrorist charge by a flaw in the legislation and was imprisoned on firearms charges with some evidence that members of his tribe were preparing to use them against innocent white fellow-citizens. His hypocrisy is sickening.
In “Waatea News” for 19th March, Manuka Henare writes under the headline “Maori battle against fascism continues”. Indeed? It is people of part-Maori descent such as he who continue to argue for special rights and privileges and superior rights of representation of their kind on official bodies. That is the essence of fascism. They are the fascists in our midst. His hypocrisy is sickening.
And when the Christchurch mosque re-opened, some members of Ngai Tahu, a tribe of rampant fraudsters, usurped the position of the grieving congregation by proceeding to it ahead of them. Their hypocrisy is sickening.
And Phil Goff chimes in by claiming that this single atrocity by an outsider justifies his denial of free speech to other visitors whose political opinions appeared to differ from his own. If there is any significant islamaphobia in New Zealand, can he not see that it is far better that it be identified and talked about openly? Our right to free speech is too precious for him to deny it. His hypocrisy is sickening.
It was a relief indeed to read in the “Gisborne Herald” for 16th March, the words of Matthew Tukaki, Director of the New Zealand Maori Council, who addressed us all with “I can tell all New Zealanders, all Maori, that as we stand together we must never be divided”. That should be the keystone of all policy on our country. Sadly we are sinking into a mire where it is forgotten.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
NZ Herald 26/3/19
NOT ONE PEOPLE
I did think our Prime Minister was handling the recent unexpected situation in Christchurch extremely well until I heard her repeatedly say, “We are one”. We are not “one” but we are united in grief. We never will be “one”’ as long as the seven Maori seats remain as part of our parliamentary system and all ethnic groups living within our country are considered to be “equal”.
NEIL JENKINS, Mt Eden.
Dominion Post 26/3/19 (In a few words section)
Is a bunch of blokes in armour on horseback any more ferocious, aggressive and intimidating than the belligerent, gang-crowded haka that were given, inappropriately, during the consolation and support gatherings for the Muslim community in Christchurch? Scarcely peace-inducing.
BRYAN JOHNSON, Omokoroa
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers