Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 23, 2019 16:55:30 GMT 12
'RACIST' PAMPHLET LIKELY TO CAUSE 'SERIOUS OFFENCE' AND MUST NOT BE DISTRIBUTED
A complaint about a racist pamphlet that is derogatory toward Māori has been partly upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority, which says it must be removed from circulation.
The leaflet, titled One Treaty One Nation, was dropped in letterboxes in the Auckland suburb of Pt Chevalier in April. It called for the Waitangi Tribunal and Māori electorates and wards to be scrapped.
It claimed "the benefits of colonisation for Maoris, lifting them out of a violent Stone Age existence, far outweighed any negative consequences" and called for "an end to the stranglehold that one minority group has over the culture and life of a nation".
The pamphlet also said the "Maori people ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria in 1840".....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12251825
A complaint about a racist pamphlet that is derogatory toward Māori has been partly upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority, which says it must be removed from circulation.
The leaflet, titled One Treaty One Nation, was dropped in letterboxes in the Auckland suburb of Pt Chevalier in April. It called for the Waitangi Tribunal and Māori electorates and wards to be scrapped.
It claimed "the benefits of colonisation for Maoris, lifting them out of a violent Stone Age existence, far outweighed any negative consequences" and called for "an end to the stranglehold that one minority group has over the culture and life of a nation".
The pamphlet also said the "Maori people ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria in 1840".....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12251825
