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Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 2, 2019 6:38:31 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: DEATH SHIP COMMENT AND RESPONSEBruce Moon Response: It would be hard to find more distorted and alarming rhetoric than the reaction of Dr Arama Rata, a senior research fellow at Waikato University, to the impending arrival of the replica of Cook’s ship, HMB “Endeavour”; of her description of it as a “death ship” and brazen claim that the “mentality that Cook brought over, and the project here was to really eliminate Maori, to dispossess Maori, and to replace Maori with Pakeha settlers”. (“Stuff”, 27/9/19). (I omit the redundant macrons which liberally bestrew the that report.) It would be more enlightening to address the nature of the society Cook and other early explorers found on their landfall in New Zealand – a brutal and savage Stone Age society with cannibalism,[1] slavery and infanticide rampant. The real “death ships” were the canoes of the invaders from eastern Polynesia a few centuries earlier who proceeded ruthlessly to eliminate the genuinely indigenous people whom they found here.[2]....... breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2019/10/bruce-moon-death-ship-comment-and.html
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