Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 20, 2021 10:22:12 GMT 12
Geoff Parker: THE AUTHORITARIAN NOOSE TIGHTENS
NZME’s latest victim is the renowned historian, Dr Michael Bassett. Despite his outstanding achievements and experience in academia, politics, justice and the media, NZME chose to support a single reader’s attack on Dr Bassett. At issue was his article “New Zealand’s Modern Cultural Cringe” which was published in the Northland Age and on the NZ Herald website earlier this month.
NZME’s managing editor Shayne Currie claimed the article was “unacceptable” and commentary from the former cabinet minister and historian “will no longer appear on our platforms.”
Professor Bassett’s supposed crime was calling out the absurdities and racism behind the “bizarre craze” that we “embrace all things Maori”, while setting aside “all things derived from Europe, except our creature comforts”. (I presume that includes the cowboy hat affixed to the head of the Maori Party MP Rawiri Waititi; he’s the one who refuses to wear a tie – sorry, a “colonial noose” – in Parliament).
Bassett’s article references some of the fabricated “things Maori” that are being imposed upon us without discussion, debate or referendum. The use of Aotearoa is a prime example. The fact is that the many, separate Maori tribes never had a name for the whole country until the ‘white man’ created Nu Tireni/Nu Tirani for the 1835 Declaration of Independence and 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
The absurdities include the cost of churning out newly created te reo for the renaming of government departments, their policies and our streets, resulting in ongoing confusion to all ethnicities – even those raised in Maori speaking households.
The most destructive of such fabrications has to be the “partnership” lie that has been used to attack our democracy in recent decades. No one has ever found any reference to ‘partnership’ in the Treaty of Waitangi. The over 500 tribal chiefs who had been at each other’s throats for 3 decades prior to 1840 certainly didn’t form any sort of united governing body with which Queen Victoria could do such a deal with − even if the Crown entering into a partnership with any of its subjects was constitutionally possible!……
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/03/geoff-parker-authoritarian-noose.html
NZME’s latest victim is the renowned historian, Dr Michael Bassett. Despite his outstanding achievements and experience in academia, politics, justice and the media, NZME chose to support a single reader’s attack on Dr Bassett. At issue was his article “New Zealand’s Modern Cultural Cringe” which was published in the Northland Age and on the NZ Herald website earlier this month.
NZME’s managing editor Shayne Currie claimed the article was “unacceptable” and commentary from the former cabinet minister and historian “will no longer appear on our platforms.”
Professor Bassett’s supposed crime was calling out the absurdities and racism behind the “bizarre craze” that we “embrace all things Maori”, while setting aside “all things derived from Europe, except our creature comforts”. (I presume that includes the cowboy hat affixed to the head of the Maori Party MP Rawiri Waititi; he’s the one who refuses to wear a tie – sorry, a “colonial noose” – in Parliament).
Bassett’s article references some of the fabricated “things Maori” that are being imposed upon us without discussion, debate or referendum. The use of Aotearoa is a prime example. The fact is that the many, separate Maori tribes never had a name for the whole country until the ‘white man’ created Nu Tireni/Nu Tirani for the 1835 Declaration of Independence and 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
The absurdities include the cost of churning out newly created te reo for the renaming of government departments, their policies and our streets, resulting in ongoing confusion to all ethnicities – even those raised in Maori speaking households.
The most destructive of such fabrications has to be the “partnership” lie that has been used to attack our democracy in recent decades. No one has ever found any reference to ‘partnership’ in the Treaty of Waitangi. The over 500 tribal chiefs who had been at each other’s throats for 3 decades prior to 1840 certainly didn’t form any sort of united governing body with which Queen Victoria could do such a deal with − even if the Crown entering into a partnership with any of its subjects was constitutionally possible!……
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/03/geoff-parker-authoritarian-noose.html