Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 8, 2023 15:44:06 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: SHOULD THESE BOOKS BE BURNT?
In “Stuff” for 2nd July 2023 there appears a piece by one Gabrielle McCullough, entitled “Racist Propaganda; The undercover campaign to infiltrate school libraries.” Wow! “Undercover”? That’s good, since the weapons used in this alleged “campaign” were actually books!! Hard covers or soft??
These books were published by independent publisher, Tross, of Khandallah, Wellington. Librarian Julia Smith at one school was “shocked” to find that a teacher had bought a couple of Tross books which were already on her library shelves. As the Stuff article continues:
“A historian had described the books as ‘racist propaganda’, and the publisher had a reputationi for distorting history. ‘I shared it with the head of history and Māori teachers who were both horrified,’ Smith said. ‘There were even tears.’”
The books, we are told, ‘were printed by Tross Publishing, a Kiwi company that has produced three books on New Zealand history in the past year. None of the authors appear to have relevant qualifications as historians. One book in its collection claims that the deaths of defenceless Māori women and children in the 1864 British invasion of Rangiaowhia are a myth,ii and another argues that the invasion of Māori at Parihaka was ‘inevitable and necessary.’”
Well now, just for a start:
1. Not one “defenceless Maori woman” nor child died in the 1864 action at Rangiaowhia. Any allegation to the contrary is a lie. Two Maori women, probably daughters of eye-swallower Kereopa Te Rau,iii did die in a hut following a sharp action in which Sergeant McHale had been shot dead when he entered it, calling for the occupants to surrender.iv
2. Rangiaowhia was British sovereign territory in the hands of rebels. To describe legitimate action for its recovery as an “invasion” is an abuse of the meaning of the word. The same applies for Parihaka.....
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In “Stuff” for 2nd July 2023 there appears a piece by one Gabrielle McCullough, entitled “Racist Propaganda; The undercover campaign to infiltrate school libraries.” Wow! “Undercover”? That’s good, since the weapons used in this alleged “campaign” were actually books!! Hard covers or soft??
These books were published by independent publisher, Tross, of Khandallah, Wellington. Librarian Julia Smith at one school was “shocked” to find that a teacher had bought a couple of Tross books which were already on her library shelves. As the Stuff article continues:
“A historian had described the books as ‘racist propaganda’, and the publisher had a reputationi for distorting history. ‘I shared it with the head of history and Māori teachers who were both horrified,’ Smith said. ‘There were even tears.’”
The books, we are told, ‘were printed by Tross Publishing, a Kiwi company that has produced three books on New Zealand history in the past year. None of the authors appear to have relevant qualifications as historians. One book in its collection claims that the deaths of defenceless Māori women and children in the 1864 British invasion of Rangiaowhia are a myth,ii and another argues that the invasion of Māori at Parihaka was ‘inevitable and necessary.’”
Well now, just for a start:
1. Not one “defenceless Maori woman” nor child died in the 1864 action at Rangiaowhia. Any allegation to the contrary is a lie. Two Maori women, probably daughters of eye-swallower Kereopa Te Rau,iii did die in a hut following a sharp action in which Sergeant McHale had been shot dead when he entered it, calling for the occupants to surrender.iv
2. Rangiaowhia was British sovereign territory in the hands of rebels. To describe legitimate action for its recovery as an “invasion” is an abuse of the meaning of the word. The same applies for Parihaka.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/07/bruce-moon-should-these-books-be-burnt.html
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