Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 20, 2023 7:52:07 GMT 12
Peter Hemmingson: WHITE SETTLER ‘WICKEDNESS’?
Maori are great dissidents. Had Maori-speaking parents wanted to teach their children the Maori language, they would have done so.
Nobody could have stopped this from taking place at home, even if the children were forbidden to speak Maori at school.
Succeeding generations of Maori parents chose (for very valid reasons) not to teach the Maori language to their children outside the school gate, so demands that everyone else pay for its revival are difficult to support.
Nor should everyone else’s children now be forced to learn Maori at school.
While the Maori language and culture may be a very great treasure to those who value it, to those who do not, it is not.
Do it in your own time, and on your own dime.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/peter-hemmingson-white-settler.html
Maori are great dissidents. Had Maori-speaking parents wanted to teach their children the Maori language, they would have done so.
Nobody could have stopped this from taking place at home, even if the children were forbidden to speak Maori at school.
Succeeding generations of Maori parents chose (for very valid reasons) not to teach the Maori language to their children outside the school gate, so demands that everyone else pay for its revival are difficult to support.
Nor should everyone else’s children now be forced to learn Maori at school.
While the Maori language and culture may be a very great treasure to those who value it, to those who do not, it is not.
Do it in your own time, and on your own dime.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/peter-hemmingson-white-settler.html