Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 17, 2023 10:24:16 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM?
For a hotbed of racist propaganda and dubious history one need look no further than a publication called “E-Tangata”. And for an extreme example from it, one need look no further that the article by Moana Maniapoto dated 12 November 2023.
The subject of her ire is the proposal by David Seymour for a referendum on the (so-called) Treaty of Waitangi, Seymour’s objective being to “to ensure that ‘all citizens have the same political rights’”. It is a cause for some reflection by ourselves that any senior politician would think such a referendum necessary but it surely indicates just how far democracy has degenerated under the recent but unlamented Labour government. However, to Maniapoto, it appears, the real problem is otherwise: there is an “elephant in the room” which is “ongoing colonization” and she sees Seymour’s proposal as something like “a call to war”. Well, well, they do sound a bit like fighting words.
Continuing, Maniapoto, asserts that “the thing is, most people with a handle on Te Tiriti say context is everything. History, too.” Well, Madam Maniapoto, that would, I presume, include Maori history. Do you know that it was of an excessively warlike tribal society which, having acquired firearms, was, in the Musket Wars of 1807-1837 well on the way to exterminating itself, the very effective practice of the victors being to eat the conquered? So much of the breeding population was killed that their numbers decreased in the first decades of the colonial period. Only extensive cross-breeding with the wicked, wicked colonials brought about a slow recovery about 1890......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/bruce-moon-elephant-in-room.html
For a hotbed of racist propaganda and dubious history one need look no further than a publication called “E-Tangata”. And for an extreme example from it, one need look no further that the article by Moana Maniapoto dated 12 November 2023.
The subject of her ire is the proposal by David Seymour for a referendum on the (so-called) Treaty of Waitangi, Seymour’s objective being to “to ensure that ‘all citizens have the same political rights’”. It is a cause for some reflection by ourselves that any senior politician would think such a referendum necessary but it surely indicates just how far democracy has degenerated under the recent but unlamented Labour government. However, to Maniapoto, it appears, the real problem is otherwise: there is an “elephant in the room” which is “ongoing colonization” and she sees Seymour’s proposal as something like “a call to war”. Well, well, they do sound a bit like fighting words.
Continuing, Maniapoto, asserts that “the thing is, most people with a handle on Te Tiriti say context is everything. History, too.” Well, Madam Maniapoto, that would, I presume, include Maori history. Do you know that it was of an excessively warlike tribal society which, having acquired firearms, was, in the Musket Wars of 1807-1837 well on the way to exterminating itself, the very effective practice of the victors being to eat the conquered? So much of the breeding population was killed that their numbers decreased in the first decades of the colonial period. Only extensive cross-breeding with the wicked, wicked colonials brought about a slow recovery about 1890......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/bruce-moon-elephant-in-room.html