Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 29, 2024 6:04:06 GMT 12
Dr Michael Bassett: TV ONE STILL DOESN'T GET THE MESSAGE.
Then TV One’s Bulletin moved on to the case of a real estate agent who is objecting to being forced to complete a compulsory course on Maori culture and tikanga before she can renew her practising certificate. Surprise, surprise, who should be the reporter covering that story but the self-confessed Maori crusader, Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, whose lack of sympathy for the complainant oozed out of her every pore.
The realtor in question objects to the course being compulsory. She’s entitled to object, one would think.
Having to endure a course in Maori culture and tikanga mid-career, 184 years after the Treaty, when there are no longer any full-blooded Maori and their original tikanga has been almost completely forgotten, does seem rather ridiculous.
Given that the realtor practises in an area where about 50% of the people are Chinese, a course in Mandarin might be more help.
I must admit however, I’d have been inclined to take the Maori course, if only to see whether it was another tonne of tosh like so much “tikanga” these days: stuff invented in truck loads by a growing industry in search of opportunities to make money, and almost certainly happy, in this case, to take the credulous real estate industry on their virtue-signalling ride.
This, of course, is an every-day reality that a Maori crusader like Te Aniwa Hurihanganui could never concede. Is she really cut out for work with a state-funded media outlet that should be producing unbiased reporting?....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/02/dr-michael-bassett-tv-one-still-doesnt.html
Then TV One’s Bulletin moved on to the case of a real estate agent who is objecting to being forced to complete a compulsory course on Maori culture and tikanga before she can renew her practising certificate. Surprise, surprise, who should be the reporter covering that story but the self-confessed Maori crusader, Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, whose lack of sympathy for the complainant oozed out of her every pore.
The realtor in question objects to the course being compulsory. She’s entitled to object, one would think.
Having to endure a course in Maori culture and tikanga mid-career, 184 years after the Treaty, when there are no longer any full-blooded Maori and their original tikanga has been almost completely forgotten, does seem rather ridiculous.
Given that the realtor practises in an area where about 50% of the people are Chinese, a course in Mandarin might be more help.
I must admit however, I’d have been inclined to take the Maori course, if only to see whether it was another tonne of tosh like so much “tikanga” these days: stuff invented in truck loads by a growing industry in search of opportunities to make money, and almost certainly happy, in this case, to take the credulous real estate industry on their virtue-signalling ride.
This, of course, is an every-day reality that a Maori crusader like Te Aniwa Hurihanganui could never concede. Is she really cut out for work with a state-funded media outlet that should be producing unbiased reporting?....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/02/dr-michael-bassett-tv-one-still-doesnt.html