Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 30, 2024 12:01:15 GMT 12
Bryce Edwards: PARLIAMENT’S INCREASINGLY TOXIC ETHNIC IDENTITY WARS.
The new version of the Māori Party, which regards its predecessors as too moderate, has decided to escalate the claims, obviously in the hope of getting more attention. Now, there are claims of “extermination”, “systematic genocide”, and “white supremacy” levelled at opponents.
Of particular note, Te Tai Tokerau MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi said in Parliament earlier this month that “this government will not waver in its mission to exterminate Māori”. She added that Karen Chhour was guilty of “white supremacy”.
When challenged about the accuracy of such claims – or whether such statements amount to “disinformation” – Kapa-Kingi explained that regardless of facts, she was talking about “feelings”, which she suggested were equally important.
Kapa-Kingi also explained why she chose the word exterminate: “I was very deliberate… that’s the word that has people sit up and take notice of what it feels like for our mokopuna and our whānau… If that’s the word that has people have feelings, and it seems people are having feelings, then so be it.”
Co-leader Rawiri Waititi backed her up, saying, “This is how we feel, and we will not be told how to feel”. He said Kapa-Kingi’s speech was “brilliant” and explained: “Many of the policy changes that this Government absolutely makes us feel like there [are] huge extermination processes and policies [aimed at] the very existence of tangata whenua in this country, so it was absolutely the right wording” – see Adam Pearse’s Herald article, Te Pāti Māori co-leaders back MP’s claim Govt is intent on exterminating Māori
Similarly, Co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer concurred. She had also critiqued the Government’s policy on tobacco, saying: “There is absolute deliberate intention of this government, as I said, to create systemic genocide.”....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/05/bryce-edwards-parliaments-increasingly.html
The new version of the Māori Party, which regards its predecessors as too moderate, has decided to escalate the claims, obviously in the hope of getting more attention. Now, there are claims of “extermination”, “systematic genocide”, and “white supremacy” levelled at opponents.
Of particular note, Te Tai Tokerau MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi said in Parliament earlier this month that “this government will not waver in its mission to exterminate Māori”. She added that Karen Chhour was guilty of “white supremacy”.
When challenged about the accuracy of such claims – or whether such statements amount to “disinformation” – Kapa-Kingi explained that regardless of facts, she was talking about “feelings”, which she suggested were equally important.
Kapa-Kingi also explained why she chose the word exterminate: “I was very deliberate… that’s the word that has people sit up and take notice of what it feels like for our mokopuna and our whānau… If that’s the word that has people have feelings, and it seems people are having feelings, then so be it.”
Co-leader Rawiri Waititi backed her up, saying, “This is how we feel, and we will not be told how to feel”. He said Kapa-Kingi’s speech was “brilliant” and explained: “Many of the policy changes that this Government absolutely makes us feel like there [are] huge extermination processes and policies [aimed at] the very existence of tangata whenua in this country, so it was absolutely the right wording” – see Adam Pearse’s Herald article, Te Pāti Māori co-leaders back MP’s claim Govt is intent on exterminating Māori
Similarly, Co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer concurred. She had also critiqued the Government’s policy on tobacco, saying: “There is absolute deliberate intention of this government, as I said, to create systemic genocide.”....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/05/bryce-edwards-parliaments-increasingly.html