Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 22, 2020 12:11:10 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: RACIAL PRIVILEGE AT OTAGO UNIVERSITY
“Ethnicity is not shaped in the womb but in the head.” - David Miles, The Tribes of Britain, 2005, p.178
The current active discussion on policy for selection of entrants to the University of Otago Medical School reveals much of the accelerating racism which blights our once fair democracy of New Zealand.
That policy as it stands grants preferential entry to students who claim Maori or Pasifica ancestry and the first question that it raises is just what in fact that qualification may be?
Who, in short, is a Maori?
I recall seeing in the fairly recent past a photograph of a group of Otago graduates in medicine at a special graduation ceremony for students of Maori descent. (Why they should have been granted this privilege by such a racist criterion is another question to address.) All had names from the British Isles. Several were blondes. Typically Maori features were hard to distinguish in any of them. That outcomes are better for people of more significant Maori descent from treatment by such practitioners rather than those with no Maori ancestry is at best, I suggest, a very dubious conclusion though no doubt there are people who claim it to be true......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2020/09/bruce-moon-racial-privilege-at-otago.html
“Ethnicity is not shaped in the womb but in the head.” - David Miles, The Tribes of Britain, 2005, p.178
The current active discussion on policy for selection of entrants to the University of Otago Medical School reveals much of the accelerating racism which blights our once fair democracy of New Zealand.
That policy as it stands grants preferential entry to students who claim Maori or Pasifica ancestry and the first question that it raises is just what in fact that qualification may be?
Who, in short, is a Maori?
I recall seeing in the fairly recent past a photograph of a group of Otago graduates in medicine at a special graduation ceremony for students of Maori descent. (Why they should have been granted this privilege by such a racist criterion is another question to address.) All had names from the British Isles. Several were blondes. Typically Maori features were hard to distinguish in any of them. That outcomes are better for people of more significant Maori descent from treatment by such practitioners rather than those with no Maori ancestry is at best, I suggest, a very dubious conclusion though no doubt there are people who claim it to be true......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2020/09/bruce-moon-racial-privilege-at-otago.html