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It's sad that this 'racism' term has to be trotted out in what could have been a real debate traversing the facts. I can post the words of David Lange and a barrister and Judge here, and yet there is nothing condemnatory or vile posted towards them.
Here's more of the words of David Lange -
"The court of appeal once, absurdly, described it as a partnership between races, but it obviously is not. The signatories are, on one side, a distinctive group of people, and on the other, a government which established itself in New Zealand and whose successors represent all of us, whether we are descendants of the signatories or not. The treaty cannot even resolve the argument among Maori themselves in which one side maintains that that you’re a Maori if you identify as such, and the other claims that it’s your links to traditional forms of association which define you as Maori."
Had I written such words myself, there would be some in this forum who would be quick to brand me as 'racist', as an 'extremist', as an 'unbalanced right winger'. But here we have an esteemed former Labour Prime Minister saying things which are now apparently taboo, even though the year 2000 wasn't only the blink of an eye ago in historical terms. This is probably indicative of modern day 'cancel culture' and the way the Left attempts to shout down & discredit any and all opposition by using hugely loaded buzzwords to demonise others. Of course, it's completely intellectually dishonest and cowardly, but that doesn't stop them.
Misquoting someone repeatedly is not splitting hairs. It displays your lack of integrity for everyone to see. Just because you are behind a handle it doesn't absolve you of what write.
I wonder if many on here would openly say what they write hidden in obscurity.
Me, it wouldn't worry me one bit.
Haere ra
At this point you are just engaging in more ad hominem attacks. Since cries of "racist" did not dissuade me from making cogent arguments you now focus on some exceedingly minor grammatical distinctions around 'many' and 'all' and inflate that into a fundamental lack of integrity. And it's all beside the point that I was trying to make. Anyway, I've come to expect this sort of rubbish from you.
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Kia ora Daytr
You have been fighting the good fight for some time on this thread. It doesn't seem to be going anywhere. So I offer you some perhapses.
Perhaps a significant proportion of New Zealanders did it hard as a result of (....insert reason that suits your politics)
Perhaps it is simply inherent in human nature to envy any other readily identifiable group who don't seem to be doing it as hard or who seem to be getting advantages or capturing resoources that your group isn't.
Perhaps the right has managed to successfully weaponise this tendency in NZ as in many other places over recent years and has (narrowly) gained power as a result.
Perhaps there will be some changes in the rhetoric and "big policy", but little change in what is delivered on the ground.
Perhaps many posters on this site and almost all on this thread are 'true believers' who will never change their beliefs no matter what you say and no matter how things actually play out.
Perhaps you can find more productive, satisfying and fun things to do on an overcast Sunday.
Perhaps I can go fishing, or perhaps I should start staining my deck.
Example of the sort of mess made by Ardern, Hipkins and the Labour government - they added hundreds more civil servants in Kainga Ora (another Maori name now associated with failure like te WTF Ora), billions of dollars to the wasteful spending and still cannot deliver what they promised to do - deliver kiwibuild homes in the numbers and in the price ranges.
Lots of clean up to do for the incoming government.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/301...illion-bailout
"The Government has paid a major developer $37.8 million in a land deal, after it allegedly threatened to openly flout its legal obligations and sell scores of KiwiBuild homes out from underneath anxious buyers. Documents released to Stuff under the Official Information Act show that developers The Neighbourhood Ormiston told Kāinga Ora (KO) they were on the brink of receivership and would need assistance. Cabinet ministers allowed the housing agency to pay up against the advice of the Treasury, after being warned of "reputational damages" the debacle could cause to the KiwiBuild programme."
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