Brilliant piece Ani, especially the "white ferocious females", yes these are dangerous demented females, females I do not associate with and never will.
The process you describe — "The entire game has shifted. What started as a promise of respect has become a demand for submission" — is also true of trans ideology. What began as a courtesy (and nothing more) of referring to transwomen as "she" and "her" has moved to making "misgendering" them a serious infringement of what they consider to be "inclusion" and an unforgivable microaggression.
Yes, exactly, a similar thing happening with that. We are past the point of easy acceptance with those agendas. However, both Maori and the Rainbow cults are just (unwittingly?) willing pawns in the deeper goal - the destruction of Western society, family and democratic values. Neither Maori nor the Rainbow mafia will gain from this in the long run...
It's an interesting article except it fails to address the elephant in the room - increased "Māorification" (much like the push for trans inclusivity) is a direct and defiant response to the very well funded + organised 'Iwi vs Kiwi' campaign that's been forced upon NZ for years. It's all about pointing at a made up villain while the real ones continue the work. It's modern day corporate colonialism - undermining Māori rights for profit in legislation (think mining companies prevented by indigenous land rights), + Ani quite literally financially benefits like many others who work for organisations like Hobson's Pledge which are linked to conservative think tanks 🚩
Certain people feel threatened by an increased use of the language, yet don't blink when the ACT party (whom Ani worked for), take record donations from a very real elite who have a very real advantage in society (low taxation, compound interest, increased access to credit, politicians, opinion writers etc), and push nonsense about some advantage Māori have over them.....claiming it's about 'equal rights'. This is about distraction, undermining indigenous rights so corporations can benefit from less "red tape". The Treaty Principles Bill & Regulatory Standards Bill are perfect examples of really dodgy legislation that puts the interests of overseas companies above kiwis, yet were pitched as something else entirely.
Undermining indigenous rights through misleading rhetoric and legislation (Just like David Seymour did while at the Frontier foundation in Canada) is a habit of organisations aligned with the conservative Atlas Network:
Taking the opportunity to attack ACT and David Seymour through this comments section with a sideswipe at Ani is disingenuous and misplaced and cynical. Ani has made great points and she has spoken from her own experience to help us understand. David Seymour and ACT are for another day. They will be blasted in the next election.
Who do you think Ani has been working for mate? I'd suggest you do a bit of digging Ray. Ani has a history of disingenuously representing issues on behalf of corporations and interest groups, some of who regularly campaign on removing Māori rights. She's also personally promoted the ideas of some objectively terrible human beings. Ani clearly dislikes trans people, has a fair case of xenophobia, and is a simp for neo-liberal douche bags intertwined with the Trump administration. I honestly wish she would use her talents for the good of mankind instead of a small percentage of the worst most dishonest people around, but... shared values I guess...
I think I'd stress local factors rather than the Atlas Network. I recall when Judith Collins was on the skids after the 2020 election (and soon to lose the leadership), she dug up the He Puapua document and started scaremongering about that. Document seems to have been a response to something NZ was required to do for the UN re the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Then we got the full-on hype from Hobson's Pledge, Groundswell, Muriel Newman's lot, and so on through to Seymour and the TPB. This was all very calculated. Not that Maori always responded intelligently: John Tamihere,seems to have got up to suspect practices in the 2023 elections, and TPM (some of whom are his relatives) got into some full-on ranting that scared some people who weren't already worried by the other outfits. So a real mess.
You might think He Puapua was of no consequence, but it provided a very accurate guide to exactly what Ardern et al had in mind for NZ. If I'd found a racing tip sheet or stock picks that accurate, I'd be rich.
It didn't appear until after the 2020 election. As Willie Jackson said in June 2021: "I’m not saying Peters would have been back [in Parliament if he had been given He Puapua], but you’ve got to remember [NZ First] were trying to use anything to get the vote up, and it would’ve been gold for them.”
In 2021 the legacy media instituted a policy of "No debate" about He Puapua and shut down Collins and Seymour when they drew attention to it.
Pretty sure the Collins speech was on Satc1 May 2021 as it's a day I recall well for other, unrelated reasons. She was speaking in Auckland to the local branch of the Nats. Was aware of it because it featured promptly on the news, and I heard about it regularly thereafter. Peters would indeed have run with it, but Seymour now dominates that constituency. Seymour won the politics, so P now cultivating the anti-woke crowd.....
Yes, Peters has lost the contest with Seymour to combat Maorification. The review (supervised by Goldsmith) of Treaty clauses Peters promoted will be a damp squib — and it's likely even if it does recommend some excisions of Treaty clauses, Peters will still have to lodge legislation to carry them out.
It's a reasonable bet he won't get that under way before the election. Meanwhile, Seymour will campaign on a revised version of his Treaty Principles Bill, to be endorsed by a referendum — and that will be one of his bottom lines.
Very fair comment, I completely gave no credit to the homegrown efforts by likes of Don Brash and all the other snide right-wing figures either, both in and around politics, who will only get more racist with age as the mask slips... wonder if they would have been pissed reading that...haha
Fair point about the response from Māori on some fronts, I reckon there's a proportionate level of dickheads and assholes in every demographic to be honest, but then again I'm not a racist or a racial conspiracy goon like some of Ani's other followers...
On a tangent, but I've been reading a bit of history lately and our history is still largely not known to the average kiwi. It's a big factor in people falling prey to racist narratives in Aotearoa I reckon. 'The New Zealand Wars' by Vincent O'Malley should be compulsory for every NZer. It's pretty shocking to read of the scale of robbery and malice there was against Māori. The recent tax cuts by this clearly dishonest and racist government, cost more than all the treaty settlements combined - in one dodgy deal (against the advice of the IRD). Some iwi have been paid out for less than 2% of their land.... valuable land...that has been generating income for a long time.... and there's a lot of it. That colonial or settler wealth hasn't disappeared. It's still sloshing into our political system. That same willingness to put financial interests over the rights of someone else hasn't gone away. The colonial spirit is still alive and well in this country. It's vile to me honestly, but not to some.... some of them are in government... Ani is a valuable ally to them....
Well said Ani. The sad thing is that the government is pretending there isn't an issue, and the MSM are intent on controlling the narrative.
Why don't we know if John Tamihere repaid the "loan" from the Waipareira Trust? Why is Te Pati Maori allowed to continue after failing to provide their financial statements twice? How come the MSM don't follow up on some of the ridiculous conditions concerning Maori when it comes to resource consents?
The obsession with things Maori is holding us all back and discouraging much needed investment. No doubt I will hear from some that I am a racist which simply isn't true.
Thanks Ani for putting into words how I and so many feel but couldn't explain. I am reminded of colleagues not born in NZ and embracing every Maori-related workshop offered thinking this is how they will assimilate into our culture and also the reports back at team meetings on the 'white privilege' workshops they also attended, explaining to the rest of us who hadn't attended that we have unconscious bias. How my blood boiled and I so wish I had walked out of those meetings, I know I wasn't the only one present who felt offended.
I particularly resent the name changes without full public involvement and consent. When a change to the flag was proposed there was a formal democratic process.
Maoridom is like a cloak of two colours - one shields the wearer from having to think or speak for themselves and the other drapes them in a smug self/social superiority. It’s most eagerly donned by insipid, pliant, middle-ish white women who would otherwise go unnoticed in the lunchroom and generally be ignored.
There are women marching in support of terrorists who gangraped women so brutally that their pelvises were broken? Jesus wept, I thought we'd seen the last of this wilfully stupid behaviour once the lockdowns went.
You have captured the mood and feelings of a growing number of New Zealanders.
Regrettably the PM and his Min of Finance believe the only matter exercising people is the economy. That is important but fixable.
The sectarianism created by the culture war, if not rectified, will be destructive to the fabric of our society in away that we cannot imagine and will potentially lead to civil war.
We can’t have two sovereign nations coexisting in one nation. Just take a look at history.
Ah, this is why I subscribe to your Substack Ani. Absolutely nailed it. Again. We must both be racist, evil, colonising bastards, cos I tend to agree with all that you write. (I do care a little more about the passport per se than you though tbh...)
Successive weak leaders have bent over way, way too far to 'be kind to the natives'. As you rightly point out, this naivete has been used to leverage increasingly powerful control over society by Iwi elite. Now anything 'Maori' is venerated without such esteem being at all merited. It has become untouchable, religious liturgy beyond critique. The stark-as naked Emperor indeed. This is why some prat can stand up front of a meeting and say 'the eel swims in the river like the tree grows to the sky' and everyone pretends he has said something meaningful. This is why Nurses walk around Auckland Hospital with Maori Nurse badges (that not surprisingly look like a Maori sovereignty flag...) like modern day Kapos. And why we tolerate complete bullshit like karakia when they are absolutely pointless. (I had no idea the public service was THAT bad! Jeepers!)
Racist Willy always asks, 'why are you so afraid of co-governance'. Well, your article explains it. It is the same as so-called 'Islamaphobia'. A 'phobia' is an 'irrational' fear... Genuine concern for having our functional Western/Christian-based culture taken over by an inferior stone-aged & dysfunctional alternative is not phobic at all. Hang on, was I talking about the threat of Islam or Maori culture? Or both.
Yes, since the words on our passport and bank notes are being cited as giving validity to the argument (by our indolent speaker of the house and others) that we are now officially "Aotearoa" it cannot be dismissed as of no importance. Winston is so right there when he objects to this.
What iwi elite? The rich list is public mate - and some very wealthy interests both domestic and international support political parties, think tanks and shady political organisations that push the very narrative you've just repeated. 'Iwi vs Kiwi' is nothing new in NZ - it's like Jim Crowe in the states - a boogeyman to distract from the real villains in society. Do you really think the victims of colonisation became more powerful than the colonisers who not only benefitted from all that stolen land, but have profitted from it ever since?
Ani, like David Seymour, worked for organisations that undermine indigenous rights around the world for wealthy interests. It makes it easier for mining companies to bypass protections, it also provides a scapegoat to point at while the wealthiest in society continue to pay less tax and lobby for more profiteering from damaging yet lucrative industry.....
‘What Iwi elite’? Oh golly gosh. There is of course quite a difference between people who build successful private businesses and those who excel in racial grift and exploit the failings of their ‘own people’ to enrich themselves. You perhaps need to get out more Chief. ps You forgot to engage with the main point that ‘te Ao’ Maori and the like offers little or no benefit to the country and thus should not be exalted on high. Perhaps you’d care to explain what it does offer in your opinion?
Oh, and referencing a lame publication like the Guardian is not a winning card btw…
Why don't you name some names Boris? Do you even know anyone Māori or anything about the culture? Read up on the history of this country and the land wars? Iwi have been paid out but a fraction of the land value of that which was stolen from them.... and..."exploit the failings of their own people"... excuse me what? Read a history book you absolute donut.
The elephant in the room here are the settlers and colonialists that made an absolute mint over all those decades - guaranteed a number of families still do from stolen land. They didn't become the elite who are actively lobbying to enrich themselves at the cost of others though...right? They surely wouldn't donate to organisations like the very one Ani works for that recently pushed even more racist narratives via billboard ....right?
Land wars? Musket wars? Inter-tribal hatred and eating a Reverend's eyeballs. How is all that relevant today?
I never made a cent out of colonising NZ and no person of fractional Maori ancestry alive today lost a single cent either. Get over it. The reality though, is all those fractional Maori descendants are wayyyyyy better off today than had this land not been colonised. Tribal savagery, cannibalism, zero technology, no medicine, Utu as a way of life, and constant warfare, by the stroke of a pen turned into the greatest quality of life ever known to man. How about a bit of gratitude you opprobrious speller?
p.s. yep, been assaulted, robbed (at gunpoint), stolen from and abused by plenty of Maori (in fact predominantly Maori), so I am well versed in their culture. Not to say they are all bad of course, but the radical & perpetually angry ones need to pull their head out of their cultural arse and get with the modern world. Those that do, aka Kiwis who are part Maori, are just as nice and decent as the rest of the country. You need to catch up Chief, there is no place called "Maori' so using it as a primary identity is stupid. Maori as a separate people ceased to exist in 1840.
Brilliant Ani - the most comprehensive analysis that I have read of the stealthy infiltration of minority ethnic culture and Stone Age superstition in NEW ZEALAND in recent years 👏👏
You should have a weekly column in the Herald, Post, Press and ODT 👏👏👍
Ani has a daily column on X. And of course her column here on Substack. The legacy media really are on the point of folding, but your point is valid Brian — is it 'real' unless it's in actual print? Or on the TV News at 6? Yes, and increasingly yes.
Thank goodness someone has been brave enough to say this - great article Ani. The only thing you omitted to mention was the torrent of ageist abuse that more often than not accompanies the vitriol targeted at people who stand up to the bullying by the promoters of the replacement of English as a language in Aotea….err, New Zealand.
At nearly 80 I'm acutely aware of the shifts, and even knowing the whakapapa of the Maori side of my family I can't buy into the wholesale adoption of the cultural imposition that is happening. You final paragraph says it all, and I am frightened for my country when I contrast movement over the last ten years or so with the pre-conditions for civil war that David Betz so eloquently describes. I think we're getter closer and closer to the point where a spark could ignite real conflict. Well worth watching when you're feeling strong enough!
If you think passports are a problem. Take a look at the job ads on Seek which are increasingly demanding "A commitment to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi" or knowledge of Te Reo or Maori cultural practices. Basically affirmative action by stealth. Some of these jobs are government jobs which due to their requirements are quietly excluding non-Maori.
I’ve heard that it is a problematic feature of public service recruitment ads, not those of private companies so much (specific racial or cultural demands would probably risk legal action for them).
As it stands, it appears the selective bias of public services is not even subtle now.
Brilliant piece Ani, especially the "white ferocious females", yes these are dangerous demented females, females I do not associate with and never will.
Pot, meet kettle 👀
Excellent analysis, Ani. Thanks.
The process you describe — "The entire game has shifted. What started as a promise of respect has become a demand for submission" — is also true of trans ideology. What began as a courtesy (and nothing more) of referring to transwomen as "she" and "her" has moved to making "misgendering" them a serious infringement of what they consider to be "inclusion" and an unforgivable microaggression.
One squillion per cent agree and exactly what I thought too
Yes, exactly, a similar thing happening with that. We are past the point of easy acceptance with those agendas. However, both Maori and the Rainbow cults are just (unwittingly?) willing pawns in the deeper goal - the destruction of Western society, family and democratic values. Neither Maori nor the Rainbow mafia will gain from this in the long run...
It's an interesting article except it fails to address the elephant in the room - increased "Māorification" (much like the push for trans inclusivity) is a direct and defiant response to the very well funded + organised 'Iwi vs Kiwi' campaign that's been forced upon NZ for years. It's all about pointing at a made up villain while the real ones continue the work. It's modern day corporate colonialism - undermining Māori rights for profit in legislation (think mining companies prevented by indigenous land rights), + Ani quite literally financially benefits like many others who work for organisations like Hobson's Pledge which are linked to conservative think tanks 🚩
Certain people feel threatened by an increased use of the language, yet don't blink when the ACT party (whom Ani worked for), take record donations from a very real elite who have a very real advantage in society (low taxation, compound interest, increased access to credit, politicians, opinion writers etc), and push nonsense about some advantage Māori have over them.....claiming it's about 'equal rights'. This is about distraction, undermining indigenous rights so corporations can benefit from less "red tape". The Treaty Principles Bill & Regulatory Standards Bill are perfect examples of really dodgy legislation that puts the interests of overseas companies above kiwis, yet were pitched as something else entirely.
Undermining indigenous rights through misleading rhetoric and legislation (Just like David Seymour did while at the Frontier foundation in Canada) is a habit of organisations aligned with the conservative Atlas Network:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/06/rishi-sunak-javier-milei-donald-trump-atlas-network
Taking the opportunity to attack ACT and David Seymour through this comments section with a sideswipe at Ani is disingenuous and misplaced and cynical. Ani has made great points and she has spoken from her own experience to help us understand. David Seymour and ACT are for another day. They will be blasted in the next election.
Who do you think Ani has been working for mate? I'd suggest you do a bit of digging Ray. Ani has a history of disingenuously representing issues on behalf of corporations and interest groups, some of who regularly campaign on removing Māori rights. She's also personally promoted the ideas of some objectively terrible human beings. Ani clearly dislikes trans people, has a fair case of xenophobia, and is a simp for neo-liberal douche bags intertwined with the Trump administration. I honestly wish she would use her talents for the good of mankind instead of a small percentage of the worst most dishonest people around, but... shared values I guess...
Why do you think that Ani, as a gay person, would dislike trans people?
I think I'd stress local factors rather than the Atlas Network. I recall when Judith Collins was on the skids after the 2020 election (and soon to lose the leadership), she dug up the He Puapua document and started scaremongering about that. Document seems to have been a response to something NZ was required to do for the UN re the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Then we got the full-on hype from Hobson's Pledge, Groundswell, Muriel Newman's lot, and so on through to Seymour and the TPB. This was all very calculated. Not that Maori always responded intelligently: John Tamihere,seems to have got up to suspect practices in the 2023 elections, and TPM (some of whom are his relatives) got into some full-on ranting that scared some people who weren't already worried by the other outfits. So a real mess.
You might think He Puapua was of no consequence, but it provided a very accurate guide to exactly what Ardern et al had in mind for NZ. If I'd found a racing tip sheet or stock picks that accurate, I'd be rich.
It didn't appear until after the 2020 election. As Willie Jackson said in June 2021: "I’m not saying Peters would have been back [in Parliament if he had been given He Puapua], but you’ve got to remember [NZ First] were trying to use anything to get the vote up, and it would’ve been gold for them.”
In 2021 the legacy media instituted a policy of "No debate" about He Puapua and shut down Collins and Seymour when they drew attention to it.
It is one of the media's most shameful episodes.
Pretty sure the Collins speech was on Satc1 May 2021 as it's a day I recall well for other, unrelated reasons. She was speaking in Auckland to the local branch of the Nats. Was aware of it because it featured promptly on the news, and I heard about it regularly thereafter. Peters would indeed have run with it, but Seymour now dominates that constituency. Seymour won the politics, so P now cultivating the anti-woke crowd.....
Yes, Peters has lost the contest with Seymour to combat Maorification. The review (supervised by Goldsmith) of Treaty clauses Peters promoted will be a damp squib — and it's likely even if it does recommend some excisions of Treaty clauses, Peters will still have to lodge legislation to carry them out.
It's a reasonable bet he won't get that under way before the election. Meanwhile, Seymour will campaign on a revised version of his Treaty Principles Bill, to be endorsed by a referendum — and that will be one of his bottom lines.
Sorry, we are required to do nothing in response to UNDRIP
It is a legally non binding,feel good document in NZ.
He Pua Pua however is real and is being implemented
Expecting 80% of the population to be happy to be controlled by 20% in a democracy was always going to fail once the realised what was going on.
Very fair comment, I completely gave no credit to the homegrown efforts by likes of Don Brash and all the other snide right-wing figures either, both in and around politics, who will only get more racist with age as the mask slips... wonder if they would have been pissed reading that...haha
Fair point about the response from Māori on some fronts, I reckon there's a proportionate level of dickheads and assholes in every demographic to be honest, but then again I'm not a racist or a racial conspiracy goon like some of Ani's other followers...
On a tangent, but I've been reading a bit of history lately and our history is still largely not known to the average kiwi. It's a big factor in people falling prey to racist narratives in Aotearoa I reckon. 'The New Zealand Wars' by Vincent O'Malley should be compulsory for every NZer. It's pretty shocking to read of the scale of robbery and malice there was against Māori. The recent tax cuts by this clearly dishonest and racist government, cost more than all the treaty settlements combined - in one dodgy deal (against the advice of the IRD). Some iwi have been paid out for less than 2% of their land.... valuable land...that has been generating income for a long time.... and there's a lot of it. That colonial or settler wealth hasn't disappeared. It's still sloshing into our political system. That same willingness to put financial interests over the rights of someone else hasn't gone away. The colonial spirit is still alive and well in this country. It's vile to me honestly, but not to some.... some of them are in government... Ani is a valuable ally to them....
Did you read about the Musket Wars as well?
If we want equity why not make the tribal boundaries those that existed in 1810? The Moriori would appreciate it
If you say they changed by right of conquest that also applies to the New Zealand Wars
One of the best, if not the best essays on this growing problem in Western Culture. Keep up the good work!
Well said Ani. The sad thing is that the government is pretending there isn't an issue, and the MSM are intent on controlling the narrative.
Why don't we know if John Tamihere repaid the "loan" from the Waipareira Trust? Why is Te Pati Maori allowed to continue after failing to provide their financial statements twice? How come the MSM don't follow up on some of the ridiculous conditions concerning Maori when it comes to resource consents?
The obsession with things Maori is holding us all back and discouraging much needed investment. No doubt I will hear from some that I am a racist which simply isn't true.
Thanks Ani for putting into words how I and so many feel but couldn't explain. I am reminded of colleagues not born in NZ and embracing every Maori-related workshop offered thinking this is how they will assimilate into our culture and also the reports back at team meetings on the 'white privilege' workshops they also attended, explaining to the rest of us who hadn't attended that we have unconscious bias. How my blood boiled and I so wish I had walked out of those meetings, I know I wasn't the only one present who felt offended.
I particularly resent the name changes without full public involvement and consent. When a change to the flag was proposed there was a formal democratic process.
This is brilliant Ani, and must be widely shared. You have given voice to the deep unease and growing concern that so may feel.
Maoridom is like a cloak of two colours - one shields the wearer from having to think or speak for themselves and the other drapes them in a smug self/social superiority. It’s most eagerly donned by insipid, pliant, middle-ish white women who would otherwise go unnoticed in the lunchroom and generally be ignored.
Stunning piece - worth paying for
You will also find those same women marching in the pro-Palestine protests that are now a regular event in Auckland.
There are women marching in support of terrorists who gangraped women so brutally that their pelvises were broken? Jesus wept, I thought we'd seen the last of this wilfully stupid behaviour once the lockdowns went.
Their willful ignorance is shameful. Unfortunately their numbers are growing in all Western countries.
OMG Ani, you've don it again..... yes, yes & yes
An incredibly important piece Ani.
You have captured the mood and feelings of a growing number of New Zealanders.
Regrettably the PM and his Min of Finance believe the only matter exercising people is the economy. That is important but fixable.
The sectarianism created by the culture war, if not rectified, will be destructive to the fabric of our society in away that we cannot imagine and will potentially lead to civil war.
We can’t have two sovereign nations coexisting in one nation. Just take a look at history.
Ah, this is why I subscribe to your Substack Ani. Absolutely nailed it. Again. We must both be racist, evil, colonising bastards, cos I tend to agree with all that you write. (I do care a little more about the passport per se than you though tbh...)
Successive weak leaders have bent over way, way too far to 'be kind to the natives'. As you rightly point out, this naivete has been used to leverage increasingly powerful control over society by Iwi elite. Now anything 'Maori' is venerated without such esteem being at all merited. It has become untouchable, religious liturgy beyond critique. The stark-as naked Emperor indeed. This is why some prat can stand up front of a meeting and say 'the eel swims in the river like the tree grows to the sky' and everyone pretends he has said something meaningful. This is why Nurses walk around Auckland Hospital with Maori Nurse badges (that not surprisingly look like a Maori sovereignty flag...) like modern day Kapos. And why we tolerate complete bullshit like karakia when they are absolutely pointless. (I had no idea the public service was THAT bad! Jeepers!)
Racist Willy always asks, 'why are you so afraid of co-governance'. Well, your article explains it. It is the same as so-called 'Islamaphobia'. A 'phobia' is an 'irrational' fear... Genuine concern for having our functional Western/Christian-based culture taken over by an inferior stone-aged & dysfunctional alternative is not phobic at all. Hang on, was I talking about the threat of Islam or Maori culture? Or both.
Yes, since the words on our passport and bank notes are being cited as giving validity to the argument (by our indolent speaker of the house and others) that we are now officially "Aotearoa" it cannot be dismissed as of no importance. Winston is so right there when he objects to this.
We are not officially Aotearoa. The Speaker only said Aotearoa could be used IN THE HOUSE.
What iwi elite? The rich list is public mate - and some very wealthy interests both domestic and international support political parties, think tanks and shady political organisations that push the very narrative you've just repeated. 'Iwi vs Kiwi' is nothing new in NZ - it's like Jim Crowe in the states - a boogeyman to distract from the real villains in society. Do you really think the victims of colonisation became more powerful than the colonisers who not only benefitted from all that stolen land, but have profitted from it ever since?
Ani, like David Seymour, worked for organisations that undermine indigenous rights around the world for wealthy interests. It makes it easier for mining companies to bypass protections, it also provides a scapegoat to point at while the wealthiest in society continue to pay less tax and lobby for more profiteering from damaging yet lucrative industry.....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/06/rishi-sunak-javier-milei-donald-trump-atlas-network
‘What Iwi elite’? Oh golly gosh. There is of course quite a difference between people who build successful private businesses and those who excel in racial grift and exploit the failings of their ‘own people’ to enrich themselves. You perhaps need to get out more Chief. ps You forgot to engage with the main point that ‘te Ao’ Maori and the like offers little or no benefit to the country and thus should not be exalted on high. Perhaps you’d care to explain what it does offer in your opinion?
Oh, and referencing a lame publication like the Guardian is not a winning card btw…
Why don't you name some names Boris? Do you even know anyone Māori or anything about the culture? Read up on the history of this country and the land wars? Iwi have been paid out but a fraction of the land value of that which was stolen from them.... and..."exploit the failings of their own people"... excuse me what? Read a history book you absolute donut.
The elephant in the room here are the settlers and colonialists that made an absolute mint over all those decades - guaranteed a number of families still do from stolen land. They didn't become the elite who are actively lobbying to enrich themselves at the cost of others though...right? They surely wouldn't donate to organisations like the very one Ani works for that recently pushed even more racist narratives via billboard ....right?
You come across like an arrogant racist imbacile.
Donut? Ouch...
Land wars? Musket wars? Inter-tribal hatred and eating a Reverend's eyeballs. How is all that relevant today?
I never made a cent out of colonising NZ and no person of fractional Maori ancestry alive today lost a single cent either. Get over it. The reality though, is all those fractional Maori descendants are wayyyyyy better off today than had this land not been colonised. Tribal savagery, cannibalism, zero technology, no medicine, Utu as a way of life, and constant warfare, by the stroke of a pen turned into the greatest quality of life ever known to man. How about a bit of gratitude you opprobrious speller?
p.s. yep, been assaulted, robbed (at gunpoint), stolen from and abused by plenty of Maori (in fact predominantly Maori), so I am well versed in their culture. Not to say they are all bad of course, but the radical & perpetually angry ones need to pull their head out of their cultural arse and get with the modern world. Those that do, aka Kiwis who are part Maori, are just as nice and decent as the rest of the country. You need to catch up Chief, there is no place called "Maori' so using it as a primary identity is stupid. Maori as a separate people ceased to exist in 1840.
Brilliant Ani - the most comprehensive analysis that I have read of the stealthy infiltration of minority ethnic culture and Stone Age superstition in NEW ZEALAND in recent years 👏👏
You should have a weekly column in the Herald, Post, Press and ODT 👏👏👍
Ani has a daily column on X. And of course her column here on Substack. The legacy media really are on the point of folding, but your point is valid Brian — is it 'real' unless it's in actual print? Or on the TV News at 6? Yes, and increasingly yes.
Thank goodness someone has been brave enough to say this - great article Ani. The only thing you omitted to mention was the torrent of ageist abuse that more often than not accompanies the vitriol targeted at people who stand up to the bullying by the promoters of the replacement of English as a language in Aotea….err, New Zealand.
At nearly 80 I'm acutely aware of the shifts, and even knowing the whakapapa of the Maori side of my family I can't buy into the wholesale adoption of the cultural imposition that is happening. You final paragraph says it all, and I am frightened for my country when I contrast movement over the last ten years or so with the pre-conditions for civil war that David Betz so eloquently describes. I think we're getter closer and closer to the point where a spark could ignite real conflict. Well worth watching when you're feeling strong enough!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5RsmqvVCysAZfx3wWCwG7n?si=c7n6zDOaT0qz22vjK-IgSA
If you think passports are a problem. Take a look at the job ads on Seek which are increasingly demanding "A commitment to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi" or knowledge of Te Reo or Maori cultural practices. Basically affirmative action by stealth. Some of these jobs are government jobs which due to their requirements are quietly excluding non-Maori.
I’ve heard that it is a problematic feature of public service recruitment ads, not those of private companies so much (specific racial or cultural demands would probably risk legal action for them).
As it stands, it appears the selective bias of public services is not even subtle now.
THAT is REALLY scary LDA!*! Something I completely missed!
You hit the nail on the head better than anyone.