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What a coincidence that just as the new ‘Pakeha bad Maori good’ compulsory NZ History curriculum is being launched a Karen like Laura Quin raises her anti-historical accuracy head. She has complained about information maps on board the Interislander Ferry being racist and ” yuk.” Cannibalism is yuk but it is not racist to say that it happened.

She told Stuff the map mentioned ”wholesale slaughter and cannibal feasting”

[…] One sentence says: “All 10 were ambushed, killed and eaten by local Maori [sic]”, with no mention of the impact Captain Cook, his men, and colonisation had on the nation.

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