Recently I wrote an article on the subject of reverse racism in New Zealand. A further perusal of A Weekend Newspaper only reinforced my view.
I reached page 10 and was told by one of the greatest purveyors of left-wing drivel, Simon Wilson, that the clamour for change is rising and Ihumatao is Jacinda Ardern’s historic moment. Will she take it? On page 16 Lizzie Marvelly informs me Ihumatao is a complex case of Maori oppression.
Dealing with Simon, though it pains me to do so, he also talks about Oranga Tamariki and how both conflicts involve Maori against Pakeha and Maori against Maori. They have overtones of tradition v modernity and youth v age. Also of women v men, moderates v radicals. Simon points out in both disputes Maori on both sides have said enough to colonial injustice. It only took to paragraph three for that constant refrain to raise its ugly head.
Let’s, for a moment, look at those differences he points out. He has just painted a picture of everything that’s gone wrong with the politics of the Left today. Globally. Pelosi v The Squad. They are in a total and utter shambles.
Simon asks did Ardern notice, with Ihumatao as with climate change, how the world of protest has filled up with young people. As that’s the age group she spends most of her time with the answer is probably yes. We certainly have noticed Simon and are none too impressed. We have kids wandering out of school, no doubt on the basis of scaremongering by some idiot leftie teacher who’s told them that the world is about to end. If you want to spend the rest of your life living in fear Simon, go ahead but keep the nonsense to yourself. Next minute the kids will be having lessons on how to build an ark.
Simon asks if anyone told Ardern about the 29-year-old Pania Newton and says what a courageous, determined and remarkably gifted leader she is. Isn’t it enough to make you want to curl up into a ball and weep! Donald Trump is putting up with similar, the Cortez woman for one.
Simon says the days of deliberately taking what we can from Maori, just because we can, and hiding behind self-serving laws to defend the action, are over. Excuse my French but where the bloody hell has he been for the last forty or fifty years as we the taxpayers have, quite rightly, shelled out billions in compensation for land confiscations. It is disturbing to say the least that, having paid an over-inflated price for ‘A Newspaper’, (no doubt due to falling sales), we are faced with having to read this sort of claptrap.
Simon bemoans the fact that the law has enabled the creation of private wealth for Fletchers at the expense of the cultural and historical wealth of the people of the land and of the citizens of the city. So what is Fletcher’s supposed to do on land they legally own? Build affordable homes for free? Simon, of course, fails to mention that Fletchers has agreed to return some of the land. Typical Left-wing reporting. Don’t let the facts get in the way of the story.
Simon would do well to talk to iwi advocate Pita Turei who says that the land being used for urban development is not ancient burial grounds as SOUL would suggest but was in fact wheat fields. Pita says the big myth here is that the stone fields are under threat, they are not.
So, in essence, this week I have spent money buying ‘A Newspaper’ to read two articles, one by a mature gentleman and another by a young lady, both using a myth to further their personal crusades. Having skewered Simon, Lizzie’s next for a roasting.
As for Jacinda’s historic moment, that will be when she leaves office and that moment can’t come soon enough!
PS. Anyone game to bet that Simon’s next article will be on the lack of affordable housing for Maori?
