History
The History of Your A-B-C.
Alphabet: it’s one of the first things we teach our children. Even before we teach them that they’re racist (if they’re white) or a victim (if they’re not), and that what they pack in their undies has nothing to do with their “gender”. “A-B-C-D, E-F-G…”, you’
The BFD Comment of the Week
As part of our drive to keep our comment section the best in New Zealand we showcase each week an example of a top-notch comment that adds value to The BFD. Today’s comment was written by Purple Flower. Thank you Purple Flower for taking the time to craft such
Submission on the Proposed School History Curriculum
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 The proposed History curriculum is so bad that it is hard to know where to start. Indeed, in the limited time I have to write a submission, I
Ask for an Honest History Curriculum
Hobson’s Pledge Trust We agree that the draft history curriculum divides history into villains and victims, contains significant gaps, and pushes a narrow set of highly political stories from our past, as a new petition on the ACT Party’s website states. The draft curriculum’s “three big ideas”
The Slavery Golriz Cares Not to Mention
New Zealand Greens’ list MP Golriz Ghahraman sure does like to talk up the evils of slavery and colonialism. She wants statues of New Zealand’s “colonial past” removed. She also makes a big noise about supporting the “Black Lives Matter” movement, whose central platform is “reparations” for slavery. But
Winston Churchill: Great as a Statesman, Disastrous as a Father
Francis Phillips mercatornet.com Churchill & Son By Josh Ireland. 2021. 464 pages When you read of domestic conflicts on a large and violent scale, you go back to the Greeks: Agamemnon’s unhappy family and the fated House of Atreus. The Churchills inhabited a similar world, full of sound,
The BFD Food Column: Spicy Red Lentil and Vegetable Soup
Trendy Health Soups Cooking has become incredibly confusing for us self-anointed experts. I can’t begin to imagine how you all cope with the avalanche of alternative and health narrative-driven confusion recipes and post-modern industrial ingredients. Once tofu was the go-to meat, fish, vegan protein alternative. Remember the days when
The Controversial History of Colourizing Black-And-White Photos
Roshaya Rodness University of Toronto Roshaya Rodness received their PhD from McMaster University in 2018 in the Department of English & Cultural Studies. Their research looks specifically to the history of queer film and visual culture to explore radical and promissory forms of social being that are unexpectedly revealed by
New Nazi Documentary ‘Final Account’ Is a Powerful & Prescient Warning for Our Identity Politics Obsessed Age
Michael McCaffrey rt.com Michael McCaffrey is a writer and cultural critic who lives in Los Angeles. He is also the host of the popular cinema podcast Looking California and Feeling Minnesota. Luke Holland’s film, which chronicles the complicity of ordinary Germans in the crimes of the Third Reich,
If You Cheer for Hamas, You Should Understand It Wants Israel Wiped from the Map
Paul Rubenstein aijac.org.au Paul Rubenstein is NSW chairman of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council. Sydney Morning Herald and The Age – 27 May 2021 “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” So goes the catch-cry chanted by anti-Israel demonstrators around the globe over the
The New Zealand Chinese Experience Is Unique and Important — the New History Curriculum Can’t Ignore It
Manying Ip University of Auckland Manying Ip is Emeritus Professor of Asian studies at the University of Auckland. Born in 1945 in Guizhou (an interior province of Mainland China, where her parents had taken refuge after the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong), she completed her tertiary education in Hong Kong
Jews, Israel, and Indigeneity
IINZ israelinstitute.nz Tena koutou, Tena koutou, Tena koutou katoa and shalom. There’s a sense of deja vu as we gather here today. Many of us did this in 2014 and many of the messages were exactly the same. Today I’m just going to cover another point as
The New Zealand Histories Curriculum – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Susan Short Secretary democracyaction.org.nz This brief article is to remind you that the opportunity to have a say on the Aotearoa New Zealand’s Histories in the New Zealand Curriculum runs out in six days’ time. Consultation closes on Monday 31 May. For those who have already made
The Big Lie
In illuminating the lie at the core of our proposed new school ‘history’ curriculum: “It is clear that Maori did not cede their mana to the Crown, and that they signed in the belief that it would give them power to govern in partnership with the Governor” We saw that