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# The Casual Racism of a Maori MP Goes Unquestioned by a Cowed Media
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-casual-racism-of-a-maori-mp-goes-unquestioned-by-a-cowed-media/
- Published: 2021-03-04T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-17T16:59:17.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

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The above tweet by scribble-faced Maori MP **Rawiri Waititi** is an example of the casual racism exhibited by some Maori.

Here is an MP, in a race-based seat, using his position to say that white people are an archaic species.

That’s very similar to the furore over **John Banks** claiming Maori were a stone-age people. The difference is that John Banks was right because his observation is based on simple historic facts that Maori were a neolithic people.

Rawiri Waititi is just an old fashioned racist, but that gets ignored because he’s brown.

The media would be hounding a National or Act MP out of their job if they described Maori as an **archaic species** that were becoming **extinct.** Yet they are silent as they attempt to Maorify everything including the name of this country.

The tweet has now been deleted and Waititi has blamed it all on a staffer. Would that staffer be **John Tamihere**, his father-in-law, I wonder?

It seems you can be astonishingly racist just so long as you are a person of colour.

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