‘Controlling the Dialogue
…The Human Rights Commission has clearly overstepped the mark by embarking on a censoring campaign – the very thing it says it exists to oppose. What’s worse is that it is trying to pretend that their reporting will not stifle media freedom, when clearly it will. They say “Our aim is not to limit media freedom, we want to start an open conversation about balance, fairness, social responsibility and quality in reporting.” That, of course, is simply playing with words to mask the real effect…’
Read on, and it gets worse. Much worse.
‘… The Human Rights Commission holds the copyright to the publication, Tangata Tiriti – Treaty People, which is widely used to educate new migrants about the Treaty of Waitangi. It is based on the premise that Maori did not cede sovereignty to the Queen – it would be hard to find a publication which condemns colonisation and promotes Maori sovereignty more strongly.
Many new migrants, concerned that they might face questions about the Treaty of Waitangi at job interviews, attend Treaty workshops. Because the courses are ‘official’, participants are likely to assume that what they are learning is standard New Zealand history. It turns out that this is not necessarily the case at all.
This week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator, Fiona Mackenzie, a political commentator with a background in education, has been assessing Treaty education materials for migrants and is very concerned about the radical nature of the information they are being taught:
“The interactive workbook Tangata Tiriti – Treaty People purchased from a course promoter is published by the Auckland Workers Educational Association – a social/political organisation. There’s no evidence of a qualified historian either teaching their workshops or having reviewed their materials. Instead, the workbook is very one-sided and there’s a serious omission of many facts. Emotionally manipulative, it’s heavy political propaganda that would do a Communist ‘re-education’ camp proud. Of great concern is the less than subtle encouragement for ‘non-white’ immigrants to join Maori in being anti-Pakeha, anti-democracy and anti-capitalism, while supporting calls for Maori sovereignty.”
She quotes extracts from the workbook, including, “In other countries, the local people were strong enough to kick the colonisers out. Maori should have done the same thing.”
…So the question remains – why is it that new migrants are being taught radical separatist propaganda as if it were fact?’…’
Another question remains – if white Europeans were colonisers, why aren’t muslims and Chinese?
“Our aim is not to limit media freedom”.
Of course its not.
Provided the media only publishes that which the HRC approves of.
And since the inevitable effect of this proposal will be to limit media freedom, then one has to question the intellect – or the honesty -of the clown who said that.
Its good at the end though. We locals should be strong enough to kick the Muslim colonisers out.
Things would have been so much better if we had anchored offshore for another 30 years – the Europeans could have just buried the Maori dead, embraced the few survivors and occupied the country.
I just added something under the “read more”, Brown.
Your “another question” is surely rhetorical? Even a right-wing racist sexist homophobic islamophobe like you can understand only whitey can be a “coloniser”, whereas the duskies are merely “migrants”?
“In other countries, the local people were strong enough to kick the colonisers out. Maori should have done the same thing.”
Which ignores the fact that the “immigrants” had guns, and Maori had sticks. Rather wishing for a different history, which is impossible, how about just getting over it.
Oh no, PC – there’s no profit in getting over it.
Racist publications and media outlets? , promoting hate and division?.
Check out maori tv and mana magazine , both these disgusting racist mediums should be bought to the msm’s attention right now for the public to be properly informed! ,( crickets chirping )