is in my opinion a liar and a racist. The unlovely exterior conceals an equally unlovely interior.
‘…”Colonisation is what we call a historical trauma event. Research tells us that traumatic events like that impose themselves on an entire people and have major implications for the following generations who are trying to adapt to the trauma that their parents, their grandparents, and their great grandparents experienced,” Pihama said….’ Link
I’d be very interested to hear her excuse for maori-on-maori depredations before the white man arrived. For the genocide of the Moriori people by maori. For the enslavement of defeated maori, the cannibalism, the brutality towards women and children.
Colonialism? Gimme a break. Colonialism was the best thing that ever happened to maori, giving them the opportunity to join the civilized world.
Racist, parasitic opportunists such as Pihama do more damage to maori right now than any other single factor, by encouraging them to assume the victim role when in fact they’re perfectly capable of making their way in the world without handouts and grovelling from whitey.
Maori brutality towards children will only – can only – end when maori take responsibility for their own behaviour, and stop listening to parasites in academia. Plenty of them are doing just that right now, and they’re doing fine.
Thank you for the space, Darin. Some things just get to be too infuriating to pass by. I’ll make it a “read more” if you’d prefer.
The words Maori academic are a nuclear powered oxymoron.
“Thank you for the space”
Thank you.
Unlovely exterior is an understatement
@KG:
Hear! Hear! THE MAN!
Familiar story – it was paradise before you white bastards showed up.
What’s the Kiwi equivalent of Invasion Day?
The colonisation excuse will most likely be employed for a further 1000 years. This creature’s face reveals all of the sophistication of the stone-age.
That’ s not a Maori…since when did Maori have long (blond?) hair. That’s a Cultural Appropriationist….in other words an academic marxist….boo hiss, stick your tongue out at her, it’ll be the closest she ever get to real Maori culture
Give it a real dose and punch her face in ‘for looking at you’
Is that an aiming mark on the middle of its forehead?
Obviously, Seneca III. What other purpose could it possibly have?
Great to see you after all this time, Richard!
Stop by all the time KG, just nothing to say…at least nothing that would not be laced with a spluttering rage at the sheer stupidity of society in the face of real dangers.
Not a religious man, but it seems to me, that the seven deadly sins of the bible have humanity gripped tight in a deadly spiral to the bottom…envy, avarice, greed, covetousness, seem to be en vogue in the modern world.
Too much Anger is not always good place to start a coherent conversation from as it does tend to cloud the mind with many dark thoughts. Yes anger is a necessary emotion as it is a spur to action, but must be held in check lest it lead to thoughts of going full on Vlad Teppes on one’s ideological enemies
I feel very much the same nowadays, Richard.
If things do break, there’ll be a lot of very, very angry men and women ready for the fray.
I am an Australian of English descent. If there had been no colonialism, I would never have existed, nor would the fine, first world nation that I call home. Most of the cretins who bleat and bray about the nonsese this woman is spruiking are in the same boat, but they just don’t get it.
Oh, they do get it. Make no mistake. They are cynically using it to create guilt amongst us, the European/Anglo-Saxon/whatever colonisers to gain an advantage/position/money.
Precisely.
Social marxism and associated academics are what we in the real world call a historical trauma event. But its over. Its history . Conservatism economic and social is returning as surely as the reality of natural life is.
The social marxism construct was and is fundamentally antagonistic to a value based society. It is a form of Statism Statizm
Its finished . I know it will be traumatic for them, and I don’t care.
So she longs for a culture that (besides all the stuff KG cited) had no written language, didn’t have any concept of higher mathematics and hadn’t even invented the pulley. Daft bitch!
Perhaps Kiwis of European descent should present the grievance-mongers with a bill for the gift of civilization.
The pulley? not even the bloody wheel
Phil Stephenson said
“I am an Australian of English descent. If there had been no colonialism, I would never have existed, nor would the fine, first world nation that I call home. Most of the cretins who bleat and bray about the nonsese this woman is spruiking are in the same boat, but they just don’t get it.”
I second the motion!
I’m an American of mostly British ancestry – and without British colonialism and protection during the early colonial period – the fierce North American Indian tribes would have thrown my ancestors back into the cold Atlantic, as they did the Viking colonists around 1000 A.D.
Yes, I’m an a stalwart Republican – but I give the British Empire two and half big cheers – and I don’t believe my opinion is a minority in this country – (Even from Americans with not one drop of British blood – the use of the English language and the required courses in British history and literature in school has made them “Honorary British” –
The British monarchy and people of Britain – and the rest of Anglosphere – are cousins with whom we have enjoyed a special relationship for well over 100 years.
Those who long for the pre-colonial period in the former British Empire and speak of the “superiority” of those barbarians who were the original peoples of North America, Australia and New Zealand – should wander off to some jungle and attempt to live with the savages…but I think they’d end up in the cooking pot for lunch.
Like the man said, barbarian life was/is “poor, nasty, brutish, and short’ I live now in the Western USA and I’ve met many American Indians and the vast majority are proud to be Americans – and if you visit their homes – the walls are often covered with pictures of fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in the U.S. Army blue dress uniform – the same color uniform wore by the bluecoat soldiers who fought their ancestors on the battlefields of a 300 year plus series of brutal wars in North America.
I think the American Indians – like the majority of many other native tribes faced by the British colonists decided – “Well, we can’t beat’em – may as well join’em.”
Back fifty years ago Kenneth Clarke made an excellent series for the BBC called Civilisation. Quote:
“Some people tell me they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they’ve given it a long enough trial.”
That was a GREAT series.
It couldn’t be made today, of course KG.
There was a rumour that the Beeb was planning a contemporary version. But in this era of White Hate, how could they hold anything up for praise that was the work of fair-skinned Christian European males?
One for the too-hard basket.
Yes indeed, Gregory
“a historical trauma event” ah, that’s an excuse for Maori failure that will work in perpetuity. And the tragedy with it is that Maori will fail in perpetuity for as long for as they believe that Marxist BS.
Yep. It’s a pity not enough of them see that.