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Te Henare

2 years

Should karakia (prayers, incantations) be used in shared public spaces like schools, government orgs., council meetings, etc? There’s a bit to unpack…

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@TeHenare

1 year

In most cultures the elderly female, kuia, nan, nonna, grandma, etc., is the most revered and respected position in the family. It’s an utter disgrace that the brutal assault of a 70yo kuia is being unanimously dismissed/ignored by media, politicians, police, activists, etc!

Te Henare

@TeHenare

1 year

@radionz I’ve seen footage of not 1, but 2 kuia being brutally assaulted by trans rights activists. It’s easily the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in a long time. The only thing more disturbing perhaps is the wilful denial of these brutal assaults by media, politicians, activists.

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My daughter moves to Dunedin today, starting a BSc (Psych, Neuroscience) at Otago University. A significant milestone, especially from a whānau with major generational trauma & dysfunction with fewer than 5% who attended uni from school. Sad to lose my baby, but very proud!🥹

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@TeHenare

1 year

Forcing Mātauranga Māori into science class continues. Again, as someone who is immersed in MM and who teaches it for a living, it’s rich and interesting and even includes some science - but MM is NOT comparable to science as a method or a body of knowledge. This must stop.

Richard Dawkins

@RichardDawkins

1 year

Yet more fatuous drivel from NZ. We’re all related, not because descended from Earth Mother & Sky Father but because descended from LUCA & share same DNA code. And far from living in harmony with nature, Maori drove all 9 species of Moa tragically extinct.

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@TeHenare

1 year

That Marama’s comments about white cis men are unanimously ignored or endorsed by the Greens, but Kerekere’s ‘cry baby’ comment warrants a full investigation, is yet another example of how far the cancer of woke ideology has spread through the @NZGreens .

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@TeHenare

1 year

@radionz I’ve seen footage of not 1, but 2 kuia being brutally assaulted by trans rights activists. It’s easily the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in a long time. The only thing more disturbing perhaps is the wilful denial of these brutal assaults by media, politicians, activists.

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@TeHenare

9 months

Hey Grant, as a parent/caregiver of 7 young Māori people, I can tell you that - like all young people - they want love, security, safety, and a home free of trauma and abuse. They couldn’t give two f*cks if it’s called NZTA, Waka Kotahi, or Car Go Brrm Brrm.

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@robtreacher

9 months

I feel so bloody strongly about this!! Stuff this ridiculous new bunch of muppets calling themselves a government. What a joke they are

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@TeHenare

2 years

There may be good intentions here but imo this not only achieves absolutely nothing, it infantilises Māori, suggesting we need weather explained to us like we’re toddlers, and reinforces harmful stereotypes that Māori are “spiritual people”, and not scientific or rational.

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@TeHenare

1 year

For Matariki to be something the whole country embraces long term it has to have universal appeal. A hyper-sacred, quasi-religious day of karakia and offerings to deities Māori stopped believing in over 100 years ago, only has appeal to some Māori academics and Pākeha hippies.

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@TeHenare

2 years

Mātauranga Māori is rich & interesting & I’ve been immersed in it most of my life. However it’s NOT comparable to science as a methodology or body of knowledge - it’s probably more akin to religion. People pushing this ideological nonsense are denigrating both MM and science.

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@TeHenare

1 year

@peterboghossian I teach Mātauranga Maori for a living and I grew up immersed in it. I can say with high confidence that while MM is interesting and rich and even includes some science, it is NOT comparable to science as a tool or a body of knowledge. What’s going on here in NZ is insane.

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@TeHenare

7 months

Anyone who claims they’d prefer to live under tikanga Māori as opposed to the rule of law, probably doesn’t know tikanga Māori very well.

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@TeHenare

9 months

Just so it’s clear: Māori names for govt. organisations, strategies, etc., do little to nothing for the revitalisation of Te Reo Māori. The research is clear on this. What is infinitely more important than an organisation’s name, is the mahi it does to improve outcomes!

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@TeHenare

2 years

“No Māori Allowed” A must-watch documentary about the racial segregation policies in Pukekohe circa 1950s. Predictable backlash from those who don’t want to know the ugly parts of their/our history. *These before/after comments from one viewer offer some hope

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@TeHenare

1 year

For clarity: I’m pro HUMAN rights. This includes LGBTQ+ rights, women’s rights, indigenous rights, disability rights, etc. Sometimes these rights clash. The best way to deal with this clash is rational, robust dialogue. The absolute worst way is ideological, tribalistic ranting.

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@TeHenare

1 year

“Elizabeth has a tendency to call people 'racist' if they disagree with her” 😂 Ah, that’s the entire ideologically captured left! Anyone who says something that doesn’t align perfectly with the approved mantra is immediately “otherised” and deemed evil.

Green Party sources accuse MP Elizabeth Kerekere of 'bullying'

Neither Kerekere nor the alleged victim of her 'crybaby' remark, Chlöe Swarbrick, would talk to RNZ about the latest claims.

www.rnz.co.nz

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@TeHenare

9 months

It’s possible to hold all of these views simultaneously: 1. The previous government did some good things 2. The current government are doing some good things 3. The previous government did some shit things 4. The current government are doing some shit things #EndTribalism

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@TeHenare

1 year

@RichardDawkins As a Maori atheist who teaches Matauranga Maori for a living - can I just say that MM is rich and interesting (to me) and culturally relevant in NZ - but it is NOT comparable to science as a method or body of knowledge and should NOT be taught in science class.

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@TeHenare

1 year

The “mātauranga māori is equal to science” or “moon phases affect our energy” nonsense has been frustrating. So it’s refreshing to read about a brilliant Māori scientist using actual science to try and improve things for humankind! Ka mau te wehi!

Young Māori physicist seeking to harness power of the stars

Fusion has been a pipe dream for decades, but OpenStar's Ratu Mataira is on a mission to change the world.

www.1news.co.nz

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@TeHenare

1 year

I can’t think of it right now - but there’s a word for treating someone differently based primarily on their race… 🤔

nzherald

@nzherald

1 year

Auckland surgeons must now consider ethnicity in prioritising patients for operations

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@TeHenare

9 months

One of the most deeply racist ideas is that all members of a particular racial group share the exact same thoughts and those who don’t share those prescribed thoughts cannot be members of that group.

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@TeHenare

1 year

There’s never been a more important time for critical thinking & rational, nuanced dialogue about complex issues than this time of information overload & social media. The Disinformation Project: “Everyone who expresses a view that we don’t like is a genocidal nazi!”

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@TeHenare

11 months

For the 100th time: The root causes of poor health outcomes are things like higher rates of poverty + childhood trauma & ACEs + poor quality housing. A seperate māori health system addresses *none* of these root causes. Improve health? Address root causes!

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@TeHenare

2 years

A Māori Prime Minister may help to inspire some Māori youth, but what is FAR more impactful is the example set by the adults within our own whānau. And we don’t have to wait for elections or party nominations, we can choose to set that example and inspire them right now.

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@TeHenare

1 year

Advocating for the *human right of free speech* - even for groups and views I absolutely despise - is NOT advocating for those groups or their views. That this needs to be explained to people, let alone a leading academic, is insanity 🤯

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@TeHenare

1 year

A letter Henare Kohere (my g.g.grandfather) wrote to his 3 young children in 1915 before departing for war. A tender moment between a dad and his kids who lost their mum only a few years prior. Sad knowing they wouldn’t see their dad in the flesh again - killed at Somme, 1916.

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@TeHenare

2 years

@RealCandaceO @SamHarrisOrg I missed the part where you proved him wrong? 🤷🏾‍♂️

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@TeHenare

2 years

Mātauranga Māori (Maori knowledge) includes science. It also includes superstition and supernatural claims, which are clearly NOT science. Academics and activists who have pushed the idea that MM is equal to science should be deeply ashamed.

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@RichardDawkins

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@TeHenare

1 year

REMINDER: You can still be Māori and not - be religious or spiritual - have a tā moko - vote Māori Party Ngā mihi :)

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@TeHenare

6 months

Pick one: A) Both are vandalism B) Both are legitimate protest C) One is vandalism, the other protest

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@TeHenare

7 months

One of the most insane accusations I get on this forum is that I’m secretly a pākeha pretending to be Māori 😂🤦🏾‍♂️ It immediately reveals that the person is either profoundly ignorant or incapable of even mildly nuanced thought. In this case it’s both.

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@TeHenare

7 months

As someone who is immersed in Mātauranga Māori, who teaches MM for a living, it’s clear to me that MM is not comparable to science as a body of knowledge, or a methodology. I’m constantly told by woke academics - many non-Maori and none who understand MM - that I’m misguided.

Jerry Coyne

@Evolutionistrue

7 months

The U.S. is following New Zealand, and it's not to our advantage.

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@TeHenare

1 year

According to Mātauranga Māori, children born with disabilities are either a punishment from the atua (gods) or the consequence of mākutu (a curse). Do the writers advocate reintroducing these examples of MM and indigenous wisdom or nah?

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@TheSpinoffTV

1 year

Before we can Indigenise science, we have to decolonise science. The pūtaiao model provides a pathway.

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@TeHenare

1 year

The ‘Disinformation Project’ makes more extraordinary claims which go completely unchallenged by our major news broadcaster. Distrust in govt institutions is growing which impacts social cohesion causing significant social issues. Giving TDP a megaphone makes this much worse.

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@1NewsNZ

1 year

Anti-trans hate in NZ becoming 'genocidal' - Disinformation Project

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@TeHenare

1 year

NZ on the brink of a measles outbreak and again Māori are most at risk due to lowest immunisation rates, some communities as low as 35% ffs! Similar situation in Samoa 2019 where 83 people died, mostly children. Low vax rates are largely a symptom of deeper systemic flaws.

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@TeHenare

1 year

You can’t lament low participation rates of Māori in science while also pushing an insanely stupid narrative that science is ‘eViL kOloNiaL wHytE sUPreMeRcY’🤪

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@etangata

1 year

“We are swimming upstream, the trout are nipping at our heels, the farmers are draining our habitat, and algae are stealing our oxygen. It’s hard to survive, let alone thrive, in your white science department.” — Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister4

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@TeHenare

1 year

@BenJStrang Please stop! You’re doing the ‘woke white dude defending helpless brown people’ thing, which not only infantilises Māori people, but whitewashes the serious social issues that exist in some of our communities. 🙏🏾

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@TeHenare

6 months

@WillieJLabour It’s about the principle of political/ideological neutrality in a shared public space. You’re only supportive because it aligns with your personal politics.

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@TeHenare

6 months

Hamas can be commended for one thing: Their grasp of the current state of the west. They understand - better than us - that the west is plagued with hyper-privileged, self-loathing brats with unfettered access to social media & the critical thinking skills of a banana.

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@TeHenare

1 year

Matariki thoughts: - Stars affect our mood & energy ❌ - Stars predict prosperity ❌ - Supernatural claims ❌ - Non-secular karakia ❌ - Mātauranga Māori equal to science ❌ - Uniquely Aotearoa celebration ✅ - Time with the whānau & friends ✅ Ngā mihi o te wā.

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@TeHenare

4 months

In pre-colonial times, wāhine Māori - even “high-born” ones - were traded as commodities between chiefs, enslaved after battles, couldn’t inherit land in most cases, and female infanticide was far more common than male. The claims by Dr Murphy here are a fantasy, not a reality.

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@etangata

4 months

“The truth is, colonisation has affected wāhine differently from tāne because it’s a patriarchal process. It has elevated our men to a superior status and recast wāhine as inferior.” — Dr Ngahuia Murphy

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@TeHenare

5 months

🧵 ‘Mātauranga Māori’ is translated as ‘Māori Knowledge’. In my opinion, a better translation is ‘Māori Cultural Perspective’. This more accurately reflects the fact that MM includes knowledge but also includes many unsubstantiated, supernatural claims 1/3

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@TeHenare

9 months

I haven’t caught up on many maiden speeches but of the ones I’ve seen I have to say National’s @JamesMeagerMP is one of the most impressive! Style, yes, but more importantly in substance, particularly regarding the importance of social investment. Ngā mihi, e hika!

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@TeHenare

5 months

A ‘safe space’, where your ideas and feelings are protected from challenge, is a cultural meme imported from USA universities. It has NO cultural context in Māoridom whatsoever. Even the Marae, the hub of Māori culture, is a space where our ideas & feelings are often assaulted.

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@TeHenare

1 year

I teach ‘indigenous ways of knowing’ or Mātauranga Māori for a living. It’s interesting and valuable to me and many others, but it’s not comparable to modern science.

Richard Dawkins

@RichardDawkins

1 year

“Suffering does not give you special expertise in understanding the universe, or the ability to make valid comparisons between indigenous knowledge and modern science” (Jerry Coyne).

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@TeHenare

1 year

“It follows revelations that Lal sent multiple hateful, racist, and homophobic tweets spanning several years prior to being awarded the title of Young New Zealander of the Year on Friday.” Still not sure how supporters/judges reconcile this part. Cognitive dissonance 🤷🏾‍♂️

Chris Lynch

@chrislynchmedia

1 year

The world’s first transgender woman to receive a Queen’s Royal Honour has accused an Auckland activist of causing more harm than good.

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@TeHenare

7 months

I’ve expressed support for @_chloeswarbrick on some issues & I think, like @dbseymour , she’s a brilliant ‘politician’. But this was a train wreck! It’s painful to watch an otherwise intelligent person tie themselves in illogical knots to justify their deeply ideological views.

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@NZQandA

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Green co-leadership contender Chlöe Swarbrick continued to use a pro-Palestinian chant, despite being told by a Jewish school in her electorate that it was considered by many to be hateful and offensive

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@TeHenare

7 months

It’s even more preposterous when women make this claim. You seriously want to return to a system of law where the vast majority of wāhine were mere chattel & a tradable commodity of chiefs?

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@TeHenare

1 year

The people (many academics) calling for increased restrictions on free speech are the same people who would last about 3 seconds in a country where there are increased restrictions on free speech. The paradox of privilege.

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@TeHenare

8 months

Attempts by the right to undermine or reinterpret Te Tiriti o Waitangi were once easily dismissed as feeble rantings of fringe loons. But the left has descended so deeply into identity politics that these views - when juxtaposed with woke insanity - are now seen as reasonable.

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@TeHenare

7 months

@Joe_Trinder House prices doubled on her watch. Housing costs are the biggest driver of poverty and inequity in Aotearoa. And she could have prevented that but chose not to. “Best PM in history” is just factually nonsensical.

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@TeHenare

2 years

1. Karakia which are a Maori translation of a Christian prayer shouldn’t be used in public spaces (happens a lot!). It is a clear breach of the principle of secularism. NZ is a secular country, not a Christian one.

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@TeHenare

6 months

A rep. rugby team is a shared public space, like a school, which means it should endeavour to maintain political & ideological neutrality. A haka that expresses a strong, yet subjective, political stance is a beach of this important principle of neutrality

Hurricanes Poua lash out at government in revamped haka

The women's Super Rugby Aupiki team Hurricanes Poua have kicked off their season with a new haka calling out the coalition government.

www.rnz.co.nz

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@TeHenare

1 year

The ‘spirit of Georgina’ has been invoked a lot over the past week. Her actual words here are poignant and appear to completely contradict the sentiments of many of those ventriloquising her.

Georgina Beyer: “Tell Me to Shut Up and Go Away and I’ll Scream Even Louder”

Levi Joule talks to kiwi legend and rainbow trailblazer Georgina Beyer Over the past decade, the world’s first Transsexual MP (a ‘controversial’ term which we will get to later) has had dozens of …

gayexpress.co.nz

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@TeHenare

1 year

@NZGreens @MaramaDavidson As a one time Green voter - it’s pretty much impossible for me to trust someone who makes claims like “white cis men are responsible for all the violence in the world”. We desperately need evidence-based SOLUTIONS - not insane ideology.

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@TeHenare

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@davidfarrier Another brown guy not behaving exactly how you want him to?

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@TeHenare

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The people who claimed that simply questioning the role of trans women in women’s sports was equivalent to ‘genocide’ now want people to trust their definition of ‘genocide’ in other contexts? 🤔

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@TeHenare

5 months

@davidfarrier Another brown guy not behaving exactly how you want him to?

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@TeHenare

1 year

It’s NOT inherently racist to question issues like co-governance or express concerns about things like mātauranga maori in the curriculum. It’s absolutely racist to deny the overwhelming historical, archaeological, linguistic, and genetic evidence of Maori indigeneity.

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@TeHenare

6 months

@Slabsngirders @YasMohammedxx Holy shit you’re getting owned 😬 Might want to venture out of the echo chamber more often.

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@TeHenare

7 months

@foundersam That’s the ‘two wrongs fallacy’, bro. Online vitriol & abuse of women is wrong whether it’s targeted at Ardern or anyone else. “I can harbour animosity towards women because others did it to Jacinda” is not the moral statement you think it is. It’s a very dangerous mentality.

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@TeHenare

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According to tikanga, females are refused the right to practice whaikōrero (oratory). That’s 50% of the population refused their right to FS in this context off the bat, purely because they’re female. It’s madness to suggest tikanga can inform modern FS. Worst take on FS ever.

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@etangata

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“Dialogue, debate, disagreement, challenge and contestation have always been important in te ao Māori, and tikanga provides a framework that protects and supports the free exchange of ideas.” — Dr Carwyn Jones @Ahikaroa

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@MorganGodfery Those “freaks” you’re talking about also included feminists, women’s rights groups, Maori women’s rights groups. Might want to pump the brakes a bit bro and make sure your own humanity is intact too.

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@TeHenare

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Another day, another Green Party scandal 🤦🏾‍♂️ One of the greatest achievements of the Greens has been to convince their voters that they have higher than average moral standards. “I’ve never met a deeply tribal ideologue who I would consider a moral person” - Me, 2024

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A very fair and reasoned take from @Rachel_Smalley imo. It’s insane that it’s one of the only reasoned takes on this issue I can find 🤯

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There’s a gargantuan difference between the scientific explanation of the origin of the universe, and the cultural claim that a disgruntled son pushed mum & dad apart. There are places to teach cultural perspectives in the curriculum. Science class is NOT one of those places 3/3.

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@TeHenare

1 year

Free speech means that people are free to express and share views that others may find abhorrent. It also means that people are free to express their opposition to those views. #FreeSpeech

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@TeHenare

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“this Government will not waver in its mission to exterminate Māori” If so, it fits the definition of genocide and a case must be presented to the ICJ. So, is there a genocide? Or have we - stupidly - normalised the use of extreme language and the flagrant misuse of words?

Ani O'Brien

@aniobrien

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HANSARD transcription of MARIAMENO KAPA-KINGI (Te Pāti Māori ) General Debate 1 May 2024. Mōrena. No matter my words today, this Government will not waver in its mission to exterminate Māori. I might be tempted to change tone and say: Get rid of Section 7AA of the Oranga

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@maxdnharris @_chloeswarbrick She frequently uses a genocidal slogan that a terrorist organisation uses to call for the eradication of Jews. She was even asked not to use that slogan by the Jewish community. She refused. That’s deeply concerning.

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@TeHenare

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The idea that everyone from a) to e) is part of the ‘racist underbelly of New Zealand’ is an example of how deeply tribal and desperately lacking in nuance, political discourse has become.

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Is that why they were regularly traded as a commodity between chiefs? Is that why northern chiefs sent 100s of their daughters to be whores for sailors in the brothels of Kororāreka? Strange way to treat your “repository of life” and “portal to the spirit world” aye? 🤔

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@TeHenare I dunno if you even know about tikanga. Wahine are the repository of life and death. A portal to the spirit world. As such they are the most important part of oranga maori.

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Been offline at a whānau wedding for most of today. If I could some up in 1 word what I’ve seen since logging on it would be: Yuck! Transphobia: Yuck! Women being silenced: Yuck! Religious bigotry: Yuck! Assault: Yuck! Tribalism: Yuck! Kia kaha tātou, Aotearoa/NZ 😞❤️

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Patronising to be told by hyper-privileged lefties about Māori health disparities because they just read about them🤦🏾‍♂️ Mother & siblings: Breast cancer, obesity, heart disease, hyperthyroidism, mental health, emphysema, etc,! 3 dead before 60, one dead at 27 due to heart attack.

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Not many New Zealanders I admire more than Moana Jackson, but this was probably his most poorly considered opinion. If the exercise of free speech had to consider the feelings of every other human, free expression would be untenable.

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@TeHenare

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@mazbouq I teach Matauranga Maori for a living. I grew up immersed in it. It includes some science but is NOT equivalent to science as a body of knowledge or method. Dawkins’ criticisms of MM in science is legit and absolutely justified, as is his criticism of religion.

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@phillippaonline I’m Maori (i.e. don’t have to imagine) and this policy is not only blatantly racist, but it is a perfect way for the government and its devout supporters to ignore the actual causes of health disparities: poverty, deprivation, mainly driven by unaffordable housing.

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@vlcnz NZ said YES to intimidation, threats of violence, & assault, including the brutal assault of not one but TWO elderly kuia, for which charges are still to be laid by police. As more “sunlight” Is shed in the event, more & more people are realising this was a deeply shameful day.

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@Adam_Currie_NZ You can stand against the killing of innocent civilians - both innocent Israelis and Palestinians - and still support the right of Israel to exist and Jewish people in general. The failure here is your ability to think critically and hold an even mildly nuanced position.

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@TeHenare

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Sunrise with the waka hourua (double-hulled canoe), Haunui, 2017. We’d just sailed from Auckland to Whitianga overnight. Haunui is one of several waka hourua that is used to train crew & navigators & revitalise Polynesian celestial navigation and seafaring 🌅 #M ātaurangaMāori

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@nicgaston “horrific bullying”? You can’t be serious?! The attack on Dawkins is far more vile and nasty and unbecoming and I wouldn’t even call that ‘horrific bullying’. This is cult-like mentality where you are extremely and perpetually offended when others criticise your group.

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Mātauranga Māori is not science.

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@TeHenare

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🧵 ‘Mātauranga Māori’ is translated as ‘Māori Knowledge’. In my opinion, a better translation is ‘Māori Cultural Perspective’. This more accurately reflects the fact that MM includes knowledge but also includes many unsubstantiated, supernatural claims 1/3

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6… the use of Karakia that retain the language and poetry without invoking gods or the supernatural aren’t necessarily a breach of secularism and *can* be justified culturally, and according to obligations under Te Tiriti. #Secularism #Karakia

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Q: Is the earth flat? A: No. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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1 year

This 🎯 For the umpteenth time: Māori are not a monolith! I would vote for TPM in a heartbeat if they had good, evidence-based policy that would address the major issues we are facing as a country. They don’t.

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@aniobrien

1 year

Those who frame support/opposition to Te Pati Māori as reflective of sentiment toward all Māori are being politically manipulative. Most Māori don't vote for TPM. They poll around 2% & are just one group's opinion of how to represent Māori. There are many other opinions.

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“It is white cis men who cause violence in the world” - Marama. Factually incorrect, especially in NZ, text book example of racism/sexism “From the river to the sea” - Chloe. A genocidal slogan used by terrorist organisation Hamas to call for the extermination of Jews 🤷🏾‍♂️

Green Party NZ

@NZGreens

6 months

#BREAKING - Chlöe Swarbrick has been elected Green Party co-leader, alongside Marama Davidson. ✅✅

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@patbrittenden No. Disparities in Māori health outcomes don’t stem from the health system, they’re rooted in higher rates of childhood adversity & trauma which stem from higher rates of poverty & deprivation. To improve Maori health outcomes we MUST reduce rates of childhood trauma & ACEs.

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I applaud this move by @PaulGoldsmithMP ! If you want to know how poorly understood free speech is in NZ, look at the replies from people who oppose this decision🤦🏾‍♂️

Paul Goldsmith

@PaulGoldsmithMP

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I’ve instructed the Law Commission to stop all work on hate speech legislation.

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2. Traditionally, karakia were used to placate or appease or gain favour from the atua (supernatural entities, deities, gods). These types of karakia are also a breach of secularism.

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On the whole, James was a reasonable voice amongst what has become a deeply ideological political party which has abandoned its environmentalist roots in favour of a hyper fixation on US style wokeism & identity politics. Ngā mihi, James.

Green Party NZ

@NZGreens

7 months

After eight historic years leading the Green Party, James Shaw has announced he is resigning as co-leader. A new co-leader will be announced on 10th March. Thank you for everything, James.

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1 year

@NZGreens @jamespeshaw @MaramaDavidson Except you have no leverage because you have ruled out going with National for years, so Labour knows you’re in their pocket regardless. Nice sentiment though, I guess.

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1 year

Being accused of being a ‘nazi sympathiser’ by someone (an academic?) who has probably never experienced racism and who looks like they could have been a member of Hitler youth - is so insanely bizarre! 🤯

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@TeHenare

1 year

@FitzmauriceLuke Both of my grandfathers fought in WW2 with the Māori Battalion against Nazis. I’ve experienced racism based purely on my skin colour and name while you likely never have. Your insane accusation is a reflection of both your intellect and your extreme privilege. Ka aroha hoki.

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The charge of “racism” is often tossed about so carelessly that it has almost lost its meaning. But the claims made here are absolutely racist - by definition. There are some legitimate arguments against co-governance, this goofy shit ain’t one.

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“The rest of the world in those 600 years was inventing and developing… But not Maori. Something was wrong with Maori. They were different. This issue has never been addressed in NZ. It’s never been allowed to be discussed. Until now. Until the Stop Co-Governance Road Show.”

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1 year

Great read! Disinformation is a serious issue, but ‘The Disinformation Project’ is *not* the solution, in fact, it’s my opinion that this opportunistic group (pair?) is making things much worse.

Bryce Edwards

@bryce_edwards

1 year

Political extremism & deception isn’t being taken seriously enough – especially by The Disinformation Project, which peddles a lot of hyperbole & scaremongering without proper research. My column today about how the activism behind their pseudoscience does more harm than good:

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@SeanPlunket Did you feel for Metiria Turei? 🤔

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1 year

@top_nz continue to rise! 👀

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5. CONCLUSION: Karakia that are translations of Christian prayers or that invoke gods or Maori supernatural beliefs - in anything more than a metaphoric sense - are a breach of the principle of secularism…

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People who can’t tell the difference between legitimate criticism of something and dumb racism, think that my criticism of the inclusion of Maori supernatural beliefs in science class is a green light for their dumb racism. Go away, dumb racist 👍🏾

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@RichardDawkins Mātauranga Māori (Maori knowledge) includes science. It also includes superstition and supernatural claims, which are clearly NOT science. Academics and activists who have pushed the idea that MM is equal to science should be deeply ashamed.

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@FitzmauriceLuke Both of my grandfathers fought in WW2 with the Māori Battalion against Nazis. I’ve experienced racism based purely on my skin colour and name while you likely never have. Your insane accusation is a reflection of both your intellect and your extreme privilege. Ka aroha hoki.

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Their father (my g.father) was a returned soldier WW2. Like many Maori returned soldiers in rural communities he had 0 support for what was clearly severe PTSD. Like many - turned to alcohol to self medicate. Don’t talk to me like I don’t know about Maori health outcomes ffs!🤦🏾‍♂️

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