He would refuse to do it, he says.
The upside for him is he gets to repeal it in a couple of months should the election go the way we think it will.
What was interesting about yesterday's interview on the subject with the good doctor from Auckland Health was, as much as he might have liked to defend it, he couldn’t in a way that made a lot of sense.
The simple truth is if you are of a certain ethnic persuasion you get a different track through the health system.
Race plays a part in the way you are treated in a system where the only criteria should be health.
I think David Seymour explained it particularly well as regards how we feel about it. Yes, if you can't afford the mortgage right now because of the cost of living crisis, then a race based health system isn't as high up the old priority list
But when he said it ran deep he is right. This is a fair, decent and open country - or at least it was
Race didn’t play anything like the role it has in the past six years.
Have there been issues historically? Of course.
But what this Government has done is hijack democracy and implement their own thinking around race.
Where once if a council wanted to implement Māori seats, you at least got the chance to vote on it.
They took that rule away.
Māori in a number of areas of life are now allowed to bypass democracy to advance their cause.
Māori have their own health provider.
Historically they have their own seats in parliament despite the fact the current system we run has never been more representative or accessible.
Māori get special treatment whether it be for Covid, sport or language.
A lot of Māori-ness has been foisted upon us whether we like it or not and more importantly whether it makes a jot of difference or not.
This has divided us, made us angry and at least part of that anger will be present come election day.
The anger stems from the fact deep down the vast majority of us know this is wrong.
Even if you argue it comes from a good place - it’s still wrong
We are all equal, or the country is shot, as we sit here this morning I think it’s more shot than equal.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings
The simple truth is if you are of a certain ethnic persuasion you get a different track through the health system.
Race plays a part in the way you are treated in a system where the only criteria should be health.
I think David Seymour explained it particularly well as regards how we feel about it. Yes, if you can't afford the mortgage right now because of the cost of living crisis, then a race based health system isn't as high up the old priority list
But when he said it ran deep he is right. This is a fair, decent and open country - or at least it was
Race didn’t play anything like the role it has in the past six years.
Have there been issues historically? Of course.
But what this Government has done is hijack democracy and implement their own thinking around race.
Where once if a council wanted to implement Māori seats, you at least got the chance to vote on it.
They took that rule away.
Māori in a number of areas of life are now allowed to bypass democracy to advance their cause.
Māori have their own health provider.
Historically they have their own seats in parliament despite the fact the current system we run has never been more representative or accessible.
Māori get special treatment whether it be for Covid, sport or language.
A lot of Māori-ness has been foisted upon us whether we like it or not and more importantly whether it makes a jot of difference or not.
This has divided us, made us angry and at least part of that anger will be present come election day.
The anger stems from the fact deep down the vast majority of us know this is wrong.
Even if you argue it comes from a good place - it’s still wrong
We are all equal, or the country is shot, as we sit here this morning I think it’s more shot than equal.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings
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Democracy died a long time ago (1986) when our government became a corporation. We've been a Corporatocracy system ever since. That's in keeping with all former democratic western nations.
The labour/greens/maori cult can obfuscate, prevaricate and tell all the fairytales they wish, but the plain fact is that they have introduced apartheid into everything they touch.
Or to paraphrase George Orwell: we are all equal, but some are more equal than others.
Maori are disproportionately represented in the prison inmate population - they are therefore 'disadvantaged'. To be consistent, perhaps we need different sentences for those with Maori or Pacifica blood to rectify this imbalance?
We have gone stark raving bonkers.
I would suspect that most Māori are sick and tired of being used like a political football and bearing the brunt of the fall out.
Everyday it’s Māori this and Maori that. None of it really helps anyone apart from a select greedy few who use the discontent to feather their nests.
Maori are our neighbours and live in NZ just like you and me.
THE SOFT LIBERAL BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATIONS
First we must define "Maori."
Those of us who live in the real world hold that 51% of the shares are required for a controlling interest in the company.
More than half-Maori = on balance a Maori
Half-Maori = you get to decide what side of the fence you climb down on (if you’re a fence-builder)
Less than half-Maori = a Pakeha with delusions of ethnicity, an ancestor-denier, an indigenous pretender.
Having got that out of the way, we must look at the personal circumstance of those – of any ethnicity or ethnic mix -- who are intergenerational under-achievers.
The propaganda claim to a collective [part-] Maori disadvantage has become one of NZ's most enduring myths.
As per Adolf Hitler’s “big lie” technique: repeat a lie loudly and often enough and it becomes the ‘truth.’
In fact, a majority of [part-] Maori are normally distributed around the socio-economic Bell Curve for the general population.
The problem is a recalcitrant inter-generational underclass of around 15% of [part-] Maori who are intergenerational welfare recipients or in low-waged jobs with no exit strategy who drag down the aggregate [part-] Maori data.
This sub-group passes its non-achiever views and values on to succeeding generations.
This is nothing to do with ethnicity but relates instead to bad personal choices.
Here's former Ministry of Social Development Chief Economist, Dr Simon Chapple, in a 2000 paper:
"Maori ethnicity is a particularly poor predictor of labour market success or failure and there is considerable overlap between Maori and non-Maori outcomes. It is [those who identify as] sole Maori with low literacy, poor education, and living in geographical concentrations that have labour market problems, not the Maori ethnic group as a whole (there are probably also sub-cultural associations with benefit dependence, sole parenthood, early natality, drug and alcohol abuse, physical violence, and illegal cash cropping).
"In other words the policy issue may need to be viewed primarily at a sub-cultural and socio-economic level rather than the coarse macro ethno-cultural level of Maori/non-Maori binaries."
If most part-Maori New Zealanders are doing just fine, the problem with those who fail to launch cannot be attributed to 'institutional racism' or to ‘white privilege,’ or to 'a legacy of colonisation,' but a lack of personal responsibility for one's life outcomes.”
Putting in at school is seen by part-Maori losers at the margin as 'acting white.' It is rapidly discouraged by group harassment and physical violence.
This is known as “The Crab Bucket Mentality.”
When one crab tries to climb out of the bucket, the other crabs gang up to pull it back down again.
Seen it many times growing up.
People are typically poor not because of what someone has done to them, but because of what they haven't done for themselves.
True poverty is -- first and foremost -- a poverty of spirit.
THE SOFT LIBERAL BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATIONS II
As black American political economist, Thomas Sowell, trenchantly observes: “Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity, in which some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while others are not held responsible for what they are doing today
Two simple questions:
[1] on what basis should someone who is less than half-Maori be regarded by anyone OUTSIDE their kin group as "Maori" just because they say they are.
"Snowflakes will be butt-hurt to discover that most people don’t share their self-delusion" is NOT an answer.
[2] on what basis should someone who possesses more of the blood of the coloniser than of the colonised be regarded as a "victim" of "white privilege" rather than its beneficiary?
Please don't tell me Maori genes are so inferior that even a smidge is enough to make someone a born loser and a perpetual inadequate.
Liberals need to feel important.
To do so, they are constantly on the watch for opportunities to engage in public moral preening and virtue-signalling for lining up with oppressed [sic] groups and classes.
As Thomas Sowell reminds us in “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as the Basis for Social Policy”:
“The vision of the anointed is one in which ills such as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from ‘society,’ rather than from individual choices and behaviour. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by ‘society.”
Oh, the soft liberal bigotry of low expectations.
What was that word beginning with "R" again ...
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