Sadly it has, entirely predictably, descended into a race scrap where by those who quite rightly ask questions about a highly contentious issue are simply called racist.
Being called racist is the laziest of responses sadly rolled out on queue to often these days by people who have run out of sensible arguments.
If you support putting people higher up a ladder or queue based on race say so.
We can disagree - but at least we know where we stand.
All that the Government have done so far this week is dig themselves a monumental hole where by they end up looking like they can’t even explain what it is they are trying to explain.
The doctor from Auckland Health on Monday started it on this show, a doctor …seemingly in support …in the middle of this so called dilemma on the hospital floor.
Unable to articulate just what it was they were doing other than telling us to talk to others and it had something to do with an algorithm.
The Health Minister was tying herself in knots over whether it was an Auckland thing or a national thing.
It seemed confined to Northland and Auckland and yet in the house on Tuesday when asked how many hospitals were involved she said Auckland and Middlemore - neither of which are in Northland
Then the Prime Minister decided that citing other criteria like rural living and poverty somehow made up for the fact race was part of it as well.
The critical part he missed or doesn’t get is the simple fact living rurally is not race based.
Being poor isn't race based, and they are separate categories
So if you are poor and lingering or in the country and lingering, you are prioritised as you should be, you might be Māori, you might not be.
Because that isn't the criteria.
Race, as a separate criteria, then gives you the leg up so many are now upset about. You get another crack at the queue; you on race alone get one more chance to be advanced.
A shot no one other than you gets and that is the bit that is wrong.
Anyone can be chronic in their condition, anyone can be poor or rural or old or young or anyone of the other criteria in that we are all equal.
But we are not equal on race - and there is your crime.
It's either a scandal because even they don't get it and therefore can't explain it, or it’s a scandal because they do get it and they just can’t argue their way out of it.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings
We can disagree - but at least we know where we stand.
All that the Government have done so far this week is dig themselves a monumental hole where by they end up looking like they can’t even explain what it is they are trying to explain.
The doctor from Auckland Health on Monday started it on this show, a doctor …seemingly in support …in the middle of this so called dilemma on the hospital floor.
Unable to articulate just what it was they were doing other than telling us to talk to others and it had something to do with an algorithm.
The Health Minister was tying herself in knots over whether it was an Auckland thing or a national thing.
It seemed confined to Northland and Auckland and yet in the house on Tuesday when asked how many hospitals were involved she said Auckland and Middlemore - neither of which are in Northland
Then the Prime Minister decided that citing other criteria like rural living and poverty somehow made up for the fact race was part of it as well.
The critical part he missed or doesn’t get is the simple fact living rurally is not race based.
Being poor isn't race based, and they are separate categories
So if you are poor and lingering or in the country and lingering, you are prioritised as you should be, you might be Māori, you might not be.
Because that isn't the criteria.
Race, as a separate criteria, then gives you the leg up so many are now upset about. You get another crack at the queue; you on race alone get one more chance to be advanced.
A shot no one other than you gets and that is the bit that is wrong.
Anyone can be chronic in their condition, anyone can be poor or rural or old or young or anyone of the other criteria in that we are all equal.
But we are not equal on race - and there is your crime.
It's either a scandal because even they don't get it and therefore can't explain it, or it’s a scandal because they do get it and they just can’t argue their way out of it.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings
5 comments:
How anyone can accept this as "ok" is beyond me. Is there any other democratic country on the planet that prioritises health care or anything for that matter based on race??? The mind boggles. How far this country has fallen..
A lesson on how to defend the indefensible and piss off everyone at the same time.
You gotta love our Govt, doing great work at keeping NZ , World leading 👍
You can be rest assured that if you are poor and lingering or in the country and lingering but you are not Maori, you will not be prioritised as you should be.
You can be rest assured if you are poor and lingering or in the country and lingering and you are Maori, you will be prioritised.
This government in in love with critical race theory and do not see how CRT is a racist ideology that in point of fact is designed by racists to destroy racial harmonics.
At work today in the Far North, this topic was raised by several Maori, they were all pissed off. Not one had a good thing to say about it.
Part of it was they were okay, looked after themselves and felt insulting that they were lumped into the poor victim box.
How does a trace maori unemployed on benefit, running a $30,000 Harley, rate re an employed longtime tax paying non trace maori?
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