Ponder the fact that there won’t be a story like this and wonder about why that is. It is genuinely weird, right?
Te Pāti Māori’s Crossed Guns Post Incites Online Controversy AUCKLAND – Te Pāti Māori has become embroiled in an online controversy following a social media post featuring an image of crossed guns.
The contentious post comes as the party gears up for the Nationwide Action Day, set to coincide with the opening of New Zealand’s 54th Parliament. The image, which was posted in the backdrop of the party’s call to resist the election of a National government, has received significant criticism from various corners of social media.
Critics argue that the use of such provocative and violent symbolism could potentially be misconstrued as a call for violence rather than peaceful protest. Social media platforms, including on X (formerly known as Twitter) and Facebook, have been flooded with comments voicing concerns about the meaning and implications of the graphic.
Some users worried that the use of firearms in the image were not consistent with a call to peaceful protest and could incite violence. Despite the ongoing controversy, Te Pāti Māori has yet to release an official statement addressing the concerns raised about the image. The debate continues to rage online, casting a shadow over the party’s preparations for the upcoming Nationwide Action Day.
If any other organisation or party had done posters for a protest march which included firearms on them, the media would have melted down and would have written stories condemning it, with comments from gun safety groups, radicalisation experts etc.
But once again the media have a double standard where TPM can say or do anything without criticism. They can call getting rid of 400 bureaucrats, “deliberate genocide” and they can use firearms on posters for a protest march.
I give credit to Labour’s Peeni Henare for calling them out on their extremism. But it is a reminder of how extreme a left Government would have been if they won in 2023. Instead they are threatening three years of protest because the parties that won the election are actually going to implement the policies they got elected on.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
7 comments:
Yet another reason for de-funding the state media and removing all government advertising revenue immediately.
These guys have got to go and need to be priority number one if this government wants a decent shot at succeeding.
Have they a plan to do this or is Winston just shooting his mouth off?
Interesting (to say the least) to see how this day goes. I think the country feels a bit patronising towards Te Pati Maori - they're like children, "don't know any better". (I'm not sure it has occurred to them that they have been doing themselves out of a job.)
Which is pretty silly of us. They are limited in intelligence and knowledge, but they haven't got anything more constructive to occupy their time and could be dangerous. It is essential that the Police are alert to any law-breaking, and that they are called to account. Yes the guns on the poster is one example - thin end of the wedge. I so hope they become history.
DeeM fully agree.
I would establish a discrete Govt. podium and do the show and tell separate to TVNZ but as the big shareholder just indicate slots when broadcasts are to be made absent all spin idiots.
Defunding all Media of Govt. advertising and use social media to push information out and potentially also through emails to all citizens and texts.
let then fade away.
TPM are playing with fire. Inciting violence is “go to jail” stuff.
The problem is they can’t control the message once it gets out.
Anonymous I agree. This Maori antagonism and hypocrisy has simmered against NZ as we know it, in one form or another since the Waikato tribes back tracked on their commitment to ToW. It is all about leveraging to their own ends by any means, violence included. Not interested in being one people. Prior to the Europeans they used the same approach towards each other.
It is not about the brown clowns throwing their toys out of the cot. It is about conquest and domination of whoever is in the way.
Sound over dramatic or cynical? Check out Te Rauparaha - a man of his time and now.
Of course there are others too. Plenty.
Those more artful maori, like Nga Tahu, who have stealthily advanced toward co governance and hence maori control of NZ, must curse the dim witted extroverts of Te Pati (and other big mouths) for making maori objectives so obvious and for demonstrating the likely outrageous outcome, thus stirring resistance which by 2026, with the diminishment of the cancellation threat, should be very well developed. And hopefully will be.
Crossed guns, how authentic of Maori culture and art - oughtn't be meres? And what's with the little crosses - are they signifying gravestones and deaths? These clowns really are playing with fire and if they continue to push it, their minority will learn the hard way what the will of the majority can deliver. Even in 1840 their tipuna had the sense to realise a good deal when it presented. But throughout history fools are just that, and their mokopuna will have to live with the consequences.
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