This email is to let you know that the Faculty of Law, with our support is piloting a dedicated LAWS206 tutorial group for ākonga Māori who want to be in a like-minded group for the tutorials in this subject. We are only running one group in the pilot to see how it goes so we are not able to accommodate everyone. So, sorry if we cannot fit you into the group. The long-term goal is to have such a group operate in all the LAWS 200s, but we are starting with the pilot in Public Law only this year.
This is well intentioned but I think a very bad idea. What does it teach future lawyers if you start by saying, hey do you want to be segregated from other races? It also potentially leads to groupthink, and a filtering of contrary views.
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.
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David, if that's what the maoris want, let them have it. That must mean that we can have European only classes. Fairs fair. However if having race based segregation in this country implemented by left woke racist tossers is deemed racist then it must cease immediately. I do not want to fund maori only classes. Watching with interest......we are thinking of opening a European only Cafe....Fairs fair ay.
If true, no surprise.
Woke ( minority, identity groups) is the opposite of apartheid (= majority rights) Because " woke" claims equity as it base.)
In fact, pure Marxist - and much more dangerous.
I’m not surprised.
In New Zealand academia these days the views of those who have certain group identities are being overtly privileged. Any discussion that contests the group-think of such people is regarded as an attack on the privileged ones’ “cultural safety”.
Needless to say, it is open season on attacking anyone outside those privileged groups – and their ancestors too.
As I’ve commented before, we still have a long, long way to go to remove race-based policies and practices in New Zealand. In fact it only seems to be getting worse and more entrenched in academia.
LFC
What about the white people who feel threatened in the current environment and want a safe space too?
I'm looking forward to seeing designated areas for Pakeha.
Are visitors to NZ going to be separated by race also ?
Watch out when a visitor gets the " down to the back of the bus whitey " treatment !
I can see the international headlines ( but none in NZ)
Why are most NZers , like sheep, accepting this racist segregation ?
A comments man but not a researcher - right David? Imagine a competent researcher looking for a new angle on this story. Where might they go? Who hasn't been asked about this outrageous, racist segregation. BRAINWAVE! The students! And what do they think. They think you David, and all the other nannies that want to tell them where to sit are an absolute joke. Why? Because they are blind to ethnicity/ race. They simply don't care. You are talking to an older generation whose views will become increasingly irrelevant as they fade away. As you will.
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