While all that was going on in the USA, back in New Zealand Te Pati Maori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer made inflammatory statements on Q+A, claiming:
“We’ve got a Government that is genocidal, ecocide, we know that they are white supremacists… There’s no if, they are.”
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Such extremist rhetoric is dangerous and should be scrutinised by the media. (To his credit, Jack Tame did challenge this outrageous claim.) If a centre-right party leader had accused the previous Government of genocide against whites, it would dominate headlines for days with widespread condemnation demanded.
This is the kind of extremism that incites violence. It even has a technical name: stochastic terrorism:
Stochastic terrorism is targeted political violence that has been instigated by hostile public rhetoric directed at a group or individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, this is accomplished by using indirect, vague, or coded language that allows the instigator to plausibly disclaim responsibility for the resulting violence. A key element is the use of social media and other distributed forms of communications where the person who carries out the violence has no direct connection to the users of violent rhetoric.
Wikipedia
Repeatedly telling a segment of the population that the government seeks to commit genocide against them will inevitably lead to extremism and violence. Such statements are unacceptable from any MP, let alone a party co-leader. They surpass even the most extreme remarks made by political figures in the US.
Remember too that Te Pati Maori use imagery of guns and talk of revolution and burning in their social media posts as well.
Labour and the Greens must take a stand against this.
It’s not enough to merely distance themselves with tepid disapproval. They should unequivocally exclude Te Pati Maori from any future coalition unless the party renounces its violent extremist language and stops using stochastic terrorism to get their way.
If they fail to act, New Zealand risks following the US down a perilous path. Encouraging politicians, whether left or right, to use such inflammatory language will only lead to more violence and tragedy.
Cam Slater is a New Zealand-based blogger, best known for his role in Dirty Politics and publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog, which operated from 2005 until it closed in 2019. Cam blogs regularly on the BFD - where this article was sourced.
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Judging if from nothing else but their relative school acheivement rates, many maori are of significantly reduced mental ability. Such crude rhetoric as the maori party spew is very readily accepted by simple souls already brainwashed to imagine/pursue decolonisation. The HRC must be racking their brains for a meaningless response.
Te Pati Mokomai claim of ‘genocide’ are risible given that the Māori population—which due to the twin impacts of imported diseases to which Maori initially had no immunity and a massive decline in breeding age females as a result of the Musket War reached its low point of around 44, 000 in the 1890s— has now grown to around 1, 000, 000 if we count everyone with a Māori ancestor.
KAI TANGATA DAY
Calls for a “Land Wars Commemoration Day” are misplaced, to say the least.
According to a Government website, the total death toll in all the battles and skirmishes fought between Crown troops and loyal Maori on the one hand, and aggressive challengers to the Crown's sovereignty on the other, hardly suggests conflict that was [a] widespread; or [b] genocidal in intent.
The numbers below aggregate data for individual battles fought between 1845 -1872, as provided by the historian James Cowan, “who sometimes overstated the casualties of Maori who opposed the settlers. “
Rebel Maori: 2, 154
Crown troops + loyal Maori: 745
Since there were an estimated 100, 000 natives in 1840, the total number who died opposing the Crown over the 27 year period in question was just over 2% of that number.
To put these numbers into perspective, averaged out over 27 years,, that's around 80 rebel Maori casualties per annum, or 0.08 of the 1840 Maori population in any one year. Some 8/100ths of one percent.
If this was "genocide," the Crown was clearly either not very good at it, or wasn't trying too hard.
According to various estimates, some 60, 000 – 100, 000 natives died either directly (murdered) or indirectly (starved to death after the tribes neglected cultivating for fighting) as the result of the intertribal Musket Wars of the 1820s and 1830s.
These numbers make it clear that the true genocide of New Zealand history was Maori-on-Maori.
Far more apt that instead of a “Land Wars Commemoration Day,” we have a “Kai Tangata Day” in remembrance of the Maori people killed, eaten, enslaved, raped, or dispossessed by other Maori prior to February 1840.
We the people need to "clean house" and start again. This 'corporate' circus has had its day.
AS JD said testerday: "DEFUND THE MAORI SEATS" - this slogan needs to be oft repeated and be a standard response to anything from being called a racist or to anyone using the dreaded "A" word instead of "New Zealand".
I sat through the clip and I must say I have not heard so much drivel from that woman with the english name.
Apart from the fact I could not understand a lot of her talking. That's probably by design tho'.
Will anything be done about her genocide accusations? probably not.
If I had made similar comment directed at Maori, my feet wouldn't touch the ground on my way to the slammer.
Get over yourself Packer and put your energies to the betterment of the whole country.
Yep. Call it out.
Hmmm - does this have "a connection to South Africa, and a specific African group - the African National Congress (ANC) who under the tutorage of a Foreign Power, not only spoke words of defiance, but also carried out acts of violence against the white population".
It is interesting, that once the ANC had control of South Africa, they did nothing for the People, and that is evident today with the noted claims of financial mismanagement, corruption within the Govt and also the Govt run entities that have failed to deliver (e.g. electricity & power to both business & homes) - the rise in crime, openly committed in broad daylight [with the Police standing, watching, but not interfering] - the purging of the white farming community, inter Tribal animosities, the increase in drug importation & use of same.
Am I allowed to draw a comparison to New Zealand and the Maori people - or would that be "deemed as Racist"??
You know - gangs, ram raids, drug dealing, Political issues, burglaries, the use of fire arms, family harm, is there anything I have missed?
The latest inaccuracy is that Maori are 20% of the population.
This is very important. The factor of ancestry ( however minimal or claimed historically without proof) is being used to define ethnicity/ indigeneity. This is giving access to significant privileges.
This situation should be made very clear to all citizens.
Maori and genocide !
Maori perpetrated a very successful genocide against Moriori on the Chathams Islands in 1835.
So blatently hypocritical that this modern Maori can even suggest that we are destroying Maori.
Perhaps she might condescendingly acknowledge that without western medicine and lifestyles Maori would only live to half their current norm ?
Spare me , and NZ, from the likes of this woman.
The far left as more dangerous than the far right. The far left have a large foothold in this country. They should be treated the same way the far right are....shut down, held accountable for their words and actions and locked up.
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