. . .Chloe got a bit grumpy when a reporter asked, repeatedly, why the Greens are asking Tana to resign and shunning her in public, when old-mate Julie Anne Genter’s still in the party despite multiple aggressive bullying allegations.
The implication was the Greens must be a bit racist towards Tana cause she’s Māori.
Chloe was outraged. She rejected it. She refuted it. It was a reductive argument. Tana has done x,y,z and Julie Anne a,b,c.
The irony of the party best known for calling everyone else in the room racist till they’re blue in the face not being accused themselves of racism over not one, in Tana, two in Kerikeri, but three MP’s (Turei), was almost too much for new co-leader to take. . .
It’s not three, but four if you count Golriz Ghahraman too.
The reasons the four left the party – willingly or not – are varied but I don’t think race came in to it.
Genter is before the privileges committee for her verbal assault on Matt Doocey in the debating chamber but the only comments I can find on her losing her tempter with at least two members of the public, are that she is getting help with her anger.
However I don’t think think race has anything to do with the party leaving it at this.
That said, the Greens are racist but not in the way they are being accused of.
They are racists because they are ardent followers of identity politics, putting immutable characteristics – gender, sex, and ,for them oh so importantly, race – ahead of individual agency and autonomy.
One blatant example of this is the party’s constitution :
The Green Party constitution no longer requires a male co-leader, instead requiring one woman and one person of any gender, plus a requirement that one must be Māori. . .
This means if the best people for the role happened to be men of any race but Māori, the skills and ability for the position of at least one would be trumped by someone less abled who ticked the race and gender boxes.
Another example or racism came from the party’s co-leader Marama Davidson:
Marama Davidson is refusing to apologise publicly for saying it’s “white cis men who cause violence in the world”. . .
It’s not hard to find plenty more.
Hansard is full of rhetoric based on the Greens adherence to identity politics in general and their race-based bias in particular.
Had it not been for that, the disgraced MPs would almost certainly have been dealt with more strongly and sooner than they were.
None of that explains why Genter is an outlier, but I am sure that for once the Green Party isn’t considering race in dealing with the problem.
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
4 comments:
Of the two leaders, only one can be male but two female, and one must be Maori? That seems like a subtle hint of both sexism and racism. Green by name and green by nature! Imagine the Greens and the Tea Party Maori running "New Zealand" in a partnership together? WOW!
Kevan
People who use 'race' or see 'race' as the precursor to any form of victimisation in the face of blatant and outright law/policy/rule breaking are in fact the very thing they are calling out.
They themselves are the Racists. If they are not then they are using this word as a crutch to excuse anyone of shaded colour as a victim rather than seeing thier demise as created by their own hands with zero accountability and respect for either themselves or others.
The word itself has been so overused by the racists it is now a meaningless epithet.
Speak the truth and if someone calls you a racists, call them on that statement and hold them to account for the trite tokenistic insult it is being used for.
Are the Greens racist? Yes.
Ele, you touch only on a couple of points, but the answer to your question is : yes
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