Essentially it says the public service, whether on health, education, justice, welfare etc. - can not act on race.
It says they can't see race as an individual entitlement that allows services, or money, or support to be a determining criteria.
This is part of the coalition agreement - as directed by ACT and New Zealand First. National Party supporters might want to ask why they didn’t have it as part of their criteria as well.
The idea that one race trumps another is absurd, unfair and leads nowhere good, especially if you are after good race relations and harmonious existence.
The Māori Party called it anti-Māori, which shows their level of ignorance, unless the Māori Party argues Māori deserve things no one else gets, and I don’t think even they would be that extreme.
We are all equal. I have never been able to ascertain why that concept is so hard to grasp.
The fact it's taken the Government this long to issue the edict must also be of concern. David Seymour suggested it's been complex.
Has it? How?
What we also need to be concerned about, as we saw last week in Hawkes' Bay, is pushback. For a so-called colour blind public service, we have nothing of the sort.
You can't hand out health care based on race, and yet that was exactly what they were doing.
You can't unilaterally invent Māori seats at council level - and yet councils are threatening lawyers in a local body version of a tantrum.
In the meantime, the Waitangi Tribunal continues to pump out findings like confetti.
Race unfairly dealt with cripples countries. We have enough to worry about these days without something that really is so simple to administer. We are all equal. We all have equal access to everything, whether it be democracy, health, education or welfare.
Needs, not race. How hard can it be?
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
The idea that one race trumps another is absurd, unfair and leads nowhere good, especially if you are after good race relations and harmonious existence.
The Māori Party called it anti-Māori, which shows their level of ignorance, unless the Māori Party argues Māori deserve things no one else gets, and I don’t think even they would be that extreme.
We are all equal. I have never been able to ascertain why that concept is so hard to grasp.
The fact it's taken the Government this long to issue the edict must also be of concern. David Seymour suggested it's been complex.
Has it? How?
What we also need to be concerned about, as we saw last week in Hawkes' Bay, is pushback. For a so-called colour blind public service, we have nothing of the sort.
You can't hand out health care based on race, and yet that was exactly what they were doing.
You can't unilaterally invent Māori seats at council level - and yet councils are threatening lawyers in a local body version of a tantrum.
In the meantime, the Waitangi Tribunal continues to pump out findings like confetti.
Race unfairly dealt with cripples countries. We have enough to worry about these days without something that really is so simple to administer. We are all equal. We all have equal access to everything, whether it be democracy, health, education or welfare.
Needs, not race. How hard can it be?
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
8 comments:
Mike appears to have forgotten that the last Government changed the rules and made a race a priority for service delivery.
Once upon a time in New Zealand advertising a job with a racial (under) or overtone was deemed to be quite (and rightly) illegal.....
...not now (post Ardern regime) it seems as race is now totally a 'thing'.....especially it seems if you are brown you have the 'low down' but if you're white you are not quite 'right'...
This government is reigning in the apartheid that the previous government (if they can be called that) created and curated and the MSM have continued to promote.
Scum rises to the top they say and CRT, identity politics and DEI all seem to rise to the top these days....
"David Seymour suggested it's been complex".
A diplomatic response while quietly taking the heat.
I find this all very upsetting. I have 2....what "they" would call, white cis males on the cusp of adulthood. I have taught them that the character of a person is the only important measure of a person....that wealth, race, circumstances, who they choose to love, where they come from, what they do for work, are all things that do not determine the worth of a person.....and here we are living in a world where they will be judged because they are white, male, and from what I currently know, heterosexual. I nolonger feel that I can tell them that they can be/do whatever they choose. I have to hold back from discouraging them to go to university where I worry they will be discriminated against and have their brains filled with this crap. I now have to teach them a different set of rules....to teach them not to let anyone tell them they are less because of who they are.....to tell them don't let this mush inside your heads. We have a huge bicultural family. On one side my sons have non Maori cousins and on the other Maori and all of this is an issue that none of us understands. We are not separate. We are family.
To Anon at 12 38. I have 2 moving through Tertiary Education and although they are being force fed they laugh it off. An incident surprised me a couple of weeks ago where a student was heard criticising the raced based policy around scholarships. The Institution has issued a directive that students are bound to uphold the principle of Equity and there will be consequences for the students who criticised the policy. Frightening stuff if you believe in free speech.
Feel free to name the institution. You have the right to speak freely.
“There is something profoundly wrong with the country”.
Wakey, wakey Mike. The country went off the tracks of equality needs based and onto the tracks of apartheid in 1975, with the blessing of our successive governments.
Secret missives and directives on dividing us by race have been circulating throughout the state apparatus ever since.
We needed it because the woke mind virus has infected all institutes. Access to medical services, access to local government through appointments and apartheid, AUT overseas conferences access, access to health training............................................................
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