Sean Plunket talks to ACT MP Laura Trask on The Platform about racist themes in children’s book of the year winner
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This is very much in the same vein as that vile, racist, violent so-called poem which ranted on about driving around in SUV's and sticking knives into white men.
I believe that Creative NZ also funded a Samoan woman's racist and violence advocating "poem"/rant about Captain Cook in which she stated that she and her woke allies would kill all of Cook's descendants. This organization needs to be purged of its wokeness.
"This isn't a kids' book. This is propaganda". Most kids books in NZ these days are propaganda. Look at the cartoon history books from the Ministry of Education showing Maori living in harmony with each other and the environment until the nasty pakeha turned up.
"I feel sorry for my mother because she is pakeha". Why not given NZ is still an apartheid state?
A picture book is a book in which the pictures are as important as the text or only consist of pictures which when put together tell the story. The are also designed so that the pictures help children understand that words convey meaning by connecting the pictures in the book with the words on the page.
This book disqualifies itself because the description of the title is that it 'explore contemporary issues, critical thinking and Maori–Pakeha relations, this book has a wide age readership for both school and adult audiences.'
Whoever awarded this title its accolade needs to go back to which ever hole they crawled out from.
The book sounds very apt - a joyless read in an increasingly joyless country.
Is this the domain of Goldsmith as Minister of the Arts? What action will he take - based on citizen complaints of course?
Imagine reversing all aspects of the book so that everything maori was replaced with non-maori tropes and the advantages of being non-maori were trumpeted, and being maori shown as an embarrassment; what a hoo-ha that would raise.
I can't understand how these racist departments exist. If I were to write a similar book about killing certain ethnic groups I'm willing to bet I would be in a lot of trouble.
I'm also sure my book would not be published and therefore I certainly would win a prize and a lot of money for it like she did.
Then she claimed it's OK as it's how she felt or some bs like that.
We have to focus on the racists and those govt depts that actually promote and enable division. Time for more funding and employment cuts I feel. I do not authorize my tax collected dollars to fund this bs.
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