Auckland
University’s introduction of a mandatory paper in Māori, has certainly caught
the attention of a tranche of New Zealander’s who appeared to have previously
tolerated persistent Māori claims for more and more of the Land of the Long
Black Cloud.
Such an intrusion impacts on the core values and beliefs of us all.
In a previous
article I penned:
“As
long as John Key keeps his nose out of National Party
Conferences and ACT and NZ First maintain their pre-elections pledges, civil
war in New Zealand, is unlikely in my view – irrespective of whatever a
minority of Māori claim.” (1)
Notwithstanding
this optimistic outlook, one ignores at one’s peril, the political aspirations
of the cabal of radical Māori pseudo leaders who threaten civil war to grab
power by a form of revolution, imposing Māori lore as the fundamental pillar of
New Zealand’s constitution – yet to be designed.
Revolutionaries
are invariably political Utopians and as such, do not recognise the natural
limitations of human tolerance, as they strive for goals which cannot be
obtained. To achieve the goals of
revolutionaries, a nation must pay a heavy price.
Revolution
means destruction of values, material security, and lives.
As Lenin
insisted during the October Revolutions February and October 1917, which
overturned the Tsar’s monarchy, in Russia:
“How
can you make revolution without firing squads?
If we can’t shoot saboteurs, what kind of evolution is this?” (2)
From Mexico
1911, Turkey 1919, Yugoslavia 1941, China both in 1911 and 1946-49, Egypt 1952,
Iraq 1958, Cuba 1959, to Iran 1979 (Africa and South America excluded), these
nations witnessed the overturning autocratic regimes for various
interpretations of Marxism or rule by bureaucracy and police.
Ionically,
these quasi-Marxist regimes delivered not power to the people, but merely
replaced one autocratic regime with another.
These
examples also provide hard evidence that imposition of a new reign of political
power via revolution, brought with it, changes which to this day, delivers
suffering and in turn sustains latent if not open, hatred and quests for vengeance.
Essentially,
what some Māori now seek to impose upon New Zealand, is another version of Marxist
socialism – Tribal hierarchies – i.e. political paradigms midst which any
evidence of “trickle down” benefits to the disciples who languish in State
Housing and unemployed, is hard to find.
From the
empires of Ngāi Tahu in the south to Tainui in the north, commercial and
property assets exceeding a billion dollars at least, seem to be firmly under
the control of an elite few – while the bloke sweeping, the streets in
Ngāruawāhia and the woman packing shelves in Invercargill – just keeps on
sweeping and continues stacking.
Meanwhile,
also latent but lurking, will be “others” who represent the majority of New
Zealand, taken from White, Asian, Indian and also Polynesian, resentful and
seeking restoration of their right for equality before the LAW –and not
subservience to Māori Lore.
Ross
Meurant BA
MPP Former Police
Inspector. Former Member of Parliament. Former Diplomatic Representative.
Current partner www.gena.co.nz
(2) Montefiore, Simon Sebag; Young Stalin, Phoenix, 2007.
26 comments:
The battle we the people face today, which has its beginnings with the 1975 TOW Act is, New Zealand under one flag and one law for all, verses apartheid Aotearoa.
The irony here is that the 'trickle down' model of socioeconomic development is usually pooh-poohed by the left.
No risk.With the armed forces and Poice saturated by trace maori, maori in control of RNZ, kapahaka trained groups to threaten the population, and the gangs availablale, the revoltion will be acheived by simple coup.
Not sure where to start with this, but am pretty sure that the introduction of a course at Auckland University isn't going be a catalyst for civil war. Unless millions spend most of their time online becoming increasingly worked up. It's not a 'paper in Maori', but a paper with some content relating to Maori history and culture. And even in a three-year degree, it occupies only 1/24 of the qualification
Joanne W @ 2:21
It is my understanding that the course is COMPULSORY for first year students. Albeit a short indocrination methinks.
Hazel @ 3pm
You forget how easy a coup by way of violence would be if the general population was disarmed. There are more "gang members" than armed forces in NZ, and what we do have is made up of at least 50% Maori.
Think on it.
Joanne W - can't you understand that imposing a mandatory racist paper is absolutely indoctrination ?
It is not 1/24 of a qualification - there is not another University in the world that compels a student to complete a racist paper before they receive their doctorate in maths, physics, etc.
Did you ever read anything about the Third Reich, and realize that your thinking aligns with Nazi indoctrination ?
Maybe the academics should reread "Animal Farm"!
They have never read it and are hence illiterate.
It's compulsory, and tailored to the particular faculty the student is enrolled in. It's an introduction to various aspects of being a new student, including critical thinking. It's not primarily about the Treaty or Maori-related matters.
I'm a retired English lit academic, so of course I've read it.
Geez, don't give me the Nazis. Thousands of people who disagree with other on the internet trot out the Nazis. It's just boring and self-dramatising.
That's right, Joanne. 'Nazi' appears to have become a derogatory term for anyone who is of an opposite political persuasion from the speaker.
Many (most?) people who bandy the term around these days probably don't even know what it stands for, which is 'national socialism'. This in turn is a model of political and economic organisation which treats capitalism as the goose that lays the golden egg and uses the proceeds thereof to finance health care, education and all those things that marxist-based socialism promises but can't deliver adequately because marxism strangles the golden goose so they can't really afford it.
It was a highly successful paradigm, and was seen as a threat to the established global economic order on the one hand and the fantasyland that the utopian marxists were aiming for on the other, which is why these two highly unlikely bedfellows teamed up against national socialism and destroyed it before plunging the world into the Cold War and 'hot war' concomitants such as the Korean and Vietnam wars.
One of the factors behind the war in Ukraine was that many people in the eastern region of Ukraine opposed being forced to speak Ukrainian and not Russian. Auckland university sets this country on a course of deep resentment
Any 'course of deep resentment' depends on people really believing that a university paper that constitutes at most a 24th of a degree, and doesn't actually force anyone to speak Te Reo on the course - let alone outside it - is a threat to the future of the country. But hey, if people are naive enough to believe that, then the chance of rational discussion of race relations diminishes.
With respect Joanne, perhaps you might mention to Willie and Tuku and others in their cabal, your concern about "rational discussion".
An unwillingness for rational discussion is evident among some Maori too. But I wasn't dealing with that here - more the tendency among some pakeha to exaggerate the threat
Joanne, go and read "Travellers in the Third Reich" by Julia Boyd and draw the very distinct parallels between Germany in the 1930s and NZ in the late 2010s.
We, because of people like you are becoming increasingly similar to the dictatorial Nazis.
Stop pretending that Nazi Germany didn't exist - you do those NZers who fell defending democracy a huge amount of disrespect.
A Marxist inspired Civil War is already happening in New Zealand, without firing a shot, with the education system busily indoctrinating and brainwashing our young people about the Maori world view as the only one with any merit. Our Pakeha heritage is deliberately vilified as part of a revisionist history agenda which educators, like myself, are expected to teach. There is now constant reference to de-colonisation being promoted in all areas of society particularly in our everyday language use such as only using Maori instead of English words and actively encouraged by the media. Our universities are no longer respected, academic institutions which encourage critical thinking and open debate about thorny issues rather they have become captured corridors of indoctrination. Unfortunately, there are still many unaware members of the public who don't realise that 'de-colonisation' actually means shifting political power to Maori tribal control and away from our constitutional democracy with far reaching implications for the country's political future. There won't be any so-called TOW 'partnership' under the tribal model. The only way will be the Maori way. This move to Maori self-determination and control, through the UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights, was officially endorsed by Dr Pita Sharples, as Minister of Maori Affairs in the Key government, in April 2010. There are certainly important lessons to be learnt from reading George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' and his dystopian novel '1984'
Of course I don't believe Nazi Germany didn't exist, and I've read quite a lot about it. Nor will I accept that I'm becoming like a Nazi. I could be offended, but this kind of stuff is just slag-off 101 on the internet. Were it possible to drando a count of people who entered discussion on controversial topics, say, over a day on the NZ internet, I'd guess a good quarter of them would be compared to Nazis. The move often comes with a gesture to those to died-for-democracy. It's both lazy and cliched. Why would I read a book because some random person online thinks I'm like a Nazi. Grow up!
Joanna, I'm very grown up and mature. I can see people like you are ignoring reality and that under the previous government NZ created policies that emulated Germany in the 1930s.
Read some history of that era .
Forced indoctrination at any level in NZ is evil.
My experience is that people who oppose the last government - or deal with any views that contest their own - often just evoke Nazi Germany. It's an internet cliche and must have lost its force by now, but people keep bringing it up. Nor do I accept that one course, tailored to each faculty's students, represents 'forced indoctrination', especially as much of it is not about the Treaty or Maori-related issues. It could only be construed as 'forced indoctrination' if that's what students experience in actually taking it. There's a lot I don't like about current trends at UA, and I don't think investing resources in this course that has to be taken in first year by everyone, is a good move in a time of financial austerity. The logistics will also be a nightmare. But I had most of my academic career at UA, and I know what they do and don't do. Emulating Nazism is not in the mix.
It is very obvious that Joanna is an academic at Auckland University as she has clearly become obsessed with the Maori world.
Such arrogance to insist that anybody has to do anything just because of she thinks they should.
Every future degree from Auckland will be internationally down graded.
Aww, as a retired academic who's just said she doesn't support the introduction of the course next year, I find it pretty exciting to be thought of as inaugurating the NZ Third Reich AND the downgrading of UA's international reputation....
What so many of the woke academics don’t understand is that employers don’t want to employ people who have “qualifications” where 1/24th is wasted on rubbish. Business operates in a highly competitive global world – it is senseless for students to be spending 1/24th of their time on woke useless rubbish. I, for one, do not even contemplate employing recent NZ graduates anymore. Perhaps the woke academics do understand this, however their pursuit of a new Marxist world order takes precedence over educating for usefulness in the real world. If an employee of mine wasted 1/24th of their time, I would fire them.
I read a Mathematics book the other day – because I wanted to increase my knowledge of advanced pure Maths. The Maths content was interesting but the book fell down because the author was coming from the perspective that Maths is a white male colonialist construct. For heaven’s sake! Every single maths example in the book pushed a female/non-binary/black/indigenous agenda. I learned a little bit of Maths from the book, but I learned a great deal why universities are in such a mess right now, and many students are graduating unemployable.
I was lucky to earn my three degrees during a time when universities were very different. My advice to young people today is don’t go to university, especially the most woke ones such as UA. Rather, start your own business from scratch – you will learn far more about what counts in life and what is required to succeed.
Am I to believe that when you employed people in the past who'd been to uni, you scrutinised the content of every paper they studied, interrogated them about that, and rejected anyone whose education had had whiff of Maori content or anything that hinted at Marxism.? ... The reaction to this new paper that hasn't even been taught yet has been exaggerated. And of course no-one who'll have taken it will be looking for work as a graduate for some years yet. Chill, guys, chill!
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