On The Platform, Sean responds to a Stuff article authored by Joel Maxwell
Sean Plunket is the founder of The Platform and has worked for several New Zealand broadcast media companies and stations in New Zealand. This article was originally published by ThePlatform.kiwi and is published here with kind permission.
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The best way to deal with Stuff as well as TVNZ "news" and RNZ is just to avoid them so their ratings drop and so we have a less stressful day. At least on this occasion the article was described as an opinion. Normally their opinions are presented as being news.
But I have to agree with Mr Maxwell that there are some pakeha who treat history as "garbage". One only needs to look at the school history curriculum, or read the likes of Vincent O'Malley, Claudia Orange, James Bellich (who reckons that Maori invented trench warfare), Te Papa and the pakeha members of the Waitangi Tribunal. But such rubbish quickly turns to gold when it comes to Treaty grievances.
Good thay you push back Sean.
Maxwell is, if I remember correctly a later to come to it, born again maori man......this may explain (like all born agains) why his utter contempt and arrogance is held like a beacon.
Born again non-smokers, born again christians and the like show the same sort of signs.
They have rediscovered something lost and they feel the need to impress their 'wisdom' upon you to persuade you that they are the path to the light.
They are in fact some of (if not the most) annoying folk you could ever have the displeasure to meet as they spout forth their version of reality that is as narcissistic as it is arrogantly out of touch with reality.
Bravo Sean. Unbelievable arrogance. NZ- so isolated - should be a world-oriented country with a great indigenous heritage . Instead, the only thing that matters is Maori control. Tragic.
I do find the maori reverence for the dead surprising. Larger numbers of offspring and a keenness to party instead of work part explains the huge funeral turn outs. A recent interlude on RNZ in which a maori woman recalled her lifetime attendance at a myriad funerals was very revealing. Fist fights at the graveside. I wonder what the funerals of the violent parents of neglected truant ram raiders will be like. Non maori cannot celebrate their history because trace maori have artfully contrived to have it defined as unfavourable to maori. Maori are not proficient at recalling their hideous musket Wars history. If it had not been for history minded pakeha much would never have been reliably recorded and we would be subject to even more contrived selective recollection than we are.
Joel sounds like a racist, ignorant & self-indulged dick, not just towards those who do not identify as Maori, but against his own ancestors. In fact, the song by a teenage band called ‘The Linda Lindas’ springs to mind.
As others have said, the best way to shut down idiots like Stuff & their opinion writers (which is hardly journalism as opinions are like butt holes - we all have one!) is to ignore them like the oxygen thieves that they are.
I gave up reading anything Maxwell wrote years ago; he is a boring, racist, semi-journalistic hack. I also would add Sean's description of him here too; spot on Mr Plunket. Also, if anyone is treating non-maori history as garbage and denigrating its gifts to mankind, it is the activist part-maoris. They place themselves on a crumbling pedestal and pretend they are humanity's gift to moral rectitude, when in fact their own history demonstrates otherwise, but of course they would never acknowledge any shortcomings.
Joel Maxwells' articles have always shown up his racist arrogant views, but Stuff allows him to vent his racism. If a non Maori wrote articles like his about Maori, there would be hell to pay. But he can get away with it!
Maxwell used to have a reasonably regular column in the old DomPost. It's been pleasant to see the back of him. But, alas, like stepping accidentally on dog excrement, it's back with a vengeance. It seems I'm amongst many who equally find him particularly odorous.
My original comment a couple of days ago was not published; not sure why, but I wish to add to the condemnation of Maxwell as a racist and misinformation-pushing hack. I once actually had a go at then Dominion Post editor (Eric Janssen) about Maxwell and was told he was a great guy, so the rot started way back then. Anyone trying to place an alternative view in the MSM or criticise their darlings gets short shrift. Finally, we non part-maori do not treat our past or culture like garbage; it is the likes of Maxwell who describe it as such through constant denigration.
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