In an extraordinary act of tone deafness they’ve decided if you are brown, or presumably merely identify as Māori or a person of the Pacific, you can get a discount price for a music festival on January 26th called Waves.
The cheapest tickets, available to those of all skin colours or racial ethnicity, are the buy early variety. They’re $15. Missing that deadline means you pay $20 if you’re brown – or say you are – and $30 if you’re a bulk standard white person.
So a millionaire brown person like say, oh John Tamihere, or his high earning Te Tai Tonga MP Takuta Ferris, gets a cheaper price than an unemployed white person.
That’s really fair isn’t it?
It’s also highly patronizing on the part of this Brown Town outfit. The reason for the price difference between brown and white people is because of “systematic inequalities that have historically impacted Māori and Pacific communities.”
What Brown Town seem to be saying is that all brown people are poor and need a cheaper ticket. What tosh. There are hundreds of thousands of affluent brown people who don’t need a cheaper ticket just because of their skin colour or who their ancestors were. Just like there are hundreds of thousands of white people who are poor and could do with a bit of a subsidy to an event like this.
When Brown Town trot out the excuse about how tiered pricing is common at many events for students and pensioners and other economic groups, they’re ignoring the basic premise.
To discriminate against a group of people on the basis of their skin colour or ethnicity is illegal in this country. It is now in the statute books – the Human Rights Act – but it has always been the morally correct way for people to behave.
Brown Town have now changed the wording in their marketing material. The cheap tickets are still for those who buy early. But the reality is despite some fancy word changes the pricing structure still discriminates. The ticket for “Alofa” is $20 and for “Ally” is $30. That translates to whitey having to cough up $10 more than brownie.
WE DON’T DO THAT IN NEW ZEALAND.
The reaction of government agencies supposedly overseeing this fiasco has been pathetic.
The Human Rights Commission says its received complaints but can’t tell us what they are because of the Privacy Act.
Sigh.
Then a spokesperson says this: “The commission also can’t make findings or decide if the law has been breached.”
Well find someone who can – like the police.
And just to prove how stupid the HRC is we had this doozy.
“It’s our understanding that the ticketing structure to this event was amended this morning.”
No it wasn’t. The ticketing structure is exactly the same. Only the fancy ways to describe brown and white people has been changed.
Creative New Zealand’s Dinah Vincent doesn’t want to face reality either.
“Many events have tiered ticket pricing, named in ways that reflect the organisation, the event and the target audience.”
Except Dinah dear, we don’t discriminate against people because of race, ethnicity or skin colour. That’s ILLEGAL.
Neither has the new Race Relations Commissioner made an auspicious start.
“While recognising the event organisers were well-intentioned in aiming to increase accessibility for their communities, there are alternative, non-discriminatory avenues which could also achieve the same outcome without the risk of perpetuating negative stereotypes about particular communities.”
Melissa Derby should stop being an academic and learn to speak English.
Something like: “this ticket pricing discriminates against a group of people based on their race. That’s not allowed and the ticket price categories must change.”
The event has already had to shift from its original venue because the owners of that place, Muy Muy, didn’t want anything to do with such blatant discrimination.
Currently Waves is on at a venue TBA. But the illegal and racist ticket pricing still continues.
If you want racial disharmony in this country separatist policies like this are just the ticket – unless you get the early bird special.
Peter Williams was a writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines. Peter blogs regularly on Peter’s Substack - where this article was sourced.
So a millionaire brown person like say, oh John Tamihere, or his high earning Te Tai Tonga MP Takuta Ferris, gets a cheaper price than an unemployed white person.
That’s really fair isn’t it?
It’s also highly patronizing on the part of this Brown Town outfit. The reason for the price difference between brown and white people is because of “systematic inequalities that have historically impacted Māori and Pacific communities.”
What Brown Town seem to be saying is that all brown people are poor and need a cheaper ticket. What tosh. There are hundreds of thousands of affluent brown people who don’t need a cheaper ticket just because of their skin colour or who their ancestors were. Just like there are hundreds of thousands of white people who are poor and could do with a bit of a subsidy to an event like this.
When Brown Town trot out the excuse about how tiered pricing is common at many events for students and pensioners and other economic groups, they’re ignoring the basic premise.
To discriminate against a group of people on the basis of their skin colour or ethnicity is illegal in this country. It is now in the statute books – the Human Rights Act – but it has always been the morally correct way for people to behave.
Brown Town have now changed the wording in their marketing material. The cheap tickets are still for those who buy early. But the reality is despite some fancy word changes the pricing structure still discriminates. The ticket for “Alofa” is $20 and for “Ally” is $30. That translates to whitey having to cough up $10 more than brownie.
WE DON’T DO THAT IN NEW ZEALAND.
The reaction of government agencies supposedly overseeing this fiasco has been pathetic.
The Human Rights Commission says its received complaints but can’t tell us what they are because of the Privacy Act.
Sigh.
Then a spokesperson says this: “The commission also can’t make findings or decide if the law has been breached.”
Well find someone who can – like the police.
And just to prove how stupid the HRC is we had this doozy.
“It’s our understanding that the ticketing structure to this event was amended this morning.”
No it wasn’t. The ticketing structure is exactly the same. Only the fancy ways to describe brown and white people has been changed.
Creative New Zealand’s Dinah Vincent doesn’t want to face reality either.
“Many events have tiered ticket pricing, named in ways that reflect the organisation, the event and the target audience.”
Except Dinah dear, we don’t discriminate against people because of race, ethnicity or skin colour. That’s ILLEGAL.
Neither has the new Race Relations Commissioner made an auspicious start.
“While recognising the event organisers were well-intentioned in aiming to increase accessibility for their communities, there are alternative, non-discriminatory avenues which could also achieve the same outcome without the risk of perpetuating negative stereotypes about particular communities.”
Melissa Derby should stop being an academic and learn to speak English.
Something like: “this ticket pricing discriminates against a group of people based on their race. That’s not allowed and the ticket price categories must change.”
The event has already had to shift from its original venue because the owners of that place, Muy Muy, didn’t want anything to do with such blatant discrimination.
Currently Waves is on at a venue TBA. But the illegal and racist ticket pricing still continues.
If you want racial disharmony in this country separatist policies like this are just the ticket – unless you get the early bird special.
Peter Williams was a writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines. Peter blogs regularly on Peter’s Substack - where this article was sourced.
6 comments:
And what would the headlines be screaming if for instance, NZSO concerts were advertised as more expensive for brown people ?
SUPREME COURT. TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1847. IMPORTANT CASE. WAIVER OF THE CROWN'S RIGHT OF PREEMPTION—TREATY OF WAITANGI.
During this case, the plaintive argued that, “The English version of the Treaty of Waitangi was not correctly translated, or did not agree with the native version”.
The Attorney General (representing the defendant) without expressing any opinion as to the character of the English version of the treaty, would contend himself with replying that it having been agreed to upon the record that, “On the argument on the demurrer the Treaty of Waitangi as translated in papers relative to New Zealand, printed by order of the House of Commons, 1st May, 1841, shall be taken to be the true version of the said treaty”.
This false, fake, fraudulent Freeman’s English version of the treaty has been used to introduce apartheid legislation into New Zealand, spawned $Billion Iwi corporations, the 2040 he puapua blueprint to create a retribalized third world state controlled by a rentier elite, and the “brown town” generation.
While this “Freeman fraud” dictates race relations in New Zealand (political divide and rule trick) the thermostat will continue to be turned up.
Extremely disappointing reaction from Melissa Derby of our so-called Human Rights Commission. Alofa vs Ally is no improvement on Browntown’s first attempt at blatant race-based discrimination.
just googled who they are and what they do and can't imagine many non Maori/Pacifica people will want to attend anyway.
How many times does it have to be said to how many people?
If you can flip it from one colour to another and it sounds racist, it is racist.
Browntown are clearly active racists and the HRC/Police need to see this is an intentional brech of the law and act upon it otherwise this type of cancer in these type of humans only gather speed.
It's clearly black and white that Brown Town have no idea what racism means.
These ethnic regressive progressives are a glimpse of life under co-governance, or worse, life under full part-Maori control.
Anyone with a smidgen of decency and fairness take note.
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