Michael Laws has accused leading Māori academics of “almost traitorous” behaviour after they told the UN that New Zealand is a racist, backwards regime guilty of cultural genocide.
Laws called the claims “a woeful and appalling misrepresentation of equality and democracy.”
“There is no rights being stripped from Māori… one might well argue that Māori actually have more rights than non-Māori in this country,” he added.
Auckland law professor Claire Charters called the coalition’s agenda “the most regressive policies I have ever seen” and urged the UN to send a special rapporteur and impose the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on New Zealand.
“This is from Professor Claire Charters… funded agreeably by the New Zealand taxpayer… now selling us down the river,” said Laws.
Janelle Dymus-Kurei also criticised the government at the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, accusing it of racial discrimination and dehumanising Māori patients by downplaying cultural training in clinical care.
He slammed the irony of publicly funded activists denouncing the very system that elevated them: “If this is the nature of Māori activism… to run this country down in international fora and seek the intervention of outside powers… then we’re in a pretty [bad] state.”
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7 comments:
Is the state/crown corporation a (a) foreign agent or (b) a domestic terrorist?
When university law depts become centres of subversion, it's time to take action by dismissing those members who bring the country into disrepute on the basis of trumped-up charges fuelled by revolutionary zeal - not to mention subverting the upcoming generation of lawyers.
Maori are NOT indigenous to NZ.
Full stop - facts are facts.
Charters is more white than anything else she may claim.....at what point does she start to be a person rather than an identity?
Reinstate sedition as a crime.
Surely it undermines the whole fabric of our society if a prominent person advocates for a separate health system, a separate legal system, and a separate parliamentary system based solely on race? The person in question makes no mention, on the world stage, that the Treaty of Waitangi made all citizens of New Zealand equal. I know that she is talking about Aotearoa.... but even so.
Charters "most regressive policy" she has ever seen must have been talking about the contemplated introduction of tikanga into Parliament? If that isn't regressive stone age thinking, what is?
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