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Maori Activists / Racists Create Racism Watchdog Website

Steven Mark Gaskell writes > Oh spare me, just what New Zealand needed another website, this time courtesy of the Iwi Chairs Forum, to inform us all that the real problem in New Zealand isn't crime, cost of living, or failing infrastructure, but hurt feelings.

Enter “PAPARA” a name that sounds suspiciously like a noise a toddler makes, now moonlighting as a self-appointed racism watchdog. Because obviously, what the country has been crying out for is more publicly funded moral scolding, dressed up in cultural jargon and co-governance buzzwords.

And look who’s been wheeled out to front it: Dame Naida Glavish. You might remember her as the telephone operator who insisted on saying “kia ora” in the 1980s a stand that’s now being treated like she single-handedly ended apartheid.

Since then, she's made a career out of being offended on behalf of others, usually from a taxpayer-funded platform. And now she's helping to oversee this digital shrine to grievance, alongside a cast of academic and activist lifers who think a firm handshake is a microaggression.

Let’s be crystal clear: this "People’s Action Plan" isn’t about fighting racism — it’s about rebranding political disagreement as hate speech.

Disagree with a race-based health system? You're racist. Question Three Waters? Racist. Prefer merit-based selection over ethnicity-based funding? You guessed it - racist.

It’s not a plan against racism, it’s a plan against dissent, using the shield of cultural sensitivity to bulldoze anyone who doesn’t buy into the gospel of identity politics.

Source: Facebook

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Steven Mark Gaskell writes “New Zealand’s Covid Plan: Cough Up If You’re Caucasian”

Well, isn’t this just the progressive utopia we were promised? In New Zealand's new COVID response playbook, whether you get free antiviral treatment now depends less on your health and more on your heritage. If you're Māori or Pasifika and over 50, congratulations your genes come with pharmacy privileges. But if you're a 64-year old Pākehā with chronic illness? Better hope you’ve got a spare two grand or a really good immune system. Equality of outcome has arrived unless you're the wrong demographic.

This is what happens when public health is filtered through an ideological colander.

Apparently, the virus is culturally aware and only hits harder based on historical injustice.

The bureaucrats behind this policy must believe viruses carry a Treaty clause. Sure, underlying health conditions matter but only if you tick the right ethnicity box first.

One nation, two treatment plans. The Ministry of Health might want to rebrand as the Ministry of Historical Redress and Pharmacology.

Of course, it’s all dressed up in the usual soothing buzzwords “equity,” “vulnerability,” “disproportionate impact.” But when two people with the same symptoms and risk profile get wildly different access to care based on skin colour or ancestry, we’re not talking public health anymore we’re talking apartheid with paperwork. Welcome to the colourcoded compassion of 2025.

Source: Facebook