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Showing posts with label Maori disadvantage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maori disadvantage. Show all posts

Monday, September 25, 2023

Peter Hemmingson: Maori Socio-Economic Disadvantage


The propaganda claim to a collective [part-] Maori socio-economic disadvantage has become one of NZ's most enduring tropes.

Adolf Hitler’s “big lie” technique: repeat a lie loudly and often enough and it becomes the ‘truth.’

As I will demonstrate below, aggregates are politically useful but factually vacuous.

Thursday, September 8, 2022

John Porter: 2% Of New Zealanders Are Really Maori


Are Maori really that disadvantaged in New Zealand?

You don’t have to search very hard to find plenty of articles on the net that will quite plainly quote stats saying Maori are very disadvantaged. Here is one I found on the E-Tangata site: