John Porter: Te Ao Maori Is Not How NZ Should Be Governed

Maori oral history narrates how Maori voyaged to Antarctica as early as the 7th century.

Today I’m having a bit of a rant about how Maori researchers believe that their ancestors may have been the first to discover the Earth’s southernmost continent, Antarctica, and how our MSM [mainstream media] fell for the story hook, line, and sinker.

Thus MSM proved themselves to be nothing but propaganda peddlers for the Government. Not a word of criticism did the MSM utter and nor did they attempt to seek out scientist-critics of this unbelievable myth.

Because there were actually credible declaimers and they were Maori!

Michael Bassett: Myth-making and Politics

We are all familiar with Donald Trump’s recent mythmaking. He “won” the election, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. Votes were either “stolen” from him, or, alternatively, the Democratic opposition shuffled in bags full of “illegal” ballots to swamp his stellar achievement. Trump’s efforts to create a myth worked with many Republicans.

We’ve had a few political myths in New Zealand too. When I knew less than I do now, I believed some of them myself. One of them is that New Zealand was always an “egalitarian” society where there were equal opportunities for all. Tell that to your grandparents who lived through the Great Depression!