Anglo Saxon: New Zealand v Karl Marx

In this episode Anglo Saxon explains the everyday things we see from Marxism and evidence of the long march through our institutions.


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Pee Kay: Decolonisation

Recently, CXY posted an excellent article, The Case For Colonisation.

“Therefore, acknowledging Māori as historical colonisers becomes politically inconvenient. The narrative must be protected, even at the expense of historical truth.”

I want to have a look at the other side of the coin – Decolonisation.

Insights From Social Media: Politicising Santa - When Even Myth Must Kneel

Colinxy writes > This essay follows my earlier piece, The Marxist Imperative: Politicise Everything, where I argued that the modern ideological project has no natural boundaries. It expands, metastasises, and colonises every available cultural space. Nothing is allowed to remain neutral, shared, or simply fun. Everything must be interrogated, problematised, and, ultimately, politicised.

Right on schedule, Brighton and Hove Museums have stepped forward to demonstrate the principle in action. In a blog post, the museum declared that Father Christmas is “too white,” “too patriarchal,” and in urgent need of “decolonisation”. His famous naughty‑and‑nice list, we are told, is a “Western binary” that reinforces “cultural superiority” and “colonial assumptions”[i]. Santa, apparently, is not merely a jolly gift-giver but an emissary of empire.

Gary Judd KC: Politicised lawyers

Who become politicised judges

David McGrogan says

I am a legal scholar and writer.

I was born and raised on Merseyside, and lived for the better part of a decade in Kanagawa Prefecture, in Japan, where I was a legal translator. I have a PhD in Law from the University of Liverpool, and I am currently Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria Law School.

Insights From Social Media

Steven Mark Gaskell writes > Decolonisation: Because Who Needs Democracy When You Can Have Tribal Backtracking?

So, you’ve heard about this new “trendy” political movement decolonisation. Apparently, our forebears messed everything up by, you know, building a modern society based on individual rights, rule of law, and brace yourself equality under the ballot box. Now, instead of simply moving on from history like mature adults, we’re supposed to rewind the clock to some romanticised era where everyone was relegated to their little tribal fiefdoms. Good luck finding a civics textbook in that dystopia.

Professor Elizabeth Rata: A Knowledge Rich Curriculum for New Zealand

The 2007 New Zealand Curriculum allows teachers and schools to decide what to teach. In this localised curriculum there is no prescribed content, no nationwide standardisation nor effective quality control. The result is increased inequality. Students in schools committed to high quality academic subjects continue to achieve. Students in schools that offer little more than socio-cultural beliefs and practices are denied the education needed for full inclusion in modern society.

John Robertson: Decolonization - The New Face of Racial Supremacy

Alright, let’s stop pretending like we don’t know what this is. "Decolonization"? Ha. It's nothing but a glossy rebranding of a racial supremacy racket designed to make sure one group gets to rule the roost while the rest of us—yes, all of us—are stuck picking up the tab for their endless grievances. This isn’t about justice. This isn’t about healing. This is the new power grab, a shiny new con job wrapped in left-wing virtue signaling. Welcome to the greatest Ponzi scheme in history.

Joe Baron: Labour’s New National Curriculum Will Mean Even More Children are Taught to Hate Our Country

Children are already being brainwashed in many of Britain’s schools. They are taught to despise their country and hold it responsible for every global injustice and societal ill in existence. Labour’s changes to the national curriculum will simply add rocket fuel to this already widespread development.

Centrist: “Do you believe New Zealand needs to be decolonised?”.....

“Do you believe New Zealand needs to be decolonised?” Broadcaster presses Solicitor-General on views

Una Jagose, the country’s Solicitor-General, has issued revised prosecution guidelines after the original October 2024 guidelines suggested prosecutors consider Māori ethnicity when deciding on charges.

The backlash led to widespread accusations of endorsing racial bias. The revised guidelines focus on “individualised factors” like poverty, abuse, and lack of education. However, they still encourage prosecutors to understand tikanga Māori and promote te reo Māori.

John Raine: Why Engineering Cannot be Decolonised

Concordia University is Decolonising

Early 2024, Lawrence Krauss reported [1] that Concordia University in Canada is in the process of decolonising and indigenising its curricula, including Engineering. He noted that this will put Concordia on the Map, but not in a positive way.

David Lillis: Imagining Decolonisation

Expressing our Opinions

On 31 July Newsroom released an opinion piece from Dr. Amanda Thomas of Victoria University of Wellington, entitled Beyond Pākehā paralysis (Thomas, 2024). She tells us that as the fires of white fear are stoked daily, it’s time for Pākehā to gather courage and start work on decolonization. Dr. Thomas states that just as there is a set of people who are angry and fearful of Te Tiriti and Māori, there are many more who understand the importance of Te Tiriti and the promise that it holds for a country based on justice.

Professor Jerry Coyne: Unsettling the settler colonial university...

Unsettling the settler colonial university - a “feminist decolonization” of higher education in New Zealand

This link was sent to me by a despondent (and of course anonymous) New Zealander with the comment, “This is now unstoppable in NZ.” It’s from the Times Higher Education site, and the authors are Mahdis Azarmandi and Sara Tolbert, both on the Faculty of Education of New Zealand’s University of Canterbury.

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Gary Judd KC: Tikanga Regulations advance a political agenda

In doing so they confer moral legitimacy on the illegitimate

The New Zealand Council of Legal Education has promulgated regulations making tikanga Māori a compulsory subject for law students and requiring tikanga to be infused into all the other compulsory subjects (contracts, tort, crimes, etc.) I made a complaint to Parliament’s Regulation Review Committee. I have asked that a resolution be moved that the House of Representatives disallow the regulations. The Committee is considering my complaint. It asked for submissions from the NZCLE and the New Zealand Law Society. On 3 June, I lodged a supplementary submission to the Committee. This is what it said.

Mike Butler: The British Empire – a force for good

The British Empire – a force for good, a new book, is a refreshing antidote to the current zeal for decolonisation, which encourages us to reimagine history as “a morality play in which white men are the baddies”.

Author John McLean, a writer and publisher, who has a MA in history and a Bachelor of Law from Victoria University in Wellington, and did Bar finals at Grays Inn in London, tells the stories of Britain’s 101 colonies established over 400 years, capturing the boldness and zeal of the pioneers who built the empire.

The story of the British Empire starts during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Dr Sheree Trotter: Defrocking Decolonisation’s Priesthood

Shortly after 7 October, a friend phoned for help in understanding her daughter’s social media messages. “What’s decolonisation?”, she asked. Like many Kiwis, my friend was mystified by the younger generation’s sudden and religious passion for a conflict on the other side of the world. What appeared to be “a spontaneous eruption of moral outrage”, turned out to be “a highly orchestrated, well-funded propaganda campaign”, one that had been decades in the making. Recently published research has revealed the degree to which funding connected to Hamas has poured into USA university campuses, fueling antisemitism and contributing to the angry and often violent protests.

Roger Partridge: How to rein in an activist Supreme Court

My earlier column this month, New Zealand’s highest court could be facing a turning point, prompted a flood of feedback from business readers and lawyers alike. A common query was what Parliament can do to restrain an overreaching judiciary. This week I discuss two steps Parliament should not hesitate to take.

But first a quick recap.

Peter Schwerdtfeger, John Raine and David Lillis: Is the Decolonisation and Indigenisation Movement Dividing our Country?

Decolonisation and the Undermining of Sound Education

It is difficult not to be aware of cultural reshaping in New Zealand society. Moves have also been made by New Zealand’s Ministry of Education to politicise our schools’ education curriculum through casting it within a Treaty of Waitangi framework, and presenting mathematics and the sciences from a postmodern, relativist and decolonisation perspective which appears hostile to the core areas of student learning. Fortunately, the curriculum is now being further reviewed and developed but both this, and some university programmes, remain vulnerable to being used as a vehicle of cultural indoctrination. Here, we examine decolonisation, the need for open and constructive academic debate, and the imperative to protect democracy in New Zealand.

Elizabeth Rata: In Defence of the Liberal University and against Indigenisation

The suppression of individual thought in our universities spills over into society, threatening free speech everywhere.

Indigenising New Zealand's universities is well underway, presumably with the agreement of University Councils and despite the absence of public discussion. Indigenising, under the broader umbrella of decolonisation, involves incorporating the post-1975 principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, inserting the traditional beliefs and practices of matauranga Māori into all areas of university life, and including Māori nomenclature and observances in university operations.

Dane Giraud: Incitement, or the normalisation of hate? Which speech is worse?

Viewed in our recent past as the great redeemer from Silicon Valley’s ever-expanding dominion over our digital discourse, erstwhile Twitter titan turned X CEO, Elon Musk, may be walking back his commitment to free speech.

Musk has threatened to suspend users on his social media platform for use of the phrase “from the river to the sea” and the term “decolonization” when applied to the Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza.

Brendan O'Neill: Identity politics and the retreat from reason

Afua Hirsch’s new book confirms that the narcissism of the new elites is undermining the Enlightenment.

One of the weirdest things about identitarian activists is that they hate being asked where they’re from but they love telling you where they’re from. Politely inquire about their ethnic or cultural origins and they’ll damn you as a racist. ‘How dare you, I’m as British as you!’, they’ll yell, either to your face or in a column in the Guardian in which they’ll document at great, yawn-inducing length the horror of having some dim pleb ask about their family origins.