Barrie Davis: Behaviourism 101

We regularly receive communications from the authorities, universities and the media which seem to be driven by an ideology of either a Maori or a European persuasion. What brings about these communications: why are they created and how are they structured? And what do they achieve and how should we respond? Barrie Davis uses behavioural psychology to help find some answers.

In a recent Breaking Views post, “Dealing with today's small, raucous, crazy Maori fringe,” 21 July 2024 here, Dr Michael Bassett critically commented on the Jack Tame interview of Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, in particular her “assertions about how Maori ‘korero’ and ‘kaupapa’ justified her allegations of ‘genocide’ being perpetrated by a ‘white supremacist’ government against Maori.”