Comments by "Laurence Fraser" (@laurencefraser) on "Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan" channel.

Act and National love to use the legitimate complaint that the Te Parti Maori, the Greens, and Labour legitimately engage in racial discrimination against non-maori (or perhaps, more accurately, unwarrented racial discrimination in favour of Maori to the detriment of others, in the case of the latter two), which is an actual problem that actually needs solving, as a jumping off point and excuse to push all sorts of maliciously anti-citizenry goals under the guise of 'equality'. They don't actually care about racism, of course, only that it's a convenient lever to push policies that let them and their rich mates make more money and accumulate more power at the expense of the common citizen, and to divide those who would oppose such policies and turn them against one another.
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@yingle6027 Thing is, they'd say that it was about ensrining equality in the law whether it was about that or about mining... heck, they might even believe it's about ensrining equality in the law... but also see nothing wrong in exploiting the process to attain secondary goals... such as allowing mining which really shouldn't happen if that serves their interests.
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Definitely not a one world government. That said, it's not ALL the way over to 'the kitchen in eveyrone's house is on fire at the same time by accident'. It's more 'the same people benefited from supplying substandard equipment to those building the kitchens at about the same time, leading to them failing in similar ways at similar times when measures to compensate for the flaws were not enacted'.
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@kittycat-kg4dm Mind you, what a lot of people like to ignore about the 'beaten for speaking maori' thing is that the beatings in question were standard punishment for a Lot of things you weren't allowed to do at the time, and the reason you weren't allowed to speak maori in school was Racist Maori Leaders pitching a fit about the idea that the inferior Non Maori might possibly speak their sacred language (by way of learning it as kids from their maori classmates), and the government of the day going along with their nonsense because they were trying to be respectful of maori culture? or something? It wasn't actually Racism Against Maori that got you in trouble for speaking Maori in schools, is what I'm saying here.
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@border7778 Yeeeah.. it's a lot more complicated than that and pretending it isn't is buying into a Lot of propaganda that exists largely to let unsavory individuals get away with things they shouldn't by pointing you in other directions. Lets just say that while there have been a few stand out instances of the British/central government doing things they shouldn't have that were very racist, they also get blamed for a LOT of things that either werren't them or just didn't happen (for instance, the perpetual story about maori kids getting beaten for speaking maori in school? Europea kids would also get beaten for speaking maori in school. This was because said beatings were standard disciplinary measures at the time and there was official policy that Maori was not to be spoken in schools. Said policy did not, however, originate with the evil white government attempting to oppress the maori, but rather with the (rather foolish) white government attempting to Support Maori Culture and autonomy by going along with with the Maori leadership of the day wanted... said amori leadership being a bunch of racist old men who didn't what then 'inferior' non-maori 'defiling' their 'sacred' language. ... ... Bit of an own goal, there, really. ) Mind you, the same sort of people do the same thing to those on the other side of such issues, because actually rationally looking at the facts might let actually reasonably conclusions be reached by actually reasonable people who would then not be too busy dealing with both sides' crazies to actually to a stop to the nonsense people like David Seymour get up to.
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@EkillRetired Ehh, there's always a distinct element of certain subsets of the rich and powerful actively trying to keep everyone who isn't them down because that's how they stay/become more rich and powerful, and racism is a popular tool for those types as it's an easy way to set people whose interests would otherwise aline against said rich and powerful individuals against each other instead. Also, NZ's immigration workers are somewhat notorious for how many of them are Very racist and/or anti-imigrant. But yeah, there's not really any active attempt by any one group to suppress or oppress any other. (well, aside from te parti maori (not sure on the spelling) which, last I checked, looks an awful lot like a maori suppremicist group with all That entails... Which is rather sad, as the Maori party started out with at least legitimately good goals (the fact that they could have any success in the first place said bad things about both the system and the other parties, and I didn't agree with them about very much, but that's a different matter))
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@Praenuntium Nah, the problem here is that your options are 'moderately discriminatory in favour of maori' 'maori suppremacists who would really like to deport all the non-maori, and probalby anyone who's not 'maori enough' too' and a bunch of right wing parties (ACT is 'far right' in the sense that they're Fairly mild libertarians and that's as 'far right' as you can get and still have any legitimacy At All here without riding the chain of failures on everyone else's part that alowed te parti maori to exist) who like to Claim to be about equality but in practice are about using the racial divisions that the other parties have so helpfully provided with their poorly thought out (or sometimes just poorly Presented...) policies and positions as a way to prevent opposition to their generally anti-general-citizenry, 'screw anyone who isn't already rich and powerful', actual goals and policies. Rule of thumb? If Labour says something is about equality? They're Probably actually trying to improve equality... now, how good a job they'll do is another matter (when it comes to racial matters their track record isn't great, on other matters they tend to be fairly good). The Greens? it won't be about Equality, it will be about performative virtue signalling, any actual benefit to anyone will be entirely incidental. Te Parti Maori? It will be a flat out lie, they're Maori suppremacists, if it's not screwing over everyone else it's not 'equal enough' for them. If New Zealand First says something is about equality? ... well, there'll probably be some vague attempt at improving equality in there somewhere, but it's vastly more about saying the right thing to get people to vote for them (NZ Firsts actual actions are generally a mix of 'putting the breaks on dishonest or really stupid moves by other parties' and 'whatever is in the interests of whoever made up the core of their voter base this election cycle' (which can generally be summed up as 'whoever is not currently being well served by anyone else and wasn't put off by whatever message they used to entice as many people as possible away from other parties this time'), National? It's almost universally just trying to attach the terrible idea they're trying to push to an ideological staple which one can't oppose without having many loud and annoying unrelated groups pitching a fit over That, and generally degrade opposition by causing division. ACT? The same, but more so, with a side of legitimately trying to get people to beleive that the connection actually exists so they'll actually act against their own interests.
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@ProgressiveConservative You're correct. Unfortunately our right wing politicians are no more interested in actually fixing that than the Maori nationalists, it just makes a convenient lever to turn those who would otherwise oppose their generally anti-citizenry policies against each other and keep them distracted.
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