Iwi Chairs Forum reps pull out of anti-racism plan due to 'continued racist rhetoric' ( www.rnz.co.nz )

"Our government has signalled changes to the plan, including a reduced focus on institutional racism and colonial racism against Māori, which would render the plan pointless as all instances of personal racism result from the institutional racism of our society," Ngata said.

Uhh, what? What absolute nonsense is this?

Honestly, this whole thing feels like the forum getting the pip because we weren't making this all about them, and taking their ball and going home.

And then there's Bullshit like this.

Maori aren't the only group in NZ on the receiving end of racist behaviour.

Xcf456 ,

Why can't it be about anti-racism for other groups, and be about systemic and colonial racism? It doesn't have to be one or the other but gee this government sure loves playing the two off against each other.

It reads a lot like the kind of colonial and institutional racism theyre wanting to address in the first place.

Ilovethebomb OP ,

That... Was the original plan. There was some debate, however, about just how much focus there would be on institutional racism.

liv ,
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"This plan is one of many things that we are working on together with Iwi Chairs and while they've decided to step back from this opportunity, there are many other areas we are working together on and I hope we continue to have a good relationship."

Erm, given that it pulled out after stating the current government is too racist to do anti-racist stuff with them, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Iwi Chairs basically just said they're going to do their own anti-racism thing and roll it into regions without Central govt input. That looks like a seismic shift to me.

AWOL_muppet ,

Are you meaning something like a vote of no confidence?

Looks like that to me.

Ilovethebomb OP ,

A vote of no confidence is still participating in the system, this is withdrawing completely.

AWOL_muppet ,

Fair point, but it's probably not the system they have an issue with, it's the current embodiment/makeup. I don't know if that's a meaningful distinction - we're basically splitting hairs aren't we?

Ilovethebomb OP ,

I honestly have trouble knowing how seriously to take this, I've seen so many people cry racism when they don't get their own way lately, it's lost it's meaning somewhat.

BalpeenHammer ,

If you don't believe racism exists then of course you wouldn't take it seriously. There is a very large percent of this country that doesn't believe racism exists in NZ and another huge percent that are deeply racist so deep that it's baked into their everyday language. The two circles overlap by a large amount too.

Ilovethebomb OP ,

Oh, I am well aware that racism exists, but thanks for the patronising lecture.

My point was, a lot of people, particularly Maori, seem to define racism as being treated like any other ethnic group by the government.

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