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Winston Peters, NZ First follows Donald Trump’s anti-DEI path with new Bill (www.nzherald.co.nz)

submitted 2 days ago by eagleeyedtiger to c/politics

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Winston as usual showing his true colours. Why the hell should we follow the US?

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[–] eagleeyedtiger 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah that's possible I guess.

[–] BalpeenHammer 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's possible because kiwis are racist.

When they see a brown person working at a job they don't think "this person had to work much harder than a white person to overcome the racism in this country to get this job" they think "A brown person can never be qualified for this job so they got it because a white person felt sorry for them or was forced to hire them because of DEI".

In mean time the HR manager is throwing away every CV with a name (s)he doesn't recognise as being European.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 1 points 1 day ago

I don't deny there is lots of casual racism here. I'm originally from south east asia but grew up here and experienced it from all colours of people. However, it's definitely a lot less now that I'm older or maybe because there are many more migrants here than there was 30 years ago. Although the name thing rings true in some regards, especially with chinese/indian/muslim sounding names, a lot of times they assume they can't speak English. I'm lucky enough that my name isn't particularly asian sounding, and I'm sure I've landed job interviews in the past because of it.