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

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Ilovethebomb to c/politics

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"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.

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[–] Xcf456 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Xcf456 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It was the original plan until this government decided how much focus there was going to be was "none", which is why Iwi Chairs have pulled out

[–] Ilovethebomb 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bear in mind, this got started in the aftermath of the Christchurch terror attacks, which was the actions of a single person against a minority group.

It wasn't originally about institutional racism at all.

[–] Xcf456 1 points 7 months ago

Yes it was. See the numerous references here: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2017/08/committee-elimination-racial-discrimination-examines-report-new-zealand

This is from the UN committee that recommended the action plan in 2017, which the RNZ article also mentions

[–] Rangelus 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is exactly the issue here. The original plan talks about racism against everyone, AND specifically mentioned colonial racism for Maori. To make it "fair" this government wants to remove the later part. I can understand why Maori feel like this is an attack specifically against them.

[–] Ilovethebomb 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not remove, just make it less of a focus.

[–] Rangelus 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They are removing the wording, as far as I know, to make it "focus on all New Zealanders", which it was already doing.

Again, I can understand why Iwi feel this is attacking them specifically.

[–] Ilovethebomb 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

[–] Rangelus 2 points 7 months ago

Yes, exactly. But not in the direction you are suggesting.

Pakeha have enjoyed privilege for almost the entire history of New Zealand. For some, any effort to correct this may look like an unequal situation, but when looking at the bigger picture it really isn't.