In an interview on Q+A with Jack Tame, Eru Kapa-Kingi, the prominent face of the separatist-leaning Toitū te Tiriti movement, defended his position on the Treaty Principles Bill proposed by the ACT Party.
I found the interview to be not particularly enlightening, it is hard to understand exactly what vision Mr Kapa-Kingi has. It is all very well to suggest looking back to the position of Maori 200 years ago, but I suggest there is most likely only an extremely few people anywhere on the globe who want to live as their recent ancestors did 200 years ago. Presumably Mr kapa-Kingi envisions a thoroughly modern NZ run according to an updated version of Tikanga with some similarities to pre-ToW times. But he appears to have no idea what this will look like. And far more importantly, he appears to have no interest or conception of what the other citizens making up the vast majority of the NZ population might want.
I wonder if he will be surprised when this kind of thinking leads to the rise of an entire new set of race/identity based parties with very different hopes and expectations? Even if NZ divided up into major sub categories such as generic European NZ, Indian NZ, Chinese NZ, the possibilites for endless division are obvious. And this is without even considering parties based on religious viewpoints. I fear the separatist agenda espoused here could easily lead us into a very fractured and unpleasant future, once all groupings are encouraged to self-identify with some degree of exclusivity.
Jack Tame has a creditable record in having put the question of equal rights and democracy to Ardern, Jackson and Hipkins over co-governance. He's one of the very few legacy media journalists who has reliably asked those questions.
My recollection of his interview's with Ardern were soft, but I agree he has improved a lot now. There are many at newstalk zb that ask the tough questions still.
Everyone in this country are settlers, including Maori.
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I found the interview to be not particularly enlightening, it is hard to understand exactly what vision Mr Kapa-Kingi has. It is all very well to suggest looking back to the position of Maori 200 years ago, but I suggest there is most likely only an extremely few people anywhere on the globe who want to live as their recent ancestors did 200 years ago. Presumably Mr kapa-Kingi envisions a thoroughly modern NZ run according to an updated version of Tikanga with some similarities to pre-ToW times. But he appears to have no idea what this will look like. And far more importantly, he appears to have no interest or conception of what the other citizens making up the vast majority of the NZ population might want.
I wonder if he will be surprised when this kind of thinking leads to the rise of an entire new set of race/identity based parties with very different hopes and expectations? Even if NZ divided up into major sub categories such as generic European NZ, Indian NZ, Chinese NZ, the possibilites for endless division are obvious. And this is without even considering parties based on religious viewpoints. I fear the separatist agenda espoused here could easily lead us into a very fractured and unpleasant future, once all groupings are encouraged to self-identify with some degree of exclusivity.
They are just going to wing it, they sound like the Black Panthers.
Jack Tame has a creditable record in having put the question of equal rights and democracy to Ardern, Jackson and Hipkins over co-governance. He's one of the very few legacy media journalists who has reliably asked those questions.
My recollection of his interview's with Ardern were soft, but I agree he has improved a lot now. There are many at newstalk zb that ask the tough questions still.
You're right about Newstalk ZB. I've slightly amended my comment to make it less categorical. Thanks.
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