I’m old enough to remember when the definition of racism was essentially “negative things that are directly related to a race of people”. Anyone could face racism, and anyone could be racist.
I’m also old enough to remember when we didn’t treat people differently because of their skin colour.
The recent victory of the National/ACT/NZ First coalition and their promise to apply things like Funding and Focus based on Need, rather than skin colour has stirred this up once more.
Te Paati Maaori and others have arranged protests. What were they protesting?
“Apparent racism”. She said the quiet part out loud. It’s only imaginary, whipped up by Debbie and her supporters.
When preferential treatment becomes ingrained, fair treatment feels like an attack.
– Someone. Probably a philosopher. Or I saw it on X.
We now have posts like the below circulating on Facebook.
Back in May, according to Doctor Rawiri Taonui, anyone who disagrees with Marama Davidson (of the “I am the prevention violence minister, I know who causes the violence in the world, and it’s cis white males” comment) must themself be a racist.
it’s akin to the belief that was espoused recently by the HRC that certain ethnicities “could not be racist”.
