Yep, another 'gate' story. This one is here in New Zealand as writer exposes appeasement:
"Wake Up New Zealand, We’re Being Conned!" by John Ansell
"These two opposite reactions caused me to divide Maori into two broad groups, which I call Achievers and Grievers.
The Achievers I admire very much, especially those who – sadly – feel they have to escape to Australia to live the lives of equal New Zealanders.
But the Grievers I can’t abide.
They clearly descend from the ethically-flexible rebel minority who breached the Treaty in the wars of the nineteenth century, and their inflated sense of entitlement has been costing the rest of us dearly.
It is a charming but potentially fatal flaw of New Zealanders that we want to be nice to people at all costs.
Unfortunately there is a fine line between niceness and cowardice.
Being nice to Griever Maori can be very costly indeed – especially when the iwi elite are aided and abetted in their extortion attempts by all the other elites– the political, bureaucratic, academic, judicial, legal, and media.
The approach of successive governments since the early seventies can be summed up by a word most commonly associated with the late thirties: appeasement."
Read the rest here.
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