National has decided to go with its disgusting "Who owns the beaches? Iwis / Kiwis" billboard - sans the incorrect plural.
I find it quite disturbing that a supposedly "mainstream" political party is engaged in this sort of race-baiting and campaigning on the basis that Maori are not kiwis. But should we really expect any different from the party of Muldoon, which still panders to "Rob's (racist) mob" every year?
Where does it say that Maoris are not Kiwis?
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty dishonest to infer that sentiment, when about a third of Maori don't identify with an iwi at all. Most people indentify iwi as governing organisations in the same way that criticising a country's government is not a racial slur on its citizens. And it isn't even criticising iwi! It's just making a statement that they don't own something.
ReplyDeleteRob's Mob left the party along time ago - even if you accept they existed - which some dispute.
ReplyDeleteDon't be so sanctiomonious.
That is not the only change. It just talks about "Beaches" rather than "Who owns the beaches" and there is no doubt that the Government has legislated for a huge range of rights for Iwi in relation to beaches.
ReplyDeleteFarrar, you're being disingenous. You know damn well what it still implies, even with the ambiguous brevity: "Labour's legislation panders to iwi and gives them de facto ownership." It further implies that National has an easy solution to an issue that is fraught with difficulty. There's one word for that, and it's nothing so prim as "baloney".
ReplyDelete"Mr Joyce maintained the message was more subtle than it might appear and with the iwi being part of the word Kiwi as well was not setting up an iwi vs kiwi polemic."
ReplyDeleteGod these people are full of it (baloney not)!
The saddest bit of this is that the people who got turned off National because the message was too long will love this.
Still the government deserves to get a tennis ball in the mouth for its' caving in on S+F issue.
Hmmm, very serious discussions about Nats billboards on this site. Check this site http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00037.htm
ReplyDeletefor some laughs
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