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Post by muzled on Jul 1, 2024 16:14:27 GMT 12
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 11, 2024 8:15:21 GMT 12
www.chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/activist-set-to-trash-new-zealand-on-global-stage-act/ACT is renewing calls to scrap the Human Rights Commission as it joins a reported “march of shame” to Geneva criticising New Zealand’s commitment to indigenous rights and calling the Coalition Government “racist.” Commission “shared leader” activist Julia Whaipooti will address the 17th annual session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva. She claims New Zealand is backsliding on its Te Tiriti and international human rights obligations regarding indigenous people. She will also support the National Iwi Chairs Forum’s Aotearoa Independent Monitoring Mechanism, which says New Zealand has its most racist government in years. ACT Justice spokesman Todd Stephenson said “This has become absurd. Hard-up Kiwi taxpayers are forking out for an activist group to fly to Switzerland and trash New Zealand on the world stage.” “When the Commission says the Government is backsliding on indigenous rights, it gives examples like the return of local referenda for Māori wards, the disestablishment of race-based health services, and ACT’s legislation to ensure the Treaty delivers its promise of the same rights and duties for all. “The Human Rights Commission is obsessed with race and identity. It is dismissive of basic individual rights like free speech and the right to be safe from criminals, and it actively campaigns for policies that divide Māori from non-Māori. It is disgraceful that we give it $15 million a year to do this in the name of human rights and with the false credibility of quasi-government status. “New Zealand can be immensely proud of our record on human rights, including the ways we have redressed past wrongs committed against Māori through the Waitangi Tribunal. The prominence of Māori culture in New Zealand is a drawcard for tourists and trading partners. In trying to smear our hard-won reputation, the Commission threatens our industries and our diplomatic influence. “If the Commission leadership want to campaign against the government, they should join a voluntary activist group or run for Parliament. New Zealanders shouldn’t be forced to fund their political activism. “ACT’s heart goes out to members of the audience in Geneva – especially those indigenous people who’ve travelled from non-democratic countries facing very real human rights abuses, who will have to compete for speaking time against the Human Rights Commission’s hysterical tripe.”
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Post by muzled on Jul 11, 2024 10:54:10 GMT 12
www.chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/activist-set-to-trash-new-zealand-on-global-stage-act/ACT is renewing calls to scrap the Human Rights Commission as it joins a reported “march of shame” to Geneva criticising New Zealand’s commitment to indigenous rights and calling the Coalition Government “racist.” Commission “shared leader” activist Julia Whaipooti will address the 17th annual session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva. She claims New Zealand is backsliding on its Te Tiriti and international human rights obligations regarding indigenous people. She will also support the National Iwi Chairs Forum’s Aotearoa Independent Monitoring Mechanism, which says New Zealand has its most racist government in years. ACT Justice spokesman Todd Stephenson said “This has become absurd. Hard-up Kiwi taxpayers are forking out for an activist group to fly to Switzerland and trash New Zealand on the world stage.” “When the Commission says the Government is backsliding on indigenous rights, it gives examples like the return of local referenda for Māori wards, the disestablishment of race-based health services, and ACT’s legislation to ensure the Treaty delivers its promise of the same rights and duties for all. “The Human Rights Commission is obsessed with race and identity. It is dismissive of basic individual rights like free speech and the right to be safe from criminals, and it actively campaigns for policies that divide Māori from non-Māori. It is disgraceful that we give it $15 million a year to do this in the name of human rights and with the false credibility of quasi-government status. “New Zealand can be immensely proud of our record on human rights, including the ways we have redressed past wrongs committed against Māori through the Waitangi Tribunal. The prominence of Māori culture in New Zealand is a drawcard for tourists and trading partners. In trying to smear our hard-won reputation, the Commission threatens our industries and our diplomatic influence. “If the Commission leadership want to campaign against the government, they should join a voluntary activist group or run for Parliament. New Zealanders shouldn’t be forced to fund their political activism. “ACT’s heart goes out to members of the audience in Geneva – especially those indigenous people who’ve travelled from non-democratic countries facing very real human rights abuses, who will have to compete for speaking time against the Human Rights Commission’s hysterical tripe.” Ha, Plunkett has an interview with Winston First about this issue. Winston saying he hadn't heard about it before Plunkett raised it and wasn't impressed. I'm hoping he follows through. theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/acting-prime-minister-winston-peters-on-darleen-tana(it's part way through)
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 11, 2024 20:28:36 GMT 12
More unbelievable woke crap, a kindergarten threatened with closure because it is not pushing the maori wonderfulness indoctrination hard enough www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/07/resistance_is_futile.html#commentsStuff reports: ACT leader David Seymour says a Ministry of Education decision to shut down a Manawatū kindergarten appears to be “acting against the will of the community”. In comments made to Stuff, Seymour said he would be asking ministry officials to explain why they were closing Country Kindy, when he met with them on Monday. “I am very concerned by this action. It would appear that the ministry is acting against the will of the community, rather than upholding standards on its behalf,“ he said. Country Kindy, between Feilding and Palmerston North, had been stripped of its licence over curriculum issues, a decision the Early Childhood Council described as an “overreach”.
This is unusual. Normally you only close an institution if it is unsafe. So what are the sins done by Country Kindy:
A 2022 Education Review Office report found children’s culture, language and identity at the kindergarten were not consistently reflected in the curriculum. It also found learning partnerships with tamariki and whānau Māori were not evident, and the kindergarten had not made clear progress with previous recommendations.
So they close down the only Kindy in the area, despite the support of parents. UPDATE: The closure is delayed for at least 12 weeks, which is good.
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Post by muzled on Jul 14, 2024 10:58:06 GMT 12
I recently signed up for Michael Donaldsons Friday Night Beers email.
He has some interesting reviews.
But if I had any inclination to pay for his newsletter, it soon went out the door after reading this waffle.
I wonder if Te Aro Brewing had 'consulted' with the tikanga expert if they'd have been allowed to use Kupe.
Te Aro’s Kupe can — is all publicity good publicity? Last week’s missive was queued to go out on Friday morning as I was taking a long weekend off … and thus I missed Denise Garland’s excellent scoop on Te Aro Brewing’s Kupe can as part of their Age of Discovery series.
Te Aro Brewing Company’s use of Kupe to promote craft beer ‘highly offensive’ - expert - NZ Herald
Or if you prefer to listen:
Controversy over brewery naming beer “Kupe” | RNZ
To me, the nub of this story is summed up by tikanga expert Dr Karaitiana Taiuru (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Toa) who said he was “gobsmacked this is actually happening in New Zealand in 2024 … Depicting and using a famous Māori and Pacifica ancestor such as Kupe for alcohol is highly offensive.”
The reason Kupe shouldn’t be on a can, is the same reason a topless woman shouldn’t be on a can.
There’s been a bit of commentary online about this — though I note Te Aro have limited or closed comments on their social media accounts — and a lot of it has focused on whether Kupe should have been included alongside colonial explorers such as Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan.
To me that skirts the point. Te Aro are not newcomers to the brewing scene. The Upper Hutt crew have been around for 10 years and I don’t think you can be a decade-old brewery and not know about this stuff. It’s been reported on for years in mainstream media and specialist beer magazines such as Pursuit of Hoppiness.
This has been such a problem that the Brewers Guild of New Zealand produced a guide on the appropriate use of Māori culture in the brewing industry.
In 2016, Auckland’s Birkenhead Brewing Company apologised for using images of Te Arawa ancestors Tūtānekai and Hinemoa on two of its beer labels.
Several UK and European breweries had also been accused of cultural appropriation for using Māori images and kupu on their beer labels in 2017 and 2018, including a Belgian brewery for naming one of its offerings “Māori Tears”, and a brewer in Bath for having a caricature of a Māori man riding a Kiwi while performing pukana on a beer label.
In nearly every case mentioned above there has been some contrition and acknowledgment of a mistake.
But Te Aro remain surprisingly silent and wouldn’t comment for Denise’s story.
Perhaps it was a genuine mistake. But for all the reasons given above I think any New Zealand brewery that took even a moment’s pause to think about using Māori imagery in association with beer would need only that moment to realise it was a mistake and they’d drop it.
So to push on with the idea and go as far as designing cans and getting imagery made and still not stop, shows either complete recklessness or a cynical desire to make news for all the wrong reasons.
Look, if you want to make a range called the Age of Discovery, sure, make it. But use different people. There’s even a raft of fictional explorers you could rustle up, from Captain Nemo, to Gilligan, to Dora the Explorer.
And at this point, the argument is not whether the beer is any good or not. There’s plenty of good beer out there and most of it is created with an understanding of the wider world and a sensitivity to the concerns of others.
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Post by Cantab on Jul 14, 2024 11:54:09 GMT 12
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Post by GO30 on Jul 14, 2024 17:34:55 GMT 12
BOOM!! Yeap, there be the empty post containing a very stealthy tweet related placeholder.
{edit} BOOM x 2 and it disappeared again, stealthy it sure is
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Post by muzled on Jul 18, 2024 15:02:51 GMT 12
Elon Musk decides to move the headquarters of both SpaceX and X (Twitter) out of California after that state passes law to prevent schools notifying parents if their child decides to identify as transgender: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9QfU26Ac2g
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 19, 2024 8:39:05 GMT 12
Hope this is true Be good if the likes of Air NZ and KiwiBank did the same
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Post by Cantab on Jul 19, 2024 9:03:13 GMT 12
National party too
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Post by muzled on Jul 19, 2024 10:06:35 GMT 12
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 26, 2024 10:03:13 GMT 12
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Post by muzled on Jul 26, 2024 10:54:14 GMT 12
I saw another one of his tweets the other day, I had no opinion of him one way or the other, but, like when I read the tweet above, my opinion of him went up.
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Post by GO30 on Jul 26, 2024 13:16:53 GMT 12
Our Farter who art in the Yacht Club bar Farked if I can remember your name Thy start time will becoming As thy start will be done
On Harbour as on Lake Give us this day our daily cold beersies And don't forgive us our excessively loud stereo As we forgive those who chundered in our cockpits
Lead us not into nasty holes but deliver us to the best shifts For thy is Hughie who comes with gusts and squalls for ever and ever or just a fucking long time
Amen and if they are hot even aWomen.
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Post by GO30 on Jul 26, 2024 16:20:40 GMT 12
I've had the 2nd call today asking if we do CarIkeas, those Maori singing/poetry/chatty/blaa blaa things I'm assuming, at work. And then this thread.
Has someone done a silly again?
As I said to one, I have no problem what so ever if a Maori or any wokie wants to do a Carikea but on 3 provisos. One is they do not use 'getting shit done' time, 2nd is they can not force anyone to sit through it and the 3rd is they must allow anyone else to do their version of the same thing. Somehow I see very few wokies agreeing to that.
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