No sympathy for Key from minor parties

17 Nov 2011 05:45p.m.

Anna Sunter wrote:

What a great post from Elizabeth Wilson!! Thank you for that. It's good to see someone talking sense for a change instead of being dragged into the arguments of one side or the other ad infinitum :)

17 Nov 2011 03:55p.m.

Wills wrote:

The three Maori candidates Hone, Winston and Tariana won that debate by a mile. The crowds positive reaction to their comments proved that. Compare it to the collective groan they gave Don Brash as soon as he brought up the Maori seats. lol

17 Nov 2011 02:57p.m.

Matheson wrote:

to address the milieu of misplaced and strangely projective racism that is abound on this thread i will make a few bulletpoints. - Maori centred policy is not separatist merely because it proposes alternative framework for generating duties from values -Moriori -war- with Maori was explicit, colonialism is inherently insidious and corrodes culture through subsumption not destruction -what many of you see as "hate" of pakeha and so on is nonsense and betrays your eurocentric exceptionalism; racist policy and policy based on recognition of race as valid, are two vastly different concepts -Anyone wanting to defend a position that situates Maori at the bottom of the social strata due to their intrinsic shortcomings is an idiot; structural marginalization is endemic in liberal-democratic-capitalist society and is not unique to the plight of Maori -Maori separatism is a phrase bandied about by intellectually vacant pseudo-scholarship hicks to disguise what is a total disconnect with the social organic process and its varieties of adjustable value-systems that all rely on constructed realities