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New Zealand coalition votes to make English an official language as critics decry ‘cynical’ bill
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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Well I'd expect most of the general public to see this and think "huh, I support that, I'm surprised it's not already in law as an official language", so I'm not sure the racism would be that obvious to the average person.
Typically we'd rely on news media to do this critical thinking for us.
It's a shame that now we mostly have mainstream reporters just reporting events rather than journalists analysing events.
Well the article I linked above from 2023 does much of the analysing and is how I became aware that it's unusual the put this in law so I think we can give journalists some credit 🙂
Yeah. That was pretty good.