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Racist National govt to remove Maōri words from children's reading books. (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Bort@sh.itjust.works to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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Once again our current govt shows it's disdain for Maōri and te Tiriti.

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[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What they said was they were glad the people involved on the kapa haka group were more inclusive than you.

No they made a specific insult and said I was against inclusion of children with disabilities in kapa haka groups.

I’m just pointing out how needlessly rude you were.

I feel no need to be polite to people who hurl unwarranted insults at me and accuse me of being a bigot.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No that all happened after you questioned their education and called them sick.

Edit: read from here https://sh.itjust.works/comment/20376613

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I called her sick because she wants to deny students books with maori words in them because her child has a learning disability.

I never said kids with disabilities of any kind should be excluded from any kapa haka group or anything else, she made that accusation out of the blue.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

And look in your defence, they DID have a clumsily worded anecdote that was only tangentially related (and it took AGES to reveal the additional challenge these books created for their kid, was what they were getting at - I understand that).

I guess what I'm getting at is: attack their point - not the personality.

Needless to say, I'm over it...