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Racist National govt to remove Maōri words from children's reading books. (www.rnz.co.nz)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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...