Posted by alexandra_k on April 23, 2021, at 22:38:54
you are doing your job...
you are saying things that are on the minds of many many many many many people, in new zealand.
many maaori leaders, particularly.
you are articulating thoughts that are widely believed. saying them. articulating them clearly and well.
and you are getting a bit of a hammering.
but it is part of the process for working through.
new zealand says we haven't genocided maaori (we are not guilty of trying) because work and income has been encouraging the breeding of second class or third class... slaves... people... 'i dream of genie' about them. uplifted by government agencies. abused in government agencies / in state care. only to go into psychiatric hospitals or prisons or be homeless...
but what is genocide? none of that is maaori culture. you can exterminate a culture in other ways. by... mis-appropriation. by takin the language and... taking control of it. in 1984 style...
but we can't get to any of there... any of that...
until maaori leaders accept that maaori are people with the same rights as everyone else. and part of that is maaori leaders acceping that people have rights.
and not 'awwwwwwwwwwwww there's nothing we can do'. and 'awwwwwwwwwwwww too bad you lose'. about it.
it is about... feeling disempowered. like there is nothing you can do. so not being able to face up to.
there is an element of self-protectiveness. in teh blindness. not being able to see.
part of it is about entire belief systems / frameworks that people have.
people think that if x then y and if y then z and if z then things are so bad that i can't cope i can't cope i can't cope.
but z is not true. x is true. and y doesn't follow at all.
but you can't work through how y doesn't follow at all until people start to face up to x.
but they deny x because they can't face up to z.
it's a mess.
all over.
poster:alexandra_k
thread:1114725
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