Judith Collins is clearly over the target, given yesterday’s opinion piece by Joel Maxwell where he tied himself in knots in his attempts to smear Judith and justify the unjustifiable.
How did he counter Judith Collins’s statements? Did he have facts to back up his attack? Nope, all he had was the tired and true smear and silence tactic of crying raaaaacism coupled with the statement that he is Maori.
Below is a summary of his entire argument.
1. Forget about the actual issues, Maori are the real victims here.
So, of course, despite nationwide angst over Treaty overreach, separatism, and apartheid, the only people to literally experience apartheid in Aotearoa were Maori.
2. The evidence of what Collins is saying exists, but if I mock the document and try to make it all sound like a conspiracy, then no one will notice that I have no counter argument at all.
Opposition leader Judith Collins ditched a cautious race relations approach to instead kick off about separatism, iwi control of water, and some secret Government plans to create an extra-brown Upper House of Parliament. He Puapua, an old Cabinet paper, was yanked out from under a table leg as proof.
3. Use the racism card.
It was all catnip to racists […] Perhaps Collins was looking to regain supporters by conjuring the brown bogeyman.
4. Claim that National has a target on its back for cancellation as I paint a large target on its back for cancellation.
It all raises an important question though. What do you do when your entire identity is now cancellation bait?
5. Removing a community’s right to vote on important decisions is progress.
Take the Maori ward law. It wiped community-launched binding polls on the wards, allowed under the previous legislation.
Now, I laugh when I see a mayor throwing logistical chairs and bookshelves behind them as they run from progress.
6. If democracy does not get the result I want then democracy needs to be taken away.
Conversations? We had those for two decades. It turned out Maori could be endlessly told to ‘shove it’ by the simple application of process. A grand total of two councils were allowed Maori wards under 20 years of the old law.
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