With her latest racial ranting, Te Pati Māori (Māori Party) Co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer has lowered her own abjectly low standards. Faced with a person like this, it’s hard to remain civil.
In her 14 July 2024 interview with Jack Tame, Debased Debbie described the current Government as white supremacist and genocidal towards Māori citizens of New Zealand.
You can hear salient excerpts from the interview here (the recording comes from the Hobson’s Pledge “Nazis”).
For good measure - albeit somewhat tangentially – D N-P also told Tame that New Zealand’s current Government is complicit in a genocide in Gaza, and is also “ecocidal”. According to an “expert” panel of lawyers convened by the World Economic Forum (Klaus Schwab’s odd mob), ecocide is defined as follows:
We mustn’t lose sight of the fact that Ngarewa-Packer wasn’t spitting her vile bile from some obscure corner of the internet, or even on Māori TV. Her Podium was our national television broadcaster, TVNZ, with no apparent apprehension on her part that she could be digging herself into any sort of kumara hole. Sticking it into her nation, smashing us right in the teeth, accusing every member and supporter of the current Government of racist genocide.
In ordinary times, one could reasonably expect powerful societal responses to Ngarewa-Packer’s startling alleged genocide of anyone with a Māori ancestor.
What might New Zealand’s Human Rights and Race Relations Commissioner, Karanina Sumeo, think of all this? Karanina has a master’s degree in “social policy” from…you guessed it…Massey University and a PHD in “public policy” from…you know it…Auckland University of Technology.
Karanina strikes me as a nice person. If she agrees with D N-P, one should expect her to come out powerfully against the Māori-genocidal Government.
Or, if perchance Debbie’s accusation that some New Zealander leaders are systematically killing Māori people is…false, we might expect the Human Rights Commission to pipe up about that. Unfortunately, it’s as if there’s some sort of secret compact between Māori and Pasifika people that they won’t criticize each other on matters of race.
What the Human Rights/Race Relations Commissioner should do, of course, is take Deborah aside and firmly invite her to tone down the race rhetoric. But that didn’t happen with Tusiata Avia, and isn’t happening with Ngarewa-Packer, Māori Party Co-Leader Rawiri Waititi, Waititi’s bonkers wife (Kiri Tamihere-Waititi, John Tamihere’s daughter) or any others in the cozy coterie of crazy race baiters. The only deathly thing is the silence.
The most mysterious thing about Our Deborah’s drivel – at least to me – is whether there’s any sincerity to her utterances that there’s a genocide against Māori (or some Māori, or some mysterious Māori “Identity”). She’s probably insincere - which I think makes it worse - but who knows? Either way, considered objectively and dispassionately, she’s deliberately trying to foment a violent race war in New Zealand, or at least acts of political violence. Mercifully, that’s unlikely, because there is of course no genocide and most Maori see what D N-P says for what it is - rancid lunacy.
But apologists abound for the sort of putrid piffle that the likes of D N-P spout. Defenders of Ngarewa-Packer come in two basic strains. (I’m excluding those who actually agree with her race-hate tripe.)
The first defender group asserts that Hate Packer is simply exercising her free speech…and what’s wrong with that – don’t you believe in free speech? This defence conflates the overall societal benefits of citizens speaking freely with the quality of any particular item of speech. But just because the concept of free speech is laudable and beneficial doesn’t of course mean that what someone says necessarily has any merit - or isn’t awful. And even the most ardent Free Speecher draws the line at speech that advocates violence, which is a line that Ngarewa-Packer is brazenly walking, with impunity. (I still favour D N-P saying whatever she wants, however distasteful and dotty.)
The second strain of Debbie Defenders claims that she’s just unappealingly appealing to her constituents and those she’s hoping to recruit into her ideological camp. Which is about as convincing as arguing that a nascent Ku Kluz Klan party in New Zealand could legitimately promote lynching of brown-skinned people, in order to appeal to any constituency harboring such dark and retrograde aspirations.
Debbie and her race rabble are big on blood purity and what it takes to be a “Proper Maori”. Te Pati Māori relentlessly blood shames Māori or others who don’t believe in their racial philosophies, particularly their advocacy for a separate Māori Nation. But the lady doth protest too much, me thinks. Behold Celtic Debbie, before her Monetized Māori Metamorphosis.
We’re all just Mongrel Muggles. Superb former Human Rights Commissioner Hiwi Tauroa must be turning in his grave…
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That's at the heart of New Zealand's problems - ideologically biased law enforcement and public administration
Agreed, Best to allow the likes of Debbie Ngarewa-Packer to continually reveal themselves