OPINION
Many of us have been highly entertained during the last couple of days by the story (which nobody in WA cares about, by the way; it’s not trending out there) of a Maori with facial tattoos being refused service in a Perth pub. The outrage on TV1 and RNZ has had me in stitches. Their solution to this problem? Education! That’s right, folks: self-important left-wingers want to ‘educate’ the Australian population on the error of their ways.
The line which is currently being run to the rest of the world is, ‘Oh, we are a Maori nation. The real name is Aotearoa, but there’s still a few people dotted around who speak English.’ An Orwellian humbug of breathtaking proportions that gets constantly reinforced by our embassies and others around the world. Even our (soon to be ejected before the quarter finals) All Black team in France are running this twaddle, apparently, confusing Pommy rugby commentators by speaking all sorts of imaginary pidgin words nobody understands.
Unless I am mistaken, it’s all part of the Maori Colonisation package – with them doing the colonising. Having claimed that primitive witch-doctor spells constitute ‘science’ and that they are the sole culture and language of New Zealand, they now want to export this Maori hegemony to the world and insist the world bow down to them as Kiwis have done.
Knowing New South Wales as I do, it is certainly being a bit ‘optimistic’. As I wrote in a previous essay, in my experience, few New Zealanders are successful in Sydney mainly because they think the casual ‘kia ora bro’ and childish abbreviations to appear ‘hip’ – such as saying ‘t sauce’ – impresses people. It certainly doesn’t in Sydney, where businessmen find their New Zealand employees embarrassing and gauche. Accordingly, the notion that Maori are going to make any impact across the Tasman is preposterous.
The Sydney eastern suburbs crowd love to pretend they are ‘liberals’ and champion everything from global warming to the Voice – I fully expect the Wentworth electorate to dutifully vote 90 per cent “Yes” (‘see how progressive we are?’) for the Voice – but the reality is they prefer it if certain types of people are more theoretical than, you know, moving in next door. In the same way woke parents in Wadestown and Mt Albert don’t really refer to their offspring as ‘tamariki’ when no one is looking, people in Bondi and Vaucluse don’t know any Aboriginal words, nor expect to see any as they walk down the street. It upsets their sensibilities.
So imagine their reaction to some well-built, facially tattooed Maori chap walking towards them and saying ‘kia ora missus’, let alone someone like that in their favourite watering hole, and who expects them to be culturally sensitive towards Maori!
But one of the great elephants in the room regarding Maori plans for world colonisation, which appears to have crash landed in a Perth pub, is that – like in NZ – nobody abroad has any particular respect for Maori people. In other countries they know about the welfare bludging, the gangs and the thuggishness. It is just that Australians are happy to openly say they don’t want Maori to do to Sydney what they’ve done to Kaikohe or Wairoa or Aranui. It’s much the same in England, where most Maori keep their heads down and behave.