Congratulations
to Corporal Bill Henry Apiata
for being awarded a Victoria Cross medal for bravery in Afghanistan!
Although I am not a great fan of racial pride, I am sure that Maoris
as a whole -- as well as his family, sub-tribe, tribe, and New Zealand
as a whole -- take pride in his achievement.
I was, however, disgusted that TV Wom, in their 6 o'clock News of 6th
July 2007, announced that Sarah Ulmer (who won a gold medal by competing
against other mere women in a mere sport) was the first to greet him
at the airport. That was obviously yet another example of stage-managing,
political manipulation and political propaganda by our feminist rulers.
They spare no effort to detract from the self-sacrifice
of men in war. Even the National War Memorial in Wellington has
a statue of a civilian woman and child, with no statue of a male or
of a soldier! It is worth pointing out that women got the vote more
than a century ago, but it is men who get conscripted to fight in wars
-- women only go if they feel like it! That is what Feminists call "equality"!
More recently, there has been yet
another furore about child abuse. This time -- following on from
the Australian government's intervention in Aborigine communities to
stop child abuse -- a lot of people have been blaming Maoris*,
which is racist.
The issue is stupidity in the use of statistics.
It is (apparently) true that there are disproportionately more Maori
than Non-Maori abusers of children, but it is racist to assume that
the cause is their race. Not only is it racist, but it creates bad feeling
between races and is likely to make Maoris defensive.
I have complained in the past about attempts to give better treatment
and more resources to Maoris in matters such as health, because this
discriminates against Non-Maoris. Using racial statistics to determine
health policy advantages Maoris, and using racial statistics to determine
the causes of child abuse disadvantages Maoris -- but both uses of statistics
are stupid and racist.
All organisations in New Zealand should be banned
from collecting statistics on race. Race -- like religion --
is just another way of dividing the population into mutually hostile
groups. Statistics on race should only be gathered where absolutely
necessary (as in determining the Maori electorate for the purposes of
determining who is entitled to vote for the Maori seats in Parliament,
which should be abolished anyway).
If we do not have racial statistics, we will be unable to target health
spending according to race, and we will be unable to blame one particular
race for child abuse. Then we will be able to look at the real causes!
We will instead be able to collect statistics on drug use, solo parenthood,
alcohol use, education levels, income levels, spending habits, diet,
and so forth. It may well be that Maoris are at the low end of the spectrum
in all these statistics, and that that has something to do with their
health and child abuse rates. But, to solve those problems, we
should not focus on their race but on the real underlying causes!
(And we should have a national policy to encourage racial intermarriage).
1 In fact, the case that received a lot of publicity
at the time in question may have involved Cook Islands Maoris, rather
than New Zealand Maoris, but other such cases have involved New Zealand
Maoris.
