{"id":7237,"date":"2015-08-05T09:22:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T20:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=7237"},"modified":"2015-08-05T09:54:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T20:54:48","slug":"vitriolic-hatred-of-maori-language-month-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=7237","title":{"rendered":"Vitriolic hatred of M\u0101ori language month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\" alt=\"avatr\" width=\"70\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/maorilanguagemonth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7206\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/maorilanguagemonth.jpg\" alt=\"maorilanguagemonth\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/maorilanguagemonth.jpg 900w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/maorilanguagemonth-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/maorilanguagemonth-570x380.jpg 570w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/maorilanguagemonth-701x467.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Students at Waiuku College suggested a month of Maori language week the intolerance\u00a0in New Zealand society has reared its ugly head.<\/p>\n<p>In the comments below J Subz\u00a0comment wants a democratic vote on Maori language. Before the arrival of English speaking British colonists the Maori language was democratically the only language in Aotearoa New Zealand. It was a lack of democracy that suppressed the language for the dominant British hegemony.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Miller wants uppity Maori to get back in their box of 2nd class citizenry with this comment\u00a0<em>&#8220;New Zealand as it was in the 1950&#8217;s when the &#8220;Murri&#8221; knew their place&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kowtow is demanding\u00a0Maori taxpayers money is not wasted\u00a0on Maori initiatives like the Waitangi tribunal and Maori language week. Probably because in his mind Maori don&#8217;t pay taxes.<\/p>\n<p>These comments\u00a0coming from the National Party&#8217;s\u00a0Kiwi\u00a0blog reinforces the National governments low tolerance of Maori language. It&#8217;s difficult to believe the Prime minister genuinely supports Maori language week when behind the scenes his supporters\u00a0perceive the language as worthless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/TheHatredofMaoriLanguage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7243\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/TheHatredofMaoriLanguage-733x1024.jpg\" alt=\"TheHatredofMaoriLanguage\" width=\"733\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/TheHatredofMaoriLanguage-733x1024.jpg 733w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/TheHatredofMaoriLanguage-215x300.jpg 215w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/TheHatredofMaoriLanguage-570x796.jpg 570w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/TheHatredofMaoriLanguage-701x980.jpg 701w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/TheHatredofMaoriLanguage.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder After Students at Waiuku College suggested a month of Maori language week the intolerance\u00a0in New Zealand society has reared its ugly head. In the comments below J Subz\u00a0comment wants a democratic vote on Maori language. Before the arrival of English speaking British colonists the Maori language was democratically the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7244,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions\/7244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}