The universities have been woke brainwashing institutions for decades. It will likely to get much much worse before it gets better. The pendulum swings and it's either swinging off a cliff or it's coming back in the other direction.
The universities have been sleep walking into a well funded (by Tories and Republicans too) political campaign by Stonewall and others. The campaingn locks institutions into 'diversity champions' and they receive funding for doing well. The pendulum is being deliberately pushed this way, because the swing back, which has already begun, will have such momentum and power is will sweep away free speech, feminism, gay rights and racial tolerance with it.
Is it possible, with a straight face, ask your supervisor where on the hierarchy of oppressed do the Māori land: above or below someone who is mentally retarded(points for me in NOT defining the person as retarded, ie, “retarded person”. Pat on the back)
Yeah large partes of the world are going full on imbecile. But I'm convinced there's still based parts of the world resolved to resist as best they could.
We must never give up hope, that said I'm sorry for your suffering good sir. Stay strong, hopefully the time will come when you will be able to take command of your own destiny.
What we call progressives are actually deeply parochial and regressive. I have no hope that we can have a forward thinking and liberal society in my lifetime
The foisting of superstition onto the scientific process and then integrating that into clinical practice under the subterfuge of cultural sensitivity has truly disheartened me.
Having grown up in Wellington myself, I noticed early on that this kind of thing was taking hold. There were always jokes among smarter folk about the Maori grifting class, but the university grads who got a BA were always uppity about this nonsense, and now it's become such a grift that Maori people -- some of my best friends while going up, by the way -- are a class unto themselves. You are literally a second class citizen as "Pākehā" in NZ (Pākehā is the Maori word for white man, I believe).
It's because the colonial "guilt" was accepted so long ago, I think. Once you admit to someone who'll take advantage of you that they are right, they'll keep pushing and pushing -- just look at all the .govt.nz websites these days, they all put their Maori names first.
The news, too, is awful. Elites and art students who imagine themselves at trendy cocktail parties in Auckland want to fit in, so they all act like knowing the Maori language is a given; and really, I'm afraid very few people know the language, I believe most Maoris don't (even after them pushing it for so long). I was always of a mind to say "This is New Zealand, people speak English here. Stop cramming Maori into everything cause of colonial guilt, thanks."
While Hungary is a far cry from the beauty and prosperity of NZ in a general sense, I really don't miss the neverending racial grifting going on there, especially because if you talk to anyone about it you're deemed a racist who should never get a job in NZ ever again. It's absurd.
All in all, a very illuminating article. I'm glad to see another Kiwi on here, especially with fine analysis. Very worrying indeed how far all this nonsense has gone. When you write it into the law, things truly get perverse.
You're right about the colonial guilt. It has become a status symbol to signal how much you are 'guilty'.
You're right, very few Maoris know the language. Like any other language, learning it is a hobby; and most people would rather do something else than learn an effectively defunct language, whatever their race.
That's fascinating. Hungary. My brother has long talked of going there. Maybe another kiwi will join you down the road.
It's a shame, honestly, because NZ is a beautiful country full of fantastic people. Before all this nonsense, I honestly think we had a genuinely flourishing multicultural society where everyone was bought in on a universal project that made sense. That project was and still is distinctly Kiwi; strangely, I'd say the TV series "Outrageous Fortune" -- which you're unlikely to have not watched if you're a Kiwi -- encapsulates that culture well. It's beautiful and open-minded, understated yet mischievous; it does not trust authority but it does trust "the bros." I was and am still proud to be part of that Kiwi culture -- it's not about race.
It's a kind of no-nonsense, down-to-earth, "she'll be right, mate", adventuring mindset, and it is made manifest in a multitude of peoples all of whom characterized a unified New Zealand.
Maybe it's just in my head -- maybe I'm just out of touch -- but it feels like something of that has been lost. All of it has been thrown away for a kind of American-minded politics of racial grifting, not unity. It's ironic, really, because most Kiwis don't have that much time for Americanisms.
It's like they're willing to reject all the silly nonsense out of America except for the most egregiously divisive ideologies based entirely on grievance.
But now I'm just ranting!
Hungary is a nice country; it has it's problems, but it is *nice*. You just want to be making "global money" rather than Hungarian money -- salaries are very low here.
Always happy to have a beer with a fellow Kiwi if your brother (or you) make it here! There's certainly a lot to be shown here -- bloody oath, mate. I mean, the women, for one... :) Very happy my son has a wonderful Hungarian mother.
It's funny you mention this loss of identity. I have for a while bemoaned privately the same thing, and have thought about writing about it.
Beside from the odd sports game, I feel a lack of pride in my nation. That the things we use to use to describe our peoples, 'number 8 wire' and ingenuity, DIY, and as you said, the bros and 'she'll be right', have been replaced by this cucked managerial elitism and softism. As an ambitious man, I understand why many are leaving our shores for more exciting opportunities in Australia and elsewhere.
Obviously, it leaves one to turn inward, and focus (as maybe they should) on their family and their friends, localising at the community level. Given I live in the deep South, Dunedin and Central Otago, I have pride in the beauty and aspirations in these places and have wondered about a future dislocation from the North Island. NZ identity may be able to salvaged, but something needs to change.
Haha thank you. Yes, my brother does make global money, as it were, and it's funny you mention the women - it was one of his reasons.
In light of what you have shown here, is it really worthwhile for you to continue to pursue this degree? How could it possibly benefit you? A is A. And you are not the type to ever accept that it is not.
Ahhh well. You put on your finger on my weekly thoughts. The plan as of now is to continue without restricting my speech and who I am. If I can complete it doing so, that is great; if not, well, that's the path set out for me and I'll be better for it.
Don’t let them brainwash you. I am finalizing the manuscript. When you read it, you will see my concerns. Wishing you the best and stay safe. (I saw a news item that said China has ships surrounding Australia in some kind of war exercises, and New Zealand isn’t that far away.)
Thank you. Yeah, I've been able to resist the washing of brain so far, so I should be alright. That's great to hear about the manuscript. And hopefully it is nothing too major to do with China.
So, if I go somewhat crazy trying to understand and deal with all this woke political rubbish, being a white woman, I have no hope in actually getting a prompt appointment for my transitional mental health issues. The Maori activist-led folks, that are responsible for my crazed thinking, will be seen before me?
To be fair, the waitlists are so long, that everybody has to wait. What I fear is that ethnic categories are used as a filtering system, rather than 'severity', for instance. So you may be - I have no clear evidence on this yet - pushed backward along the waitlist because of your ethnicity. However, if you were willing to go private (and pay heaps) you'd get seen earlier most likely, but even then, psychologists are allowed to pick and choose their own clients.
Prioritization based on demographic identity categories has been the norm in the realm of arts nonprofits for years.
If they can get away with it the people pushing this stuff will eventually systematically prioritize favored demographic groups over others in any field in which they establish a critical mass.
This chilling, sinister and utter rubbish is certainly not helping the mental health of the rest of us that's for sure. So sickening that you are forced to adopt this if you wish to practice...and probably be some actual use in the system. I am so very sorry and wish you all the very best.
Thank you reading, commenting, and your sympathy. I hope in exposing this (we need other psychologists coming out, too), the excesses will be eradicated and people like me will go onto to practice with ethnicity not being forefront of mind.
Thank you for sharing this perspective. It was really interesting. Do you think that there's any hope for your country? In the United States we are wondering collectively if this woke toxic sludge can be resolved politically. There are some very real public conversations happening. These people are collectively insane and I don't know how we walk them back from the precipice.
I am not sure, honestly. In many ways, given we were birthed from the United Kingdom and are not a Republic like the US, we follow in the UK's footsteps - and what is going on there is a nightmare, so I am not that confident. Look into South Africa and what's happened there if you want to see an end-game version of woke. It is ... well, a horror film.
Even so, there are still really healthy parts of our country - esp. the South Island, where I live. There are whispers of a breakaway from the North - I don't know if that will ever happen but it's a thought.
They, the Australian Psychology Board are, bringing something startlingly similar in to Australia. Almost a copy and paste with the specifics to our own country.
It's a faction, not a tension. You've gotta realize that. The tension is caused intentionally, and it waxes and wanes as is practical. I don't normally recommend reading leftist theory, but I think you should read at least a couple essays on here that promote it.
No I have not - but I've just searched it up. It looks really interesting, thank you. I particularly like the term 'symbolic capitalists' and the concept of intensified status games in an economic downturn. Makes sense.
Yes, I agree with James Lindsay about the 'takeover' aspect. In fact, he toured New Zealand recently - a welcome tonic for our academic institutions. Whether they listen, however, is a different thing.
The universities have been woke brainwashing institutions for decades. It will likely to get much much worse before it gets better. The pendulum swings and it's either swinging off a cliff or it's coming back in the other direction.
That's a good way to put it - the pendulum possibly swinging off the cliff. It is likely large amounts of the field are too far gone.
No. They are deliberately rolling the ball up the hill (to change metaphors) to the top for the maximum strength and velocity coming back down.
The universities have been sleep walking into a well funded (by Tories and Republicans too) political campaign by Stonewall and others. The campaingn locks institutions into 'diversity champions' and they receive funding for doing well. The pendulum is being deliberately pushed this way, because the swing back, which has already begun, will have such momentum and power is will sweep away free speech, feminism, gay rights and racial tolerance with it.
Is it possible, with a straight face, ask your supervisor where on the hierarchy of oppressed do the Māori land: above or below someone who is mentally retarded(points for me in NOT defining the person as retarded, ie, “retarded person”. Pat on the back)
Yeah large partes of the world are going full on imbecile. But I'm convinced there's still based parts of the world resolved to resist as best they could.
We must never give up hope, that said I'm sorry for your suffering good sir. Stay strong, hopefully the time will come when you will be able to take command of your own destiny.
Hahah that first sentence cracked me up. I agree wholeheartedly with the second.
Thank you and you are right. They want us to give up hope, in particular. Without hope one needn't control agency because one is without it.
Yep, and to pray is to hope and so if we keep praying, keep hoping we will overcome them.
What we call progressives are actually deeply parochial and regressive. I have no hope that we can have a forward thinking and liberal society in my lifetime
Please see my writing at my Substack, "You People".
Don’t comply.
The foisting of superstition onto the scientific process and then integrating that into clinical practice under the subterfuge of cultural sensitivity has truly disheartened me.
Having grown up in Wellington myself, I noticed early on that this kind of thing was taking hold. There were always jokes among smarter folk about the Maori grifting class, but the university grads who got a BA were always uppity about this nonsense, and now it's become such a grift that Maori people -- some of my best friends while going up, by the way -- are a class unto themselves. You are literally a second class citizen as "Pākehā" in NZ (Pākehā is the Maori word for white man, I believe).
It's because the colonial "guilt" was accepted so long ago, I think. Once you admit to someone who'll take advantage of you that they are right, they'll keep pushing and pushing -- just look at all the .govt.nz websites these days, they all put their Maori names first.
The news, too, is awful. Elites and art students who imagine themselves at trendy cocktail parties in Auckland want to fit in, so they all act like knowing the Maori language is a given; and really, I'm afraid very few people know the language, I believe most Maoris don't (even after them pushing it for so long). I was always of a mind to say "This is New Zealand, people speak English here. Stop cramming Maori into everything cause of colonial guilt, thanks."
While Hungary is a far cry from the beauty and prosperity of NZ in a general sense, I really don't miss the neverending racial grifting going on there, especially because if you talk to anyone about it you're deemed a racist who should never get a job in NZ ever again. It's absurd.
All in all, a very illuminating article. I'm glad to see another Kiwi on here, especially with fine analysis. Very worrying indeed how far all this nonsense has gone. When you write it into the law, things truly get perverse.
Thank you for reading and commenting.
You're right about the colonial guilt. It has become a status symbol to signal how much you are 'guilty'.
You're right, very few Maoris know the language. Like any other language, learning it is a hobby; and most people would rather do something else than learn an effectively defunct language, whatever their race.
That's fascinating. Hungary. My brother has long talked of going there. Maybe another kiwi will join you down the road.
It's a shame, honestly, because NZ is a beautiful country full of fantastic people. Before all this nonsense, I honestly think we had a genuinely flourishing multicultural society where everyone was bought in on a universal project that made sense. That project was and still is distinctly Kiwi; strangely, I'd say the TV series "Outrageous Fortune" -- which you're unlikely to have not watched if you're a Kiwi -- encapsulates that culture well. It's beautiful and open-minded, understated yet mischievous; it does not trust authority but it does trust "the bros." I was and am still proud to be part of that Kiwi culture -- it's not about race.
It's a kind of no-nonsense, down-to-earth, "she'll be right, mate", adventuring mindset, and it is made manifest in a multitude of peoples all of whom characterized a unified New Zealand.
Maybe it's just in my head -- maybe I'm just out of touch -- but it feels like something of that has been lost. All of it has been thrown away for a kind of American-minded politics of racial grifting, not unity. It's ironic, really, because most Kiwis don't have that much time for Americanisms.
It's like they're willing to reject all the silly nonsense out of America except for the most egregiously divisive ideologies based entirely on grievance.
But now I'm just ranting!
Hungary is a nice country; it has it's problems, but it is *nice*. You just want to be making "global money" rather than Hungarian money -- salaries are very low here.
Always happy to have a beer with a fellow Kiwi if your brother (or you) make it here! There's certainly a lot to be shown here -- bloody oath, mate. I mean, the women, for one... :) Very happy my son has a wonderful Hungarian mother.
It's funny you mention this loss of identity. I have for a while bemoaned privately the same thing, and have thought about writing about it.
Beside from the odd sports game, I feel a lack of pride in my nation. That the things we use to use to describe our peoples, 'number 8 wire' and ingenuity, DIY, and as you said, the bros and 'she'll be right', have been replaced by this cucked managerial elitism and softism. As an ambitious man, I understand why many are leaving our shores for more exciting opportunities in Australia and elsewhere.
Obviously, it leaves one to turn inward, and focus (as maybe they should) on their family and their friends, localising at the community level. Given I live in the deep South, Dunedin and Central Otago, I have pride in the beauty and aspirations in these places and have wondered about a future dislocation from the North Island. NZ identity may be able to salvaged, but something needs to change.
Haha thank you. Yes, my brother does make global money, as it were, and it's funny you mention the women - it was one of his reasons.
In light of what you have shown here, is it really worthwhile for you to continue to pursue this degree? How could it possibly benefit you? A is A. And you are not the type to ever accept that it is not.
Ahhh well. You put on your finger on my weekly thoughts. The plan as of now is to continue without restricting my speech and who I am. If I can complete it doing so, that is great; if not, well, that's the path set out for me and I'll be better for it.
Don’t let them brainwash you. I am finalizing the manuscript. When you read it, you will see my concerns. Wishing you the best and stay safe. (I saw a news item that said China has ships surrounding Australia in some kind of war exercises, and New Zealand isn’t that far away.)
Thank you. Yeah, I've been able to resist the washing of brain so far, so I should be alright. That's great to hear about the manuscript. And hopefully it is nothing too major to do with China.
So, if I go somewhat crazy trying to understand and deal with all this woke political rubbish, being a white woman, I have no hope in actually getting a prompt appointment for my transitional mental health issues. The Maori activist-led folks, that are responsible for my crazed thinking, will be seen before me?
To be fair, the waitlists are so long, that everybody has to wait. What I fear is that ethnic categories are used as a filtering system, rather than 'severity', for instance. So you may be - I have no clear evidence on this yet - pushed backward along the waitlist because of your ethnicity. However, if you were willing to go private (and pay heaps) you'd get seen earlier most likely, but even then, psychologists are allowed to pick and choose their own clients.
Prioritization based on demographic identity categories has been the norm in the realm of arts nonprofits for years.
If they can get away with it the people pushing this stuff will eventually systematically prioritize favored demographic groups over others in any field in which they establish a critical mass.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cinematimshel/p/ideologically-out-of-line-and-insufficiently?r=16t7t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
This chilling, sinister and utter rubbish is certainly not helping the mental health of the rest of us that's for sure. So sickening that you are forced to adopt this if you wish to practice...and probably be some actual use in the system. I am so very sorry and wish you all the very best.
Thank you reading, commenting, and your sympathy. I hope in exposing this (we need other psychologists coming out, too), the excesses will be eradicated and people like me will go onto to practice with ethnicity not being forefront of mind.
It’s just the biggest flames before the fire gets put out….
Thank you for sharing this perspective. It was really interesting. Do you think that there's any hope for your country? In the United States we are wondering collectively if this woke toxic sludge can be resolved politically. There are some very real public conversations happening. These people are collectively insane and I don't know how we walk them back from the precipice.
Thank you for reading and commenting.
I am not sure, honestly. In many ways, given we were birthed from the United Kingdom and are not a Republic like the US, we follow in the UK's footsteps - and what is going on there is a nightmare, so I am not that confident. Look into South Africa and what's happened there if you want to see an end-game version of woke. It is ... well, a horror film.
Even so, there are still really healthy parts of our country - esp. the South Island, where I live. There are whispers of a breakaway from the North - I don't know if that will ever happen but it's a thought.
Do you think Vance is a necessity next election?
They, the Australian Psychology Board are, bringing something startlingly similar in to Australia. Almost a copy and paste with the specifics to our own country.
I’m not surprised but that’s a shame.
People have been saying "the new political correctness is over" since 2015.
People need to distinguish "final victory" from "finally getting to take a single breath as your opponent winds up again." This denial is not helping.
No, it's not over. But I think there will a climax soon. The swing back won't be pretty either.
It's a faction, not a tension. You've gotta realize that. The tension is caused intentionally, and it waxes and wanes as is practical. I don't normally recommend reading leftist theory, but I think you should read at least a couple essays on here that promote it.
Have you read We Have Never Been Woke by Musa Al-Garbi? It's about woke culture in American academia, very interesting.
No I have not - but I've just searched it up. It looks really interesting, thank you. I particularly like the term 'symbolic capitalists' and the concept of intensified status games in an economic downturn. Makes sense.
I suggest you visit the newdiscourses.com website. What you are witnessing is the communist takeover of your profession.
Yes, I agree with James Lindsay about the 'takeover' aspect. In fact, he toured New Zealand recently - a welcome tonic for our academic institutions. Whether they listen, however, is a different thing.