LINDSAY MITCHELL: Colonisation blamed for Maori Meth use
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Here is yet another example of a taxpayer-funded health professional teaching that self-destructive behaviour by Maori is the fault of colonisation: land dispossession, loss of language, attack on family structures, attack on belief systems etc.
The above slide is part of a presentation from Oranga Tamariki Team leader Psychology, Health and Clinical Services. It was published in April this year.
Given it's Maori gangs - Mongrel Mob and Black Power - predominantly selling the drug, it's to be assumed they too are doing so due to the ravages of colonisation.
There is no end to what can be explained and excused under this lazy, pathetic and repetitive 'modelling'.
But what about the vast majority of Maori who do not use meth? Wouldn't it be far more useful to examine what creates resilience and success, and strive to emulate the values and upbringings that contribute to the positive outcomes most Maori experience?
The past cannot be undone. We only have the future.
This pervasive apologism practised by supposedly 'educated experts' serves society very poorly. It's the thrust of a western movement that pimps indigeneity for all its worth.
If people are told that it isn't their fault they are using methamphetamine, how do they take the ownership needed to stop?
I think if you focused on non part Māori in the lower socioeconomic group you would come up with the same results .
It seems they only want to focus on part Māori as if they are the only ones with problems .
As several others have commented they completely ignore that it is their Māori gangs that are feeding the problem .
More Marxist apothenia, this time used in an errantly flawed explanation of causation. The apothenic paradigm is not conducive to being a proper intellectual strategy to analyse real world problems. It is the fitting of a racist polticisation to a cause. Non Maori use of meth is not considered, which is likely to be the majority of users and epidemiologically correct for the whole population of users.
Blaming colonisation is not only lazy and shows a complete lack of exploring the overwhelming benefits of colonisation, but it is also a contradiction in terms as Colonisation has not compelled Maori to do any of these bad things. On the contrary, colonisation has allowed Maori many freedoms and benefits which they can choose to participate in. the author is unaware that in blaming colonisation they are implying Maori need to be forced to behave and are unable to make good decisions when they have the freedom to do so?
NZ needs a significant structural reform removing this new religion, its practices and adherents from all public sector.
What a complete waste of taxpayer time and money this OT Team Leader's 'presentation' is. Talk about reinventing the wheel! Compare and contrast their pathetic, visually unimaginative, intellectually narrow-minded rendition of a very specific issue versus the vastly more readily identifiable real-world depiction of the more expansive, indeed, 'all-encompassing' wider problem that is so succinctly, self-explanatorily, and artistically crystallised by the (very sadly) late, great, Garrick Tremain.
And this sterling effort disseminated to the wider public audience at no cost to the hapless taxpayer.
Of course, I believe we can forgive Mr Tremain in taking the liberty of presenting his thesis in colonist's "English" - thus ensuring its wider understanding and appreciation.
Those nasty colonisers - plying moari with loads of money to fuel their meth use...