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Realtor Janet Dickson's refusal to learn Māori values goes to court (www.rnz.co.nz)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is such a strange thing to require someone to know, especially when she doesn't deal with Maori land, and all sale is the same legally regardless of the ethnicity of the buyer. And the justification given for making this mandatory is incredibly tenuous, in my view.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"He said believed "this law is nothing but an attempt to drive a particular worldview that is not the view of the majority of New Zealanders".

"We don't want a particular view of the world forced on anybody."

No one's forcing anyone to subscribe to a new or different worldview, what the government is doing is making sure those who deal in the sale of land and buildings are AWARE of other peoples worldviews as to be sensitive to them, which on it's face, given it takes 1.5 hours to complete, is a perfectly reasonable ask

This woman should have her license suspended for 5 years, and take that time to consider whether or not that hour and a half would have been worth the virtue signaling and loss of active employment, god knows the Maori have had to endure far worse for far longer with nothing but pain to show for it

[–] elbarto777 1 points 5 months ago

which on its* face

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago

Its not reasonable because Maori worldview is pretty normal to anyone in nz. Maybe it differs if you are buying and selling maori land since there might be ritual customs but she isn't. Maori are normal people and no one treats them any different except our racist government who treat them like they've just discovered a new species.