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is David Seymour NZ's most dangerous man? - Lilith7 - 09-09-2023
I'd like to believe that most Kiwi's have more common sense & understanding than to vote for such things, but the ACT lot have high ratings.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/a/nz-news/350067770/david-seymour-new-zealands-most-dangerous-man-yes
"Even a left-wing partisan would admit public services providing ÔÇ£equal opportunity according to robust statistical evidence instead of racial targetingÔÇØ is enticing. Who would disagree with public services according to need as the data identifies it? The trouble for Seymour, and what a left-wing partisan might already know, is that need and race are often a function of each other.┬á
That implies high rates of heart disease are, in fact, ÔÇ£race-basedÔÇØ. The consequence of SeymourÔÇÖs needs-based standard, then, is that public health services directed at preventing and treating heart disease would arrive at the very destination Seymour wishes to avoid ÔÇô ÔÇ£raceÔÇØ.
Serious politicians understand this is why the Māori Health Authority and iwi health providers exist. 
The racist explanation for that heart disease finding is that ethnicity is the controlling factor because ÔÇô to phrase it as bluntly and stupidly as a racist would ÔÇô M─üori eat like s.... But decades worth of accumulated research finds the issue is structural.┬á[b]Across disease categories[/b][b]┬á[/b]M─üori adults and children are less likely to be referred to a specialist than non-M─üori.
[b]In the actual lives of individuals that means M─üori are more likely to die younger than P─ükeh─ü and from easily preventable disease.[/b]
ThatÔÇÖs a moral and political outrage. Is a P─ükeh─ü baby born at the same time and in the same place as a M─üori baby entitled to a statistically longer, healthier life simply because of their ethnicity and the privileges that confers in the level of diagnosis, referral and treatment?
Of course not, and the vast majority of New Zealanders would agree. But SeymourÔÇÖs ACT is committed to abolishing one of the most significant reforms to help prevent that moral and political outrage in the form of the M─üori Health Authority.
Cynical commentators might allege that ACT is pursuing abolition for electoral reasons only. They might secure the votes of the countryÔÇÖs proudest (and usually loudest) know-nothings.┬á
The trouble is Seymour often cites Article III to support the notion that ÔÇ£co-governanceÔÇØ, often in the form of institutions such as the M─üori Health Authority, confers greater rights or advantages upon M─üori.
That view collapses under the weight of even the lightest interrogation. In health, itÔÇÖs M─üori who suffer disadvantage on a population level for the simple fact of being M─üori. That disadvantage holds across other government categories too including crime. JustSpeakÔÇÖs research finds that a M─üori person apprehended for committing the same crime as a P─ükeh─ü person is┬á[b]seven times more likely to be charged[/b][b]┬á[/b]than the P─ükeh─ü person who was apprehended.
[b]Again, this is only explainable with reference to ethnicity and not criminal severity implying the issue is structural and thus only amenable to structural solutions.[/b]
Whether for reasons of political opportunism, cynicism or (charitably) genuine belief ACTÔÇÖs policies reject this evidence for fairy tales of policy independent of ethnicity. That belief in the magical might make David Seymour the most dangerous man in New Zealand politics."
Morgan Godfrey.
RE: is David Seymour NZ's most dangerous man? - Zurdo - 14-09-2023
![[Image: image.png.6baa92cb3462244e3a9994fb1d5baf26.png]](https://oldschool.co.nz/uploads/monthly_2023_09/image.png.6baa92cb3462244e3a9994fb1d5baf26.png)
RE: is David Seymour NZ's most dangerous man? - Lilith7 - 14-09-2023
(14-09-2023, 07:15 PM)Zurdo Wrote:
Bit of an improvement - which apparently David Seymour approves of.