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Also what you'll notice is that they put a LOT of weight behind polls and referendum, the kind of "opinion data" that suits his form of communication. But conveniently omits the intellectual, nuanced, record-breaking hiding that the TPB received at Select Committee.

Yeah and Geoff Neale is behind TheFacts. He's got a market research background and uses data visualisation to amplify cherry picked data, with his strong skills in data visualisation to do a lot of heavy lifting for his interpretations.

"Let’s get a few facts straight about this. The haka happened when all votes had been cast, and it accompanied the vote of Te Pāti Māori, who were the last to vote. It was part of the vote of Te Pāti Māori."

Oh totally. I'm just trying to point this out without explicitly saying it. There are fragile people who will ignore a whole argument on the basis of a "bad word" no matter how much it punctuates the point.

Here's what I'm on about:

e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

Assimilation into a single language and way of thinking is a manifestation of thinking that other humans are not human.

Also, to me, she's claiming to prevent indoctrination by asserting her own version of it - which completely lacks diversity of thought, language, or perspective.

To be human is to be able to celebrate our diversity. Because we can. We have the ability to do that. We have the ability to WRITE and READ about that.

Is Rata arguing that Māori authors and story tellers are of low quality because they don't "capture what it is to be human"

Think about that. Think about what you have to imagine or believe to be true in order for that to be a rationale idea.