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The Dominion or the Dividers: The Māori Elite and Their Colonial Inversion

The Dominion or the Dividers: The Māori Elite and Their Colonial Inversion

How an insular cabal of activist-aristocrats is using grievance politics, legislative capture, and cultural deception to undermine New Zealand’s sovereignty, democracy, and racial unity

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Jun 09, 2025
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I. The New Oligarchy: Not a Tribe but a Class

There is a persistent myth, cultivated in the lecture halls of ivory-towered universities and parroted by media courtiers, that Māori political ascendancy is the flowering of an oppressed culture reclaiming its due. In fact, it is nothing of the sort. What we are witnessing is not cultural revival but class formation - the rise of a Māori elite that operates not in flax cloaks and whakapapa but in boardrooms, legal chambers and bureaucratic backdoors.

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