Is it okay for oppressed minorities to evince blatantly racist attitudes, claiming, for example, that they are “genetically superior to other groups”? But it’s even worse when the racist is a co-leader of an important political party in a Western nation. That is, of course, because the racist is Rawiri Waititi, a Māori who is co-leader of Te Pāti Māori (TPM): the Māori party in New Zealand’s House of Representatives. Now, with an election approaching on October 14, Waititi has doubled down on defending the claim that indigenous Māori are a superior race. It would be considered racist to call anything said by a Māori “racist.” That’s how far the fear has spread in New Zealand.
