Complaint about Regulations making tikanga compulsory for law students.
Regulation Review Committee reported this morning
Here is a link to the Committee’s report. The complaint was partly successful but is generally a disappointing failure of the National Party majority to stand up for law students’ rights to freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief. As expected, the Labour Party minority would have dismissed the complaint entirely. I shall provide fuller commentary later.
Gary, very many thanks for pursuing this emergent problem so diligently. So difficult when you (we) are up against a bunch of decolonisation fanatics at all levels including judges, who clearly want to resurrect a legacy culture, supported directly or indirectly by a Government, certainly a PM and others, all of whom appear to have lost the capacity for critical thinking when it comes to such matters or have overriding ideological attachments apparently to Critical Race Theory and associated Maori victimhood.
For what it's worth you very much have my support.
I look forward to hearing more and hopefully then understanding just what this all means. Seems sadly like a technical win but a practical loss? My read thus far is that those on this committee, and by empowerment thereof, the National cabinet, are a pack of woke wimps, too afraid to stand up for freedom from indoctrination. For despite the assurances, this is what the course is all about. "Students may dissent with the course". Yeah bloody right. Try that and see what grade you get.
The Williams citation in the report regarding 'decolonisation' of law says it all. Decolonisation equals 'tribal empowerment'. Putting aside my own obvious bias here, why the actual fuck would anyone want to replace an amazing, functional and resilient system that has proven to provide the greatest quality of life in human history, with an outdated, terribly vague and completely dysfunctional model. There is no answer to this other than that the tribal elite seek power and this is how they get it.
Kudos to you once again Gary, you have principles and genius, and we are indebted to you.