Open Racism in New Zealand, and ‘On the Buses’

The video says it all. A neighbour complained about noise disturbing her daughter, this is the reaction she got.

“This is my country, I’m BORN here..they should all go home”

Small towns, small minds. Even in Wellington.

This one was filmed on the Naenae bus (Lower Hutt, Wellington) loaded to YouTube yesterday by Transport New Zealand, video by Yaser Tony

 

10 thoughts on “Open Racism in New Zealand, and ‘On the Buses’

  1. This secret video vigilantism is contemptible and is just another symptom of NZ’s fraying social cohesion. Abusive behaviour isn’t excusable, but you can’t blame ordinary New Zealanders for feeling frustrated with all these new arrivals who bring their strange ways and different values from their crowded, hyper-competitive Third World countries and the UK. The people of NZ never invited them. The NZ government has done that. “Why?”, you ask. Skills shortages?, Labour shortages? To make a bigger tax base for the government? No. The government is determined to displace or drastically dilute the host culture. It’s called multiculturalism. Diversity= GOOD! White Anglo-Saxon = BAD/RACIST! The same grand social experiment is going on in all the English speaking countries and northern Europe and it’s failing. The much touted benefits of all this immigration from alien cultures and societies are not obvious, but the downsides are all too visible. Time to wake up folks. The government is not on your side.

    • but you can’t blame ordinary New Zealanders for feeling frustrated with all these new arrivals who bring their strange ways and different values from their crowded, hyper-competitive Third World countries and the UK.
      Are these the same New Zealanders who are making money selling them goods and services?
      Are these the same New Zealanders who require professional services, but cannot find the people with the right qualifications as the majority of first year university students drop out, and the locals that get through, find they can be paid more overseas and leave – thus, they try to get immigrant professionals but downplay their qualifications — even the ones completely earned in New Zealand universities?

      The people of NZ never invited them.
      Funny, New Zealanders are working overseas where the people of those countries didn’t invite them either: governments grant those passes.

      The government is determined to displace or drastically dilute the host culture. It’s called multiculturalism. Diversity= GOOD! White Anglo-Saxon = BAD/RACIST!
      The same people who talk like this, complain about how China/Japan/Korea is BAD/RACIST. (They do enjoy their white privilege though, e.g. being a Native English Speaker (LOL, without a commensurate qualification)) Pot, meet kettle.

      The same grand social experiment is going on in all the English speaking countries and northern Europe and it’s failing. The much touted benefits of all this immigration from alien cultures and societies are not obvious, but the downsides are all too visible
      Cultures try to lure qualified people in, also when their fertility levels drop.
      On the flip side, this leads to a “man shortage”, like New Zealand is going through.
      An unpalatable finding is that “too many visas have been granted for Asian females” in NZ.
      The question you should be asking yourself, is …
      is a culture “alien” only when the members who can’t be paired off easily to the locals, are visible?
      Because in the same space of “alien culture”, are the terms “racist hate” AND “racist love”.

      P.S. Video vigilantism also protects you against bad governments besides bad people. If someone is brave enough to act the fool, they should “own their foolishness”. Maybe that will encourage others to embrace their inner fool, and thus help people avoid the fools – making for a more enlightened society.

  2. The 2 videos shown above are absolutely horrible but unfortunately its only the tip of the iceberg. i went to watch the cricket world cup semifinal between NZ and South Africa and there were 4 Kiwi knobheads who kept on racially abusing South African and Indians for a period of about 5 hours till they were finally kicked out of the stadium. Its a sad state of affairs as no one intervened and in fact Kiwis in the crowd were ignorant and smiling their way away through the game as these 4 illiterate, narrow minded disgusting Kiwis continued their racist rants. I had to step in and give them back a mouthful or else they would have continued. This is not the first time I have encountered such a thing at Eden park. The last time The English team were here I have heard the most attrocious and horrible racist by of course unsporty Kiwis who display their fake pride and abuse all nationalities possible.

    • People must exhibit such foolishness. “He who does not condemn evil … commands it to be done” – Leonardo Da Vinci.
      The sad thing is management may step in to say “we want to stop people illegally filming our matches” … even while your camera is facing the crowds and not the playing field.
      Along with “I’m entitled to my privacy (while abusing others)”.

  3. Nice little change, the police took initiative and arrested a 66 year old.
    (That’s why I LOL at that idea of “automatically respect your elders”).
    Social media definitely made this case harder to ignore.
    Shame early, shame often!

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11424952
    Man arrested over racist rant on Wellington bus
    5:20 PM Sunday Mar 29, 2015
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    Lower Hutt
    Wellington Region

    Warning: Video contains strong language

    A Lower Hutt man has been arrested after a video of a racist rant on a Wellington bus against two young men who appeared to be Muslim was published online.

    The incident happened on an NZ Bus in the Lower Hutt suburb of Naenae on Wednesday morning.

    The footage, shot by an Iraqi Muslim woman sitting behind the man, shows the man calling out to the pair and accusing them of being “Islam c***s” and “shooting innocent people”.

    “Go back to your own country,” he said.

    One woman on the bus stood up for the young men and called out “welcome to New Zealand” to them before telling the man to behave himself.

    The man then repeatedly told the woman to “shut your mouth up b****”.

    Police today said they had identified and arrested a 66-year-old Lower Hutt man in relation to the incident.

    The man will appear in Hutt Valley District Court on Tuesday where he will face charges in relation to the incident.

    Hutt Valley police area commander Inspector Sean Hansen said he wanted to acknowledge and thank members of the local community who provided information that helped to identify the man.

    NZ Bus spokeswoman Tonia Haskell last week said the company was investigating the incident.

    The video has been viewed more than 69,000 times since it was posted on Wednesday.

  4. sadly very typical of the provincial minds of many Kiwi’s. They have been a minority for many years, sadly however with the current political culture- right wing blamers- become all to prevalent.
    I’ve watched over the last 10 years this once fair and welcoming society turn into a bunch of whingers, moaners and blamers. Everything in the world is someone else’s fault and or responsibility and they can do no wrong.

  5. OMG some people just cannot live in peace and harmony! Shame on you for behaving disgustingly, you cast a shade on the whole of our country for your nasty attitude.

  6. This kind of behaviour is not acceptable, was this guy arrested and charged. Read the history book , whose country is New Zealand . If police doesnot take action against these people then God help New Zealand. If someone did this to me I will not spare that person, knowing that police are not protecting innocent citizens from these yobs.
    Any one suffering abuse like this should collectively get together and punish these people since police are not protecting you.
    These are terrorist abusing citizens and should be treated as such.
    I would like to know if police have taken any action.
    I am a law abiding citizen and like to remain that way, but not at a cost when some one abuse me or my family, then I will see what police does to me. I think enforcing law is vital to put these people down in the place where they will think twice to behave like this.

    • Short of a complaint being filed to the police, not much will be done.
      Besides, when a complaint gets filed to the police — the complainant becomes known.
      Bad news for them if they are an employee, as their superiors might take the increased police interest (and possible intrusion into their work hours to verify details or be present at interviews) as … a good excuse to “let go” of that person.

      Not only that, in NZ there is this funny idea that “if you speak up against racism — YOU are RACIST” (of course, logic doesn’t work for everyone since upbringing is different for different people).

      The best thing to do is keep the video alive on youtube or other media sites.
      That will at least constrain the employment opportunities of such yobs and yobettes.
      (Adria Richards was handled in a similar way, both by public disapproval AND action from the Anonymous group).

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