June 29, 2020
Smith given pass for Nazi slur
Māori Party co-leader John Tamihere says the silence over Nelson MP Nick Smith calling deputy speaker Adrian Rurawhe a Nazi is telling.
During last year’s Auckland mayoralty campaign Mr Tamihere was widely condemned for saying ‘seig heil’ as a way to accuse his opponent Phil Goff of acting like a dictator in denying Canadian right-wing provocateurs the use of a council-owned venue.
He compared the mainstream media’s ignoring of the Māori Party’s campaign launch with the way it treated Mr Smith’s response to being ordered out of parliament’s debating chamber.
"I’m proud I said 'seig heil' to Goff. The Jewish society comes out to try to beat me up. Everybody else. Do they come out after the white boy Nick Smith? No, they don't. For two reasons – one: he made the comments to a brown deputy speaker; and two, he's one of them, so he gets away with it," Mr Tamihere says.
He says it’s an example of the one nation, two classes of citizen that the Māori Party is standing up against.
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