Morgan Godfery: The protective embrace of being part of the in-group
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But what strikes me about Uffindell isn’t so much the violence itself – although bashing a younger man is horrific – so much as it is the absence of any material consequences. Uffindell had the opportunity to quietly enrol at St Paul's Collegiate School. The headmaster at King’s never made a referral to police. Youth justice were never involved. Oranga Tamariki never made inquiries into the nature of Uffindell’s family life, scrutinising his parents for any evidence of a violent lifestyle. And yet if he were Māori, attending a decile one school in a poor suburb, community leaders like the school headmaster, police, and government officials would read gang-bashing a sleeping third former rather differently. They would read it, in short, as criminal.
| Good example of White Privilege and why decolonization is important for the future of New Zealand.
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Protecting your peace is way more important than proving your point. Some people aren't open to cultivating their views. Just let them be wrong.
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