It's NOT Okay to be White in New Zealand

[Rev.Cambeul]

New Zealand: A reminder from May 2019 - It's Okay to be White T-Shirts
(We covered this before, but a reminder is needed.)

Trade Me sells 'It's Okay To Be White' T-shirts

Scott Palmer | NewsHub (New Zealand) | 22 May 2019

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/05/trade-me-sells-it-s-okay-to-be-white-t-shirts.html

Excerpt: The Human Rights Commission (HRC) says there's "no place" for 'It's Okay To Be White' stickers and T-shirts currently being sold on Trade Me.

Items featuring the controversial slogan are available on the auction site from a Nelson-based seller.

"Counter-signal the Marxists and other anti-white bigots with these decals, featuring the most successful /pol/ meme of 2017!" the auction description reads.

"An 'It's Okay To Be White' T-shirt will let people know that you are not a racist who thinks that a child can be born into sin if others with the same skin colour have acted badly in the past.

"Wear this shirt as a white person to troll your local Communists, or wear this shirt as a brown person to troll stuck-up middle-class urbanites. Either way it's funny!"

But the HRC doesn't see the funny side and says there's "no place" for the message in New Zealand.

"This phrase is known to be associated with white supremacist groups around the world," a spokesperson for the Human Rights Commission told Newshub.

"Despite what the advertisements say, it seems likely that the stickers and T-shirts are intended to convey a message of intolerance, racism and division. There is no place for that in New Zealand."

Richard A Baker, president of the American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity, told insidehighered.com in 2018 after posters appeared on US campuses.

"What is interesting is that a position is being inferred by some on the national stage that whites are a marginalized group and are being made to feel 'not OK' in their whiteness. This flyer's purpose is to attract persons who may be sympathetic to that position but may not respond to a swastika or other traditional symbols of white nationalism or direct recruitment."

Last year, One Nation party leader Pauline Hanson attempted to pass a motion in the Australian Senate stating "it is OK to be white" and condemning "anti-white racism". It was defeated by just three votes by its opponents, who called it a "racist slogan".

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And it's not the first time the controversial message has appeared in New Zealand. In 2017 posters with "ITS OKAY TO BE WHITE" on them were pasted around Napier, leading to anger from officials.

Hawke's Bay Tourism general manager Annie Dundas told NZME anyone seeing the posters should tear them down.

"We don't need to see that sort of rubbish," she said.

Obviously, It's NOT Okay to be White in New Zealand.

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It's Alright to be White T-Shirts
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