"Instead of hiring multiple Māori reporters and translators, we made an AI that poorly translates Māori and hired one reporter to check all of those stories who openly admits that there's gonna be translation fuckups. Here he is to explain why his job is a really great idea in a VERY unbiased article."
Also imo the translations are just clumsy. Someone actually writing in Māori would make these far more concise and to the point, and imo the AI tool falls into far too many common "whakaaro Pakeha" mistakes of literal translation.
I'm also interested in seeing what their AI is trained on, and if they're paying those sources. Many internet sources are not good examples of journalistic Māori if their Māori is correct at all.
Just hire goddamn speakers. It's not that hard. Stuff Articles are mostly fluff pieces anyway, it's not like they would take hours each to translate.
Update- looks like they fired 3 of their ~5 Pou Tiaki Māori editorial roles november last year, after reducing the group from 10, and returned two other Pou Tiaki to their original positions. Yeah. This is a move 100 percent designed to save money and drop Māori voices.
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Yeah, I'm sure this wasn't a racial attack at all even though it's almost all in the clearly marked maori section of the Urupā and they destroyed maori symbols and set the Graves on fire and-
Also pretty minimal fucking coverage, I gotta say.
Image description: A maori news article by Kevin Mcdonald, titled- ""disgusted": māori Graves targeted by vandals at new zealand's oldest cemetery". It is accompanied by a photo showing the grave of the late Cameron Duncan, its koru headstone smashed to pieces.
Now that National and ACT look like they're set for an awful term for new zealand, do not let yourself forget.
Don't forget how mainstream media accepted blanket national ads on news websites without question. How they promoted David Seymour and other right politicians as guests on comedy panel shows, pushing their profile and image. How they insisted on describing threats of genocide, violence and terrorism as "jokes", "opinions", and "honest mistakes".
Don't forget the national party members accepting saluting nazis in their midst. David seymour's "jokes" about violently murdering Pacifica people. The female maori politicians receiving death threats, being physically assaulted and having their homes invaded . Christopher luxon describing the poor as "bottom feeders". Their allyships with destiny church. Their attempts to frame queer people as predators. Their clear and ongoing attempts to redress antisemitic conspiracies into "maori elite" ones; and saying we should be literally exterminated.
And most of all, you BETTER not forget to take action. We have years to make sure this doesn't happen again, to ensure they can get as few of their disgusting plans accomplished as possible. We have to make change wherever we can and ensure that marginalized voices are accepted, supported and lifted up in our communities.
Fuck National. Fuck ACT. Fuck NZ First. And fuck all their pathetic little cronies.
The NZ first party is now not only insisting that Māori people are not indigenous, they are also claiming that the only Māori who believe themselves to be so are "Elites" who need to be exterminated. Their definition of "elites" seems to be Māori who speak the language, are involved with or aware of their culture and history, or are generally not buying white supremacist bullshit.
A Māori party candidate has had her home broken into, her signs smashed down, her fence driven into and terroristic threats made both in these attacks and via mail.
Māori party billboards have been defaced with swastikas and broken down.
There have been two anti-māori marches in the last two weeks.
National, ACT, NZ First and a host of other far right parties are parroting and endorsing extremely racist conspiratorial shit about Maori and others. I am seriously worried that there is going to be a terrorist attack at a māori event at some point soon.
Tatou ma, we HAVE to vote in this election. And especially to pakeha, take further action. Support kaupapa māori, participate in the ongoing protests and counter-protests and educate yourselves. We have protests here supporting primarily American kaupapa that get more turnout than Māori led actions do. We need to change that.
I feel that māori are slowly starting to shift things in our favor, but unfortunately one of the clear symptoms of that is that right-wing extremists are scared enough to be making serious threats to our safety. Fuck them. Fuck them all. It will be a long fight over the next few years, but we /have/ to do it, if we want the best future for our country.
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Why do British people and Americans come here, try to force shit to be more like England and america, and then complain that anything bad is "what they moved here to get away from". If you're going to import forcing everyone to speak english, you have to deal with car theft due to the child poverty you imported as well
A leader of Ngāti Rēhia said in a Facebook post this week that he would gladly strip ACT leader David Seymour of his iwi title if he wanted to “carry on with the race card”.
Mana Epiha, the poster, has been a member of te taumata (the leaders’ post) of Ngāti Rēhia, their decision-making and representative body, since he was a child.
Epiha is a 10th-generation direct descendant of the hapū's ancestor, Rēhia.
“Don’t ever claim that you are Ngāti Rēhia if you want to tutū with the Treaty,” Epiha’s post read.
Seymour explained to media recently that his great-great-great grandmother was Maraea Te Inutoto, a high-status member of Ngāti Rēhia.
In response to Epiha’s post, Seymour told Stuff that people have a right to their opinion but it was wrong to think that any one person could speak for the entire iwi.
“I am also part-Scottish. I have never heard any Scottish person say that if I don’t agree with them, they will take away my Scottishness. If you stop and think for a moment, what this person is saying is every bit as ridiculous as that.
“This country deserves a say on what the Treaty means. It’s everybody’s country and everybody should have a say in how its constitutional arrangements evolve and develop.”
Seymour said that debate was a positive thing and a “healthier outcome than the division that is being caused by co-governance.
“ACT has consistently said the Treaty is a taonga and that its principles provide the basis for a modern liberal democracy – the Government is sovereign, its job is to protect property rights, and we all have equal rights and duties.”
Epiha said Seymour’s response was narcissistic and ignorant.
“Traditionally, one or two people would speak for the iwi. For Ngāti Rēhia, those are members of te taumata [the leaders’ post].
“After weighing up the opinions of every whānau, te taumata makes the final decision, and it only needs to be said once.
“Scottish lore and tradition, although I respect them, has no place and no comparison here on these lands. Indigeneity here in Aotearoa is when the community you claim as your own also claims you back.”
Epiha said co-governance is the closest Māori have ever been to equity and equality.
“With 183 years of topping the stats for the most incarcerated, abused, unhealthy, and impoverished, we, as Māori, have finally started taking positive steps forward, only for Mr Seymour and his government to bring it into question again.
“Those ancient signatures on that Treaty document are taonga, and they are tapu. It would be foolish to meddle with such power. The world we live in isn’t just physical; the spiritual world runs part and parcel every single day.
“[Our] ancestors were the movers and shakers of the 1800s,” said Ephia, citing Hongi Hika, Turikatuku and Princess Matire Toha.
“These are the greats of all greats and ignorant little David thinks he can claim he is one of us and then tutū with the founding Treaty document that our great ancestors put in place, so we can prosper.”
Epiha said Seymour was missing a whole world of power and beauty.
“I just hope he finds himself at some stage in his life,” he said.
“I invite ACT to prove to Māori and Pākehā exactly how much of a taonga the Treaty is.
