Aro-Mind

I think Rodney Hide and the NZ Herald should be honest and just come out and say they are anti-Māori. Stop mucking around and just make it clear. This is clearly the intent here without saying it directly. Rodney Hide is critical of a 'refloated Paganism'. He is also critical of Government agencies which seem to have been duped by Māori into spending tax payers/public money - as if Māori aren't tax payers or members of the public - on such spurious Māori schemes as erecting carved pou on two bridges, one in Waikato and the other in Hauraki. It is disingenuous of the NZ Herald to say that 'pou are to be admired' and then let Rodney Hide spend the entire article complaining about the lack of information available about the pou on these bridges. Instead of explaining why the pou ought to be admired (what 'strikes' him about the pou, as he says), he informs us of his frustrated search for information and tells us about 'secret histories', suggesting that