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Now I’m a Native Boss Babe

May 3, 2021

By NZB3

The news that Victimhood Culture Maoris Māori Scientists so burnt out with the strain of being as Woke as they are they can’t get ahead in their jobs or complete their work tasks…

…Leads us to ask, why don’t you say “no?”

‘Cultural Double-Shift’ (interrupting your job to interrupt others to tell them about Maori stuff in the workplace) has now had an expensive name bought for it by your tax dollars Government funding: He Aronga Takirua.

So much Double Think going on for these poor burn outs! On the one hand, they push for workplaces, even science labs, to re-allocate productivity and paid hours to Social Justice Maori issues. On the other hand, they tire under the exhaustion of getting what they wanted!¹ And, on one hand their memes are telling us how empowered and special and in-demand they are yet clearly they have such low self-esteem that they cannot say “no” when tapped for impromptu cultural consultations.

“Māori academics say they’re having to pull double-shifts – working both as researchers and as unpaid cultural guides for their non-Māori colleagues.”- Māori academics doing unpaid work as cultural guides for colleagues, study finds, RNZ (April 2021)

“I teach taha Maori for the university and get paid the same rate as a domestic cleaner. No doubt there are many more stories like mine….I could complain about the unfairness of it all. But, I love what I do, teaching taha Maori,..” – Wikitoria Smith, Facebook comment

“I got tapped on the shoulder by the Mayors event coordinator desperate bc they hadn’t planned…Saying no wasn’t an option in that moment.” – Nesian News, Facebook

Saying ‘no’ is ALWAYS an option.

Women need to hear this in particular because it’s low boundary-setting standards that causes them to fall behind. Especially in professional careers and when it comes to sex. Instead of saying ‘no’ in the moment it’s no good complaining after the fact that there is a Gender Wage Gap or you’ve had non-consensual sex and want to prosecute…or claim you were Date Rape Drugged. Or get an abortion. Far better to learn to set personal boundaries in the moment; Self-esteem relies on the ability to be self-assertive.

If a powerful politician wants a piece of you it doesn’t mean you must give it! Hells bells, no! Actually, it’s an opportunity for a deal to be made by negotiation and you’re the one with the leverage. Desperation is not a claim on your precious life².

Nesian goes on,
“I reflect on the numerous times when talking abt the Treaty, even in moments in High school where as the only maori in the room the facilitator assumed I knew everything bc I’m Maori and asked me to discuss my POV to my peers- on the spot much and that’s not MY job.”

It happens numerous times because you’ve been training the people around you that you are a pushover since your early teens. You’ve established yourself as easy. Posting a long stream of “I’m a native boss babe with a vision” memes on Instagram is over-compensating³ for under-valuing yourself and under-valuing your culture in the eyes of everyone watching.

” I give my matauranga free to my whanau it’s their birth rite. “

No it’s not. There you go again. Your knowledge is yours. The frustration you feel is that you say it’s theirs not yours yet put ‘my’ in front of it and that’s Double Think. Impossible Situation. If what you have holds value then you must only share it with the worthy- those who give a damn- not just people who show up with their hand out and put you on the spot. You are the custodian of this knowledge, not a vending machine.

“..go learn from your kaumatua like I did or pay me to teach- you pay Pakeha and I got bills and kids to feed also. You gonna take care of that while I spend my time teaching? A job I haven’t been even hired to do, nor is it in my job description…Smdh…”

Say that to them. Stand up for yourself now or else you’ll become bitter and teach people around you to associate your culture with un-assertiveness and bitchyness. These are deep feelings, resentments, that you have the power to do something about but you’re not because you’re giving away your power to others. If you stop pretending to be a native boss babe with a vision then maybe you can be one which is what the world really needs.

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Image ref. Nesian News, Facebook (April 2021)

1 In many cases this is just a meta way of signalling how in-demand one’s Wokeness is. ‘I’m so Woke it’s burning me out’ is like saying ‘I’m so fit my muscles have muscles’. Or, ‘Do you know where I can get durable shoes because they keep wearing out when I run (I’m such a great runner.’) Or, ‘I’m such a great Libertarian and businessman that I demand a vicious dog-eat-dog world where only the strong survive because that’s the sort of person I am, see!?

2 Personally, I don’t think Woke Māori is ‘precious life’. There is legitimate, authentic, Maori culture but this ain’t it. This is fake plastic Frankenstein Maori. Whatever you accept for values though, whatever your identity is, it ought to be treated with respect. The content of what you choose respect is up to you.

3 Over-compensating (Reaction Formation) for being small, for being a push-over in life, is the engine that drives all the fake digital Woke meme content. It’s a paper economy of grandiosity and bombast to hide the inner smallness. By this measure, the shear volume of such Woke material circulating, it shows that we in the West are feeling very small inside right now. Can it get much worse before it collapses in on itself?

 

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