The stupid amount of money we spend on DEI and teaching kink to 'trans', whilst better causes go begging - give me a break!

How much exactly are we spending on DEI and funding for neo-rainbow groups, and what exactly are the benefits?

A while ago, I wrote something about the stupidity of intelligent people, which featured a woman and the organisation she worked at. However, we know that there have been a multitude of university graduates in the last few decades who’d also fit the same description. They have come away indoctrinated with woke bollox that obviously looks great on paper, and have disseminated said bollox throughout as much of our government, Councils, Public Service, and society that they can, with no evidence whatsoever there’s any substance to it. Despite that, it gets talked up a storm - and the talk is where most of the proclaimed merit appears to lie.

It’s given rise to well-paid nonsense-jobs, and the funding of dubious-as-feck programmes and projects. The latest of these projects which has come to light has been exposed by a group called Better Wellington, who’ve revealed that the Wellington City Council has given $170,000 over three years to a neo-rainbow outfit named Gender Minorities to run an online sex course for ‘transgender’ people. In this course, they teach about BDSM - Bondage and Discipline, Domination and Submission - which includes kinks like being urinated on, and suturing. Suturing??

Now, whatever we think of kink, funding an online course about it by our City Councils is a highly questionable use of ratepayers’ money. Imagine the number of truly worthwhile charities who could do with money like that. Reportedly, the Gender Minorities head honcho, Ahi Wi-Hongi, a (Māori) man who says he’s a woman, claims the course is about staying safe. I can only surmise that was yet another narrative somehow made to look great on paper, and the already TQ-indoctrinated Wellington City Council bought it hook, line, and sinker. However, according to Councillor Diane Calvert, not all of them knew it had even been on the table for approval, let alone approved. Is this yet another example of how the words ‘trans’ and ‘skulduggery’ are never far away from each other?

In slightly better news, DEI in our public service may be coming under the spotlight. One of our coalition-government partners, NZ First, has introduced a bill to remove ‘DEI’ regulations from Public Service. Even our Prime Minister, Chris Luxon, leader of centre-right National Party, but with heretofore worrying woke tendencies, has cautiously given the bill his backing. Labour, the Greens, and Te Pāti Māori (the Māori Party) have, of course, scoffed at suggestions that our public service is over-DEI’d, and news reporters asked NZ First leader Winston Peters for some examples of DEI in our Public Service.

So, yesterday Mr Peters obligingly posted on X a few excerpts gleaned from Public Service documents and websites -

NB: Chris Hipkins is the (Labour) leader of the Oppositon

I’ll add to the above that the Reserve Bank of New Zealand has wokified and DEI’d itself up the wazoo, too. About a year ago, it was advertising for a DEI Director - since filled - whose job description includes “embed diversity, equity and inclusion and Te Ao Māori across our organisation”. The Reserve Bank also devotes an entire page on its website about how the god of the forest, a kauri tree called Tāne Mahuta, can help explain their financial system. I expect the hapu (Māori sub-tribe) whom the Reserve Bank thanks “for their support in our use of this narrative” got financially ‘supported’ back. The act of giving and reciprocity is an important part of Māori custom, and there is much context involved in it, but when money’s involved it’s simply a financial transaction, a sale, and nothing else.

Now, I like myths and legends as much as the next person. I like how they tell us stories about the best and worst of humans, animals, and the god/esses’ strengths, virtues, and foibles, and talk of the mystery of times and those long gone. There’s always a touch of transporting us elsewhere with them. However, to use the legend of Tāne Mahuta as the Reserve Bank has, in order to embed Te Ao Māori (the Māori worldview) into a financial institution, has taken something reverential away from it, and made it slightly ridiculous instead, imo. And that’s a shame.

I’m fed up with even the thought of how much DEI costs, and how much money gets flung at neo-rainbow groups and programmes with no observable benefits whatsoever, whilst causes that can actually show benefits from getting funding go begging. The only observable factor with how DEI and neo-rainbow shite works is how brutally their non-adherents are treated.

I’m a Boomer - talk to the hand if you have a problem with that - and I’ve decided I refuse to hear one more whine about the ‘cost’ of us, until the cost of entirely optional DEI and neo-rainbow BS is cleaned up first.