Social
Justice Aotearoa CEO Jackie Foster has called out The
Platform Radio host Michael
Laws social media post “as nothing but racial and
separatist comments.”
On Wednesday, Michael
Laws posted on his Facebook page in response to an
article about the removal of name suppression of a person
convicted of murdering her daughter.
He said, “More
scum, more death penalty trash, more White Ribbon woke
cowardice. I’ll keep saying this: note the
ethnicity”.
Jackie Foster said, “We
acknowledge that Aotearoa has a serious child abuse problem,
but people in positions of media power should never refer to
it as an ethnic problem.
“Aotearoa New Zealand needs
to come together as a country and get to the heart of the
child abuse problem we have and to find
solutions.
”Social media posts from people like Mr
Laws will never help the problem. It will only fuel racism
and separatism, something we don’t need in this country
right now,” Jackie Foster
said.
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