Bullied for being the wrong sort of Maori

Stuff reports:

ACT MP Karen Chhour has spoken to Stuff’s ThreeNews about how she feels “bullied” at work.

The children’s minister broke down in an interview with Stuff on Wednesday, saying Parliament doesn’t feel like a safe work environment for her.

“Yes, I’m in a position of being a minister but I’m still a person, I’m still a person. And I feel like I’m getting that stripped away from me day by day in this place and I’ve had enough,” she said through tears. …

“Whilst I can’t control what the public is saying about my personal traits about being Maori enough or not being the right kind of traumatised person hearing it from other MPs that shouldn’t be allowed.”

If Chhour was a Minister for the left, she would be hailed as a brave whine trailblazer who not only survived state care, but has risen to the top of politics despite her start in life. There would be numerous magazine profiles and sympathetic profiles.

But because she is on the right, she is vilified by some opposition MPs as being a bad Maori, a sellout, an example of what is wrong with those who went through state care etc.

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