Godwin’s Law

The Herald reports:

Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters is doubling down on his comments likening Te Pāti Māori statements to Nazi Germany – and is promising to say more on the subject later today.

That’s despite Prime Minister Christopher Luxon telling Peters – also the Foreign Minister – his comments were unhelpful and reinforced the importance of politicians refraining from using divisive language.

Godwin’s Law is that the longer a thread carries on on the Internet, the probability of a comparison to Hitler reaches 1. This also applies to politics sometimes.

I’m against any politician comparing policy disagreements to the Nazis, whether it was Megan Woods around asset sales or Winston on co-governance.

I’m also against Te Pati Maori labelling getting rid of the Maori Health Authority as genocide, and Labour calling the use of urgency as a dictatorship with comparisons to Putin.

Te Pati Maori especially get a free pass from most of the media for their incendiary rhetoric. They use the genocide term repeatedly. They also argue against democracy and this barely gets a mention in the media.

During his speech, Peters appeared to compare Labour’s use of co-governance to “race-based theory”, as seen in Nazi Germany.

He later clarified his “Nazi Germany” comments were referring specifically to comments made by Te Pāti Māori regarding Māori genes.

Did any media call out TPM for claiming Maori had superior DNA? Did they aggressively question the co-leaders over their claims of genocide or insane claims of white supremacy?