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New Zealand news anchor with traditional face tattoo blasts viewer’s racist comments
NBC News ^ | Aug. 25, 2022 | Tat Bellamy-Walker

Posted on 08/27/2022 9:36:20 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

A New Zealand news anchor fired back at a viewer who she said has repeatedly complained about her traditional face tattoos.

Oriini Kaipara, who co-hosts the political current affairs show "Newshub Nation," shut down the remarks from a viewer who she said emailed her and described her tattoos as “offensive and aggressive looking” and a “bad look.” The viewer’s comments come after Kaipara made history last year as the first person with a moko kauae, a cultural tattoo worn by Māori women, to anchor a prime-time news program.

“Please refrain from complaining further, and restrain your cultural ignorance and bias for another lifetime, preferably in the 1800s,” Kaipara wrote in an email to the viewer, according to a screenshot of the message posted to her Instagram stories on Wednesday.

Kaipara, who has had the tattoo on her chin since 2019, also condemned the discrimination and harassment that people with the traditional moko marking endure.

The Māori people are an Indigenous and Polynesian group in New Zealand. In Māori culture, the sacred chin tattoo symbolizes a transition from girl to adulthood.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: barbarian; barbarianism; maori; newzealand; stoneage; stoneageesthetics; tattoo
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To: facedown

Hideous.


21 posted on 08/27/2022 9:51:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Btw

She’s got plenty white seed in her btw

The chin ink doesn’t enhance her comely face

Honestly


22 posted on 08/27/2022 9:51:38 AM PDT by wardaddy (Lawyers guns and money……I lived it…. Now I'm old…. I have wonderful children)
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To: beef

IDK, looks more like a spits.


23 posted on 08/27/2022 9:52:21 AM PDT by stevio
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To: T.B. Yoits

She is cute

I’m down


24 posted on 08/27/2022 9:52:35 AM PDT by wardaddy (Lawyers guns and money……I lived it…. Now I'm old…. I have wonderful children)
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To: MinorityRepublican

… Let me abos go loose, Lou
Let me abos go loose (oh!)
They’re of no further use, Lou
So let me abos go loose
Just the abos sing!

[Chorus]
Tie me kangaroos down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RviuTfdfArM


25 posted on 08/27/2022 9:54:06 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yah, like the Nose Rings, Gauges, Piercings, Tattoos, and other forms of self mutilation that have become so common here in the US are any better!
Not knowing the code for any of these I just assume they are all declarations of some form of “Gay” and stay away.


26 posted on 08/27/2022 9:55:36 AM PDT by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: wardaddy; T.B. Yoits
She has more tattoos on her body which she says she is paying respect to her culture. But I am not so sure about that.
27 posted on 08/27/2022 9:56:57 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

The tattoos definitely make her look ugly. But perhaps in less-evolved cultures, closer to those of the Denisovans and Neanderthals, opinions may be different.


28 posted on 08/27/2022 9:59:11 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Funny the rest of her look is so modern without a hint of ethnic hair or dress. But that tattoo is the only thing you see. Mostly because it is out of place with the rest of her look.


29 posted on 08/27/2022 9:59:45 AM PDT by poinq
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To: MinorityRepublican

Apparently it wasn’t in her job description, but some Karens think it is.


30 posted on 08/27/2022 10:03:18 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“offensive and aggressive looking”

You poor little thing. You’re just too high strung aren’t you?


31 posted on 08/27/2022 10:03:52 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: wardaddy
Once were warriors.


32 posted on 08/27/2022 10:04:17 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: poinq

She should be wearing a traditional Maori dress on television.

33 posted on 08/27/2022 10:04:18 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Looks like a savage. Idiotic


34 posted on 08/27/2022 10:08:40 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: MinorityRepublican

My mother’s stance that she always used to guide her children was that people who got tattoos did so before they matured and regretted them or they were just stupid.

I always thought of that when my friends in the Navy wanted to get tattoos and many did and wanted me to join them. I also echoed to them what she said, before and after they got them.

Imagine what this pretty lady’s face is going to look like in 20 years. It is absolutely going to look stupid.


35 posted on 08/27/2022 10:14:16 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It kind of reminds me of the facial tatoo of Olive Oatman, who was kidnapped by the Yavapai in the Mojave Desert.


36 posted on 08/27/2022 10:15:50 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Ex gun maker.

They are definitely not worse, but she can claim the all-important “culture” whereas whites and Christians cannot.


37 posted on 08/27/2022 10:15:57 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: bagster

Lots of appropriation going on there.


38 posted on 08/27/2022 10:16:48 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Nothing “traditional” about it.


39 posted on 08/27/2022 10:17:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: jjotto

“No member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abos in any way whatsoever if there’s anyone watching.”


40 posted on 08/27/2022 10:18:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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