There’s a lot of repeating going on. The Labour Party is copying NZ First which copied the attitudes of 19th century White New Zealanders to Chinese goldminers.
Then they were called The Yellow Peril, now they’re called Overseas buyers.
Easier to blame the ones with Chinese names for Auckland’s over-heated housing market. Beats blaming the Auckland City Council’s housing strategy.
And Chinese are easier to spot. Who cares if their great-great grandparents settled here and successive generations have lived here, paid taxes, have done so for generations, and that they buy houses too?
If overseas buyers who happen to be Chinese are buying up large in the housing market, is it right that because of their actions, small kids who were born here, just like their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents are subjected to the kind of bullying that their great-grandparents, grandparents, parents were subjected to?
If I asked anyone they would say no of course it’s not right and of course they wouldn’t do anything that would lead to that kind of behaviour. But I’ve never met anyone who says they voted for John Key either.
