Meng Foon breaks his silence on Tusiata Avia & talks to Nobby Clark about the n-word 

Well said Nobby...Meng Fool is a hypocrite and he should resign.

Resign, resign,resign, race relations commissioner. That poem was the tip of the iceberg, vial and inhuman, if you can’t see that God help us all

Sorry but Meng was ducking and diving like a true bureaucrat or politician. I can't have respect for someone who'd rather evade the hard questions rather than answer them honestly -- even if that answer might not be one I agree with. I suspect Meng was chosen for this role because those making the appointment knew he'd be as ineffective as he clearly is. This is just another hallmark of bad government and I don't think it's something limited to Labour -- all politicians are basically the same when you get past the colour of their rosettes.

Good on ya Nobby

So great too see Meng Foon on here. Big ups to him.

Strange there is so much condemnation of using offensive language except offensive language against Jesus or Mary or other Christian icons

Is Meng Foon seriously our Race Relations Commissioner, he needs to resign.

Mens Foon's definition of racism is absolutely incorrect. Racism has nothing to do with one group having power over another. It is simply whether someone is discriminating against another person based on their race, it has nothing to do with who is the dominant numerically.

I agree with David Seymour on this. If this is the position of Human Rights Commissioner we are better of without it. It is way better that there is no office; than an office which cannot function - as it tacitly gives official approval.

I was talking to a white teacher over the weekend. She teaches at a predominantly pacific island school. They were saying when it came to sport ‘As long as the whites don’t win’ she raised it with the school and again ‘nothing’. Racism works both ways and Meng Foon is encouraging it by having a one way approach to racism

Firstly, good on Meng and Nobby for fronting. Secondly, the idea that Meng put forward that racism is soley a manifestation of structural power imbalances between groups is a marxist notion and it's dangerous. If we accept this premise and also accept the premise that New Zealanders of European extraction are proportionately over representated in positions of power, it becomes easier to lazily suggest without exidence that systemic racism is perpetratred and perpetuated by New Zelanders of European extraction against other groups. Racism is in fact, the idea that discrimination against a person is justified because of their race and it can play out in any direction. It often manifests in interpersonal relations, but we've also seen it operate at a societal level. Meng should not be able to get away unchallenged with his use of a narrow marxist definition of racism.

The only one that needs to stand down is Meng foon himself... I must be racist for saying that as it seems to be the governments game play these days...

Can you imagine this interview on TV1? Now tell me they are not as biased as Meng.

Meng is deliberately failing at his job. He is an imposter, but unfortunately, New Zealand loves imposters.

Holy crap!!!talk about not being the sharpest knife in the drawer!!!

Pretty obvious by his silence, Foon thinks racism is a one way street, when we all know it is a two way street. I think he does not want to upset so called indigenous cultures and by keeping quiet indicates his preference mostly to one culture. From an indigenous caucasian, although not commonly recognised as such.

That was embarrassing. What a bumbling fool Meng is. It’s very clearly racist. He should be sacked. Nobby is spot on and knows what he’s about.

The irony... Meng Foon meets his own definition for racism. Amazing.

Meng is out of his depth.

What a joke Meng Foon is. To be fair, his job is a joke, so I suppose he has to be too.

meng foon should loose his job as hes not doing it - he is letting double standards stand - only going 1 way -- that poet should be prosecuted for incitement of hate - fullstop -

We need to be able to see Meng's body language. His words are hollow

I think the poem is absolutely disgusting and I’m a brown person.

Good on Nobby for standing up for decency.

I had no idea our race relations commissioner was so ineloquent.

I like how Nobby speaks. Where as Meng is pure "blah blah blah" Meng must stand down immediately. Purely useless in his current position. Much like most in Wellington lately.

"I am not an analyst of this sort of thing...." oh dear Meng.

It would be interesting to swap out the "white" for "brown" in a parallel counter-poem and see what RCC does with that. I bet Meng Foon would be calling it racist as fast as he could.

Meng didn't like the poem, but he didn't use his position to stop it being performed at the art event

Wow. What a great interview. Thank you Platform for really following this story as far as you have! 👌I hope it helps NZ achieve the right tolerance for each other and the right intolerance for bullshit like this hideous piece of hate speech masquerading as ‘art’

Meng Foon is so full of it...

That was very embarrassing, for Meng

How can he say that it is not racism? He's really lost for words. It's very sad and I would have no confidence in the Human 'Rights' Commission.

This is nuts. NZ needs to get it right as to what hate speech is.

Foons lot say the maori consultation group in Wapa, seventeen and are in council and unelected and he says this is not racist, a maori ward is racist.

Sound like Meng has no idea what racism is.

Shouldn’t Meng as the commissioner be taking it to the court on behalf of those 200 plus complaints, clearly he is in the wrong job.Telling those individuals they could test the waters if they want to, isn’t acceptable, if it was an Anti Maori poem I’m sure it would be a much bigger issue, and for that reason it is raciest.

Obviously Foon is out of his depth tongue tied and twisted for sure,at least he finally had the courage to front .It was funny hearing his reaction when Shaun informed him that Nobby Clark was also to be interviewed. He needs to read the definition of racism in the Oxford dictionary .He also unwittingly outed himself as a racist... white people can still make a contribution...I was waiting for "some of my best friends are white people".The man is weak and confused and needs to stand down.

Meng is clearly out of his depth. Maybe its a lack of courage....

How is it not 'classification' when she is clearly singling out white people. She isn't talking about killing black, indian, or asian people is she? Definitely a double standard here.

Wait so he isn't an expert but he is in a role for an expert of this topic🤨

Can't believe the tax payers pay for this person, what a waste of money

I want my tax payers money back.

OMG !,Meng , resign now !, you are not impartial, the poet should be stripped of her order of merit ,

With all the ducking, bobbing and weaving he did in this interview, I think Meng Foon would beat Tyson Fury.

I love how Meng carries on about harmony and not liking words like that etc etc. But only speaks up against the Mayor but not the poet. Obviously only 1 side in NZ needs to work on making this place harmonious...

I used to know a woman who worked at a department store, she was so happy that her daughter, graduated as a doctor, had married a new zealander, whom also was a doctor. She told me she was so happy that her daughter married him, and not a blackman. And if she had a blackmans baby, she could not be able to hold it. That is the honest truth. Meng, guess what that womans ethnicity is? Not white. Chinese Taiwanese. Do you think that is racism? I cannot ever forget what she said. It was a shocker! Do you not like white people Meng? Gwai lo Gwai por? Did you know my daughter was racially abused on the train coming home from Auckland Uni? Another guess what, the abuser was Maori, and my daughter is Eurasian. He was going on about Asians. What do you say about that Meng?

Meng Foon just like Susan Devoy before him is simply out of his depth in that job.

i remember that at the high school i went to in the 1960's and 1970's in ChCh white kids got canned brutally if bad language was used. That taught me to use polite language for the rest of my life and I seem to have had a great career using harmonious language. We only had a few Maori kids at that school and we learnt a bit of te reo (though I cant remember it as I am a science guy). I was one of the 270+ who complained to the HR dept - took 2 weeks for the weak reply.

Meng should be replaced immediately. He inspires no confidence. Plainly double standards.

Meng Foon is just using weasle words

Hey Foon, its still called NEW ZEALAND, how about suiting the majority and not pandering to the minority. Damn that guy needs to be booted out.

The race commissioner has double standards image the word white is replaced with black or yellow or brown that poet would be defunded within 24 hours been taken to court and charged with every charge possible, hypocritical and a disgrace.

Strange how i used to get a swelling in my heart watching The ABs doing the Haka - Now im feeling like its racist ????

Quite frankly Meng is not fit for that job. He has no objectivity or consistency. He is an embarrassment.

Good work Sean. Having Mayor and Meng together was a good move. The positions came out fairly clearly and you did a bit to reconcile between the two guests. Healthy dialogue is so important on this tricky and difficult issue.

I came up with a saying many years ago that fits this perfectly it goes " comment postponed sincerity denied ". This is an attempt to having your cake and eat it to Meng.

Mr Foon should look up, what double standards, means and if possible think about it.

Jeez, our whole government is a total embarrassment. NZ is imploding. Who is this Meng charcter anyway. Another rich ego driven nobody bossing everyone around.

Great discussion. My take is people will always use the freedom of speech or expression to make a statement for good or bad. But when a govt dept funds, accepts and promotes this type of work then we have a very serious issue in this country. Funding should be pulled and the poem should be thrown into to fire!

sack foon....another waste of space time and PUBLIC monies.

This guy Meng Foon is completely hopeless

Government supported, subsidised and promoted the poem and then it judged its own response to the Tusiata Avia poem. Mr Meng was the judge. Is wordsmithery a universal "Get out of jail card?"

Meng Foon is no different from his predecessor, Devoy, who became woefully one sided and woke, Foon was hand picked to do the same..he needs to go.

Meng knows what side his bread is buttered on!

“I always say to white people, you actually still have a lot to contribute”. Still?! What a telling comment. @24:40

Foon stumbles through his identity politics nonsense, trying to repeat correctly what he's been told. Beyond embarrassing.

Listening to the poem that women wrote it made me feel sick as for meng He’s racist to to all white people in Nz

can we have a conversation about young white men and why they are leaving our universities in record numbers? the ones I have spoken to say they are sick of being picked on by their teachers. This year 60% of graduates will be women, 40% men

I thought Meng needed to show stronger leadership and strongly denounce the writer and her poetry. Listening to her narrate the poem she sounds like a psycho. I’m Maori and find her poem culturally and racially offensive .

The only systemic and structural racism in New Zealand is that which benefits Maori. Maori electorates is a big one, All the unearned power and money that's just given to Iwi. Maori businesses getting tax benefits that white or asian businesses don't. I'm sure if I dug deeper I'd find a dozen more examples.

STILL have a lot to contribute to the community??? WOW!

NOBBY did nothing wrong. Meng is a complete knob

I don’t think poet describes her.

Moron Meng

Meng is out of his depth by a mile "Don't judge the cover by the book"

Ok he, in the 3 A's he described Awareness, affirmation and action, making it sound like some smart answer to it all, but my understanding of affirmation is that is a fancy way to say Awareness and action, something he is not taking and never will to take unless he thinks it's not against white people, and isn't a person of a certain race prejudice violent view against another race still considered racism. I was a White boy growing up in a Maori dominated areas with 90 percent Maori friends, racism was there, but not to the extreme we hear about it now, every time i heard it, it was by someone on TV, and I see now that it was always someone how had something to gain by pushing the narrative, i know Maori that are sick of other Maori using the word racist to win a fight, because it does and they know it. It's getting harder and harder to be on the internet, or just live your life, when every other race or opposing gender that have a little bit of social or political power think you should be constantly apologising for just being a white male. And cry racism every time they don't get their way, or to get others to shut up, and to their own kind sometimes.

I want $100k to publish my poems too. Problem is they're all about nice things - flowers 'n' such. Do I have to change all the words to make them racist to get my $100k?

Politicians are so out of touch with the real world and far removed

Meng keeps quoting the revised woke version of the definition of racism l. Not the one that is used in the English language or its Long standing meaning

I would be interested to know if there a legal definition of what a Maori is, I say this simply because the bloodlines are so impure now, that many people who claim to be Maori have as little as 1/64th Maori blood in them. Are there really any true Maori left?

Do not resign Mr Clark., Great interview Sean. So I don't like the poem, the artist proved to me in your piece you played yesterday that she is backing the words personally that are in her poem. Don't you think she should be named as a person of interest to the authorities.

Meng Foon is a very confused human being, he is wanting equality of outcome, rather than equality of opportunity, and you cannot legislate for equality of outcome is always ends up with a whole lot of unexpected consequences. What a ugly poem, James Cook was a lovely human being, mourned by many in the pacific for his good deeds there, well known for his refusal to whip his crew

If a comedian or comedienne used that type of language in a gig (and comedy is part of the arts, it's a form of acting, then they would be absolutely pillaried.

Does NZ really need a Race Relations Commissioner

Glad that while folk still have something to contribute, thank you Meng Fool.

Mr Foon was a pokie machine operator/owner within a Maori community before being the Gisborne Mayor

Quality Meng Foon made it to the Platform and talk about the racist poem against white people, nothing change on his perception of racist against white people, but he jumps on Nobby over a word, we all hear in American rap music all the time, it just a word too common in rap. Yes Meng Foon is double standards, I do not understand why he could not say this is racist and encourages violence against white people, Tusiata Avia needs mental health support, I do not know anyone who would want to write crazy, lunatic words like this, all in her head this is fun and games in her mind

If Meng admits this is racist, he will be accused of being racist.

Its disgraceful that poem has won an award and state money when it insights racism against European people. The human Rights commissioner should be stood down. His inaction and deliberate bias against other races is shameful.

Well done Platform. Good on Meng and Nobby for being on today. The platform is coming along nicely! You won’t get this on MSM or from conspiracy nutjobs!👍👍👍

More people will see this than his movie. and it didn't cost taxpayer money

Meng Foon must have made this horrid poem into a song in his mind so somehow it sounds better in his mind

Can he come on when he isn’t soo stoned 🤣

It was nice to hear "we" still have a use and something to contribute. Ta for that Meng.

awesome mate! i thought you were gonna loose it a couple times ha.

Interesting choice of words Meng. You stated that you often tell white people that ‘ They still have something to offer to society’. The word ‘still’ would imply that it’s not over yet, but it will eventually come to an end. You’re talking about the racial majority of NZ Meng .

WEFs Agenda ??

Also mentioned killing descendants which effectively “sins of the father” which is madness

So what he is saying we white people need to complain more