{"product_id":"9781908476869","title":"The Parihaka Cult","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘The events that took place in and around Parihaka particularly from about 1860 to 1900 have affected the political, cultural and spiritual dynamics of the entire country’. - Human Rights Commission, 2010\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past forty-years or so, we in New Zealand have watched our history being systematically re-invented, not based upon documented evidence of real-events that actually occurred on the ground, but solely to serve a modern-day need for made-to-order propaganda.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the foremost of the churned-out, manufactured-myths surrounds the mid-19th century creation of a cultist-community called ‘Parihaka’, now represented, in typical Marxist-speak, as some kind of a Gandhi-inspiring bastion of righteousness and (yawn) passive-resistance against imperialist tyranny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ‘colonial invasion’ of Parihaka in 1881 and the arrest of its self-styled ‘prophets’ Te Whiti and Tohu, have become a major part of the New Zealand narrative that has been revised to inculcate a guilt complex into European, especially British-descended, New Zealanders in the interests of tribal agendas. As such, the Parihaka legend ranks alongside America’s ‘Wounded Knee’ and South Africa’s ‘Sharpeville’ as part of a world-wide offensive against the past, present and future of European-descended peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Kerry Bolton delves deeply into the huge body of extant historical documentation, contemporary to Parihaka’s founding prophet, and lays the entire, lame-fantasy bare for all to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black House Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062795190512,"sku":"9781908476869","price":15.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781908476869_p0.jpg?v=1763621844","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908476869","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}