Xavier James

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@BroTalkBurnerG1 @keraoregan Why not perform a dance that is inclusive of a wider breadth of NZ’s culture and which doesn’t involve yelling, screaming, eye-bulging, and throat slitting? Actually, I really think they should just stop doing it. It’s embarrassing.

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@BroTalkBurnerG1 @keraoregan No, i’m very well informed about the origins, various meanings, and different versions of the haka, and connotations of violence in the haka.

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@BroTalkBurnerG1 @keraoregan I find it pretty out of place outside of the Pacific, even more so when non-Pacific teams do not reciprocate with their own performance. It’s surprising when particularly violent versions are permitted. Does it really reflect NZ’s diverse cultural background?

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@ELHopkins Zero care or concern for the health of school teachers. Of which there will soon be none.

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@cyclingkev @amanda_spielman @JamesCleverly A horrendous lack of empathy from OFSTED. Brutal.

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@Signsoflife27 @keraoregan @keraoregan block away, but I don’t see how disagreeing with the performance of the haka at an international rugby game is racist.

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@Signsoflife27 @keraoregan Of course.

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@ired0mi *what

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@ired0mi If you want people to respect you, then you have to reciprocate that respect by showing care for their language, customs, life experience, and knowledge, no matter that their skin colour, rather than to solely expect that from them 3/

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@ired0mi It shows zero consideration or respect for the cultural variance in their ancestry and skant knowledge of NZ tribalism and history in the period from 1700 to 1840. I wish you well on your journey. END.

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@ired0mi Referring to lighter-skinned NZers as “pakeha” or “whites” using a hostile tone connotes undeserved hatred for them and a South African style apartheid that is not welcome in NZ 4/

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@Kit_Yates_Maths Ventilation would also help prevent teachers being repeatedly infected with covid by their unsafe workplaces, and potentially contracting long covid. Not that parents or school governors care about this one iota.

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@MiriamaKamo On television, at educational institutions, and at public events it is essential that both English and Maori are spoken to avoid excluding those who do not speak te reo, and the creation of some sort of creole or pidgin language.

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@jamespeshaw Half-price transport for locals or NZ residents would be an excellent move. A country serious about fair cost of living and the reduction of emissions is willing to do this.

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@headsontheblock @NewshubPolitics FFP2 masks are compulsory on public transport in France and Italy. Many countries in Europe are looking to bring back the mask, so while some people are not wearing them in public, they are being advised to do so. Wear an FFP2!

https://t.co/6eyr83gL0U

https://t.co/YwxKqFdcKM

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@headsontheblock @NewshubPolitics This is utter bollocks. Safety precautions were dropped in Europe and the UK after people tired of them, with disastrous results. Watch the restrictions being reinstated over the next few weeks:

https://t.co/eNZtZmo9E0

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@SonyaBonczek If only people would stop viewing single women as prospective sexual partners or threats to their marriage.

[Xavier James @XavierJJJ]

@SonyaBonczek This very same social dynamic prevents married people from interacting with the single woman who has moved in to the flat next door, and when this woman starts at her new job and introduces herself to a male colleague, he quickly refers to “my partner” 1/