Just read it. Amazing man who gets it.
In the latest episode of Newstalk ZB’s Real Life with John Cowan, the author said some of his fellow Māori feel entitled to the benefit because they’re “fixed in their thinking that they’re never going to go anywhere and it [poverty] is generational”. “The entire victim mentality is in-written with its own doom, because it says somebody else is responsible for me, for the state or the condition I’m in,” he said.
“Therefore, until whoever I am laying the blame on comes along and fixes it, I will forever remain the victim, instead of just saying there’s got to be another way.”
Duff believes social welfare policy in Aotearoa – particularly that of Helen Clark’s Labour government, which in 2004 introduced the Working For Families package – is responsible.
“They all feel entitled and it robs them of any self-dignity because they then have to justify that they’re uneducated or whatever and entitled to the unemployment [benefit],” he said.