Larry Williams Drive

I've changed my opinion on Marama Davidson’s comments. Just a little bit, not completely.  But having read a lot more and hearing defence of her, I think I understand what she was trying to say. I think she left out a key word: “Sexual". If she had said: “It is white cis men who cause SEXUAL violence in the world”, then she’s actually right. Statically, 46 percent of the country’s sexual violence crimes are committed by Pakeha and 29 percent by Maori.  And not only is she right, but what she was trying to do is also well-meaning, because she was at a rally where Posie Parker was whipping up fear of trans women committing sexual crimes against other women. And Marama Davidson was saying it’s not trans women who predominately commit these crimes, it's men who commit these crimes. And she is correct.  The problem though is the word white. Even if she is factually correct that it is white men, that word is the problem.  Let’s flip it around. If a white parliamentarian was walking down the street at a rally holdin