Paper Challenging Claims of ‘White Power’ in Science Removed from New Zealand Journal
Apparently, deviating from the left’s obsession that white people are the worst contradicts the journal’s “values.”
The Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists dropped a paper that dared to question “claims about science being a tool of ‘white power.'”
Apparently, deviating from the left’s obsession that white people are the worst contradicts the journal’s “values.” From The College Fix:
The article, “He Wero Ano: Don’t Just Tell Me, Show Me How Science and Psychology Are Racist in New Zealand,” no longer appears on the journal website.
Published in 2025, author Arna Mitchell critiqued what she described as “broad,” unsubstantiated claims of systemic racism in “psychology across all levels of the discipline,” including that “science itself is a social construct of white Europeans” and “white power.”
More specifically, the article, a screenshot of which author and evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams shared on X, critiques efforts to include Māori “ways of knowing” into psychology training.
Mitchell, a Māori woman herself, disagreed that tribal “ways of knowing should be given equal weight to scientific ways of knowing in the training and practice of psychologists in New Zealand.”
The article received pushback soon after being published. In December, four scholars wrote a response, a copy of which appears at Research Gate, arguing that Mitchell’s definitions of “psychology” and “science” were too “narrow.”
“Her argument was based on the view that Kaupapa Maori psychology consists merely of tales, stories, and spiritual or belief-based interventions that have yet to be justified as ‘science,’” they wrote.
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“If it can’t be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another – but which one? Differences are crucial.” — Robert A. Heinlein
I’m unsure that quoting Robert A. Heinlein is gonna carry the day.
Besides, even though it’s a social “science”, is it really science? Maybe we’re in a category error in the first place.
The Left in NZ are groupthink aligned to ensuring the former colony ceases to be a Western, British and European majority, English speaking nation. Things like the scientific method and logic are thus impermissible.
If anyone questions this, just look at the continuing efforts to wipe English names from use, and either replace them exclusively with Polynesian ones, or ensure naming and approval is exclusively funnelled through one Polynesian tribe or another. Alternatively look at English language newspaper articles and how English terminology is being supplanted by Polynesian terminology to the point they’re increasingly incomprehensible to English speakers.
Questioning the jackbooted march away from modernity, history, and a common language is of course impermissible according to privileged Woke types.
Psychology is hardly science to begin with. Like was said, show me the numbers and measurements.