22 Maranga Mai! abnormal, untrustworthy, primitive and threatening. White supremacy calls for the disintegration and assimilation of Māori society and the merging of all cultures into an illusory ‘one nation’ that rejects Māori as valid citizens, whether assimilated or not. society and culture. Local and international research indicates that the volume and intensity of white supremacist ideology (in Aotearoa) and activism has increased significantly in the past three years (Spoonley, P., 2022). White supremacy explains the inequities and inequalities that afflict Māori as the outcome of a “lazy, ignorant, abusive, brutal, and intellectually and morally inferior Māori culture and people” (HalkyardHarawira, 2021). White privilege is the inter-generational political, economic, social and cultural benefits and advantages that colonial settlers accumulate through the appropriation of Indigenous lands, natural resources and wealth. White supremacy entrenches and preserves white privilege through the monopoly control of institutions maintaining racist inequities and inequalities through the perpetual structural marginalisation of Indigenous peoples and societies. White supremacy maintains a political, economic, cultural, ideological and religious system that through overt and covert, and explicit and implicit means, maintain white dominance and Indigenous subjugation for the benefit of white