The Human Rights Commission launched the Racism is no joke campaign in July 2020.
The inclusion of a poem by an anti-Chinese extremist in an NCEA level 2 history exam has students calling for better sourcing from the people making the exams. Cadence Chung, 17, sat her end-of-year history test which was about examining “sources of a historical event that is of significance to New Zealanders”. The exam focused on mental health facility, Seacliff, and included people s experiences there. A poem by Lionel Terry – an English man who handed out pamphlets on racial purity and is known for murdering Chinese man Joe Kum Yung on Wellington’s Haining St in 1905 – called Emotional Insanity was included.