Its Newshub of course, and to be fair, the writer is comparatively young, and new to the job. However, its not a difficult subject. Why would you accept that a petition calling for everyone to be treated equally under the law is racist? A letter calling on citizens to sign a petition has been dropped in letterboxes across the Bay

NZ media reports that a Christchurch woman, apparently white and with the surname Duff has been charged with insulting an Arabic women in a local Farmer’s store. Police apparently used a law from the Summary Offences Act 1981 Section 4 (1) c (I) and charged the women with using insulting words while being reckless about whether any person was alarmed