Tross Publishing has been around for several years, during which time it has attracted numerous smears and complaints from mediocre and agenda-driven academics, and other Europhobes, resulting in some of its books being removed and banned from bookshops and libraries. Tross, owned by John McLean, focuses on reconsidering the colonial and pre-colonial histories of New Zealand, challenging the dominance of
Europhobic narratives. The authors garnered by Tross are often of scholarly background, including Dr John Robinson and Dr David Round. This has not dissuaded those of lesser scholarly pedigree from denouncing the books, with titles such as
The Benefits of Colonisation, and
The British Empire: A Force for Good.
From a traditional Rightist position, there is a doctrinal gulf in some of the premises of Tross authors, such as the promotion of the assimilationist, “one New Zealand” outlook,
[1] where we are all raceless individuals bonded by a social contract (in this case, the Treaty of Waitangi, Tross authors dissenting from the modern interpretation enforced by the dominant narrative). This leaves such neoliberals, regarded as “conservative” or “right-wing,” in the odd position of condemning
apartheid[2] in their opposition to “Māori separatism,” due to a lack of doctrinal and historical coherence.
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