Taika Waititi, the director of Hunt for the Wilderpeople, What We Do in the Shadows and Marvel’s upcoming superhero movie Thor: Ragnarok, appears in a video supporting the New Zealand Human Rights Commission’s ‘Give Nothing to Racism’ campaign. Waititi, who was named New Zealander of the year, says ‘There’s no benefit whatsoever to being racist.’

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