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A protest by Māori members in the New Zealand Parliament recently went viral on X and TikTok.
I need this photo plastered everywhere across Aotearoa.
Look what happens when you try and rewrite history and diminish Maori.
Toitu Te Tiriti ✊🏽 pic.twitter.com/LVgn8HdW8W
— VaiTribe🇼🇸 (@VaiTr1be) November 14, 2024
Here’s what the Māori Party thinks of equal rights and democracy. pic.twitter.com/42Ssh2vipK
— ACT New Zealand (@actparty) November 14, 2024
704k likes pic.twitter.com/77zSBMAMM0
— Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator (@NapoleonBonabot) November 19, 2024
A similar protest took place in Wellington.
Māori protest in New Zealand against a bill to give equal rights to citizens of all races: pic.twitter.com/8n6SWfoeV9
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 19, 2024
Over 40,000 people protested outside parliament to oppose a new bill that could reshape the country's founding treaty between the indigenous Maori people and the British crown. pic.twitter.com/jrAy7jFUie
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 19, 2024
While some may argue this is about resistance to colonization, it is in opposition to equal rights. Despite these protests, a new bill that would eliminate some of the special communal rights that Māori enjoy under the Treaty of Waitangi has begun progress through the legislature.
A minor partner in the ruling coalition, the Act Party, introduced the law. As party leader David Seymour explained, the status quo gave Māori “different rights from other New Zealanders.” Mr. Seymour has also attacked the Solicitor-General for telling prosecutors to “think carefully” if a Māori person was to be charged for a crime, implying that Māoris deserve more lenient treatment. The Māori party “Te Pāti Māori” compared the Act Party to the KKK, and a member of the Labour Party called David Seymour a “liar.” The Labour member was forced to leave the chamber for breaking its rules.
The bill is unlikely to pass. The other parties in the governing coalition are lukewarm towards it, and it may not even get a formal reading.
Māori anger comes despite years of groveling to them. The government had commissioned a report to find out why Māori are arrested more often and, naturally, concluded it was due to “systemic racism.” Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern officially made a “long overdue” apology to the Māori. The government recognized Māori New Year as an official holiday in 2022. A statue of Captain Cook was removed after protests from local Māori. The Parliament even abandoned its rule requiring men to wear neckties because the leader of the Māori party said it was a “colonial noose.”
Not surprisingly, none of this led to reconciliation. Instead, Māori are demanding major changes, including abolition of prisons and changing the name of the country to Aotearoa. The haka dance, often defended as a ritual of welcome or celebration, is exactly what the original British explorers though it was: a war dance. To do it on the floor of Parliament is an outrage.
“Warrior culture” posturing and threatening gestures mix uneasily with complaints about exploitation or colonization. The Māori want it both ways: victim status and deference to a warrior culture.
“Decolonization” in the West is almost always this unnatural combination. From Chicano activists in the Southwest celebrating the savage Aztec heritage, to blacks putting up monuments to Nat Turner, to the behavior of many Muslims in Europe, non-whites always seem to be at whites’ throats or at our feet — sometimes simultaneously.
If the Māori find equal rights appalling, it is time to ditch the pretense of coexistence. Still, this spectacle confirms that almost everyone is a blood-and-soil nationalist — at least for the groups he likes. A solution would be to give the Māori territory and let them indulge in whatever silly rituals they want — on their own. There should be no aid, no special rights in New Zealand, and no citizenship in a Western country. Separation is the only solution for non-whites who claim that equal treatment is exploitation. And if the Aotearoans want to bring back the traditional practice of cannibalism, that will be their business. They should be entirely on their own.
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Of course, once the western European nations become majority third world origin sometime in this century, the indigenous white population of those nations can expect precisely zero legal recognition of the priority of their settlement and ancient attachment to the land. No, exactly the reverse. They will still be despised as oppressors by the black/brown ruling majority – and treated as such, despite the fact that will have absolutely no political power by then.
Be warned.
‘Māori anger comes despite years of groveling to them’
The anger comes BECAUSE of the grovelling to them. They dont respect it.
‘Separation is the only solution for non-whites who claim that equal treatment is exploitation.’
YUP
I would hazard a bet the problem really stems from promises made promises unkept.
Repeatedly the powers that be would make promises they either did not intend to keep or were rebuffed by the public at large (the white pblic at large)
Now not living in New Zealand it’s only a guess based on the history of colonial power conduct toward the native populations they inhabited/conquored/persuaded . . . what have you.
And as for antics, as I recall in US Congress, one congressman beat another congressman nearly to death. Cngresses the world over have intense, loud, disruptive members and nonmembers who engage in such conduct.
January 6 comes to mind.
It’s a strange inversion for the left wing to be defending ethnic privileges, on the highly consistent and reciprocally-granted principles that (1) because history is specific not universal, settled nation-defining peoples should have more rights in those nations than outsiders, and (2) a treaty signed by the colonial representatives of the British Crown before the franchise had even been extended to skilled laborers represents eternal values on which the sun should never be allowed to set, and it would be “undemocratic” for the voters of a 21st century multiethnic republic to be able to re-evaluate whether 180 year old commitments are in their interests any longer.
Are you interested in what actually happened on J6? Maybe not because it doesn’t line up with an anti-white narrative. But if you read this book you will get to find out about 2 completely innocent white Trump supporters who were murdered by the cops at the Capitol on J6 (what, you only heard about one?):
Let me get this straight
Long ago the British invaded New Zealand.
The British found that they could not defeat the natives
So they made a peace agreement with them
If the British had not made a peace agreement they might have been driven off of the Island.
Now the British want to change the rules
I’m on the side of the natives here
Just as I’m on the side of the Irish over the Brits and the Palestinians over the fake Jews.
If the invaders don’t like it they can go back where they came from.
Segregation might be best for both white and Maori. I’m not sure about the history of Fiji, but their take on culture seems to be more traditional. Here the Fijian national rugby team shows respect to the president of Ireland before playing against the Irish team. Apparently it’s considered a sign of respect towards elders to take a knee when greeting them in a healthier traditional culture:
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Hmmmm . . . I am pretty sure I know what happened on 6 Jan. There was a peaceful protest. Some number of the protestors, got out of hand and by force or by coercion entered the capital building disrupting the business of Congress.
The minute they entered the capital in the manner they did their were in violation of the law. And it is fortunate that only one person was shot and killed — tragic. But it was not peaceable or wise for anyone to come through windows. You and I both know that had those same protestors been black — more than one person would be dead.
I think the protests were fine, even warranted given what we know about the election process. But when they entered the building, enter offices and spaces without permission – they violated the law. And I find it very interesting that supposed republicans or conservatives who bandy about law and order — broken windows — and similar standards were anything but disappointed. Because up until that incident, any possible fair hearing on the election — became moot.
As I said, New Zealand does not own disruptive conduct in legislative venues.
It is hard for me to defend this:
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/18/1008211655/new-videos-underscore-the-violence-against-police-at-the-jan-6-capitol-riot
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Now I am aware that some officials did open the door and lead the protestors through the building to avoid conflict — however, they never should have been in that position.
As for the overcharging — welcome to the real world. As inner city populations about how prosecutors prosecute — over charging is par for the course. Now my side of the aisle has applauded these tactics when used against the black population, but when the its time to pay the piper. Whites are demanding special privilege’s.