• go $fsck yourself@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    That’s fucked up. A haka should be taken very seriously. She used a haka to make the statement specifically to utilize the most powerful tool available to convey the message. It’s a traditional form of communication of the people she represents. She was doing her job in the best way possible. They clearly missed the entire point, since they are treating it the same as “yelling”, as if it was a childish reactionary response, instead of a carefully considered and measured response.

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    28 days ago

    We’ll have no nonsense from those uppity natives while government tries to retroactively rewrite history with legislation.

    Speaker of the House, Chair of the Privileges Committee (probably)

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      It didn’t. Not even close. It failed 121-11

      Those 11 were members of the party that proposed it, and every other party voted against it unanimously.

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        The beauty of it all is that the actual step back for the treaty happened in the resource management act changes, while everyone was focused on the treaty principles bill.

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        25 days ago

        Thanks for letting me know. I’m not from NZ but I met some Maori years ago doing a tour and thought that they were really cool and awesome people. So even though I’m not from around there or directly affected I still like showing support when I can.

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    Didn’t this happen a couple months ago as well? Guess it was a good publicity move?