Māori Party MPs suspended over haka protest in NZ parliament
Māori Party MPs suspended over haka protest in NZ parliament
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Māori Party MPs suspended over haka protest in NZ parliament
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Race relations are cooked. Its only going to get worse from here. Thanks national.
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NACT was itching to start a race war and they did.
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We'll have no nonsense from those uppity natives while government tries to retroactively rewrite history with legislation.
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Speaker of the House,Chair of the Privileges Committee (probably)-
In this case the Speaker is actually pushing back against the committee's recommendations. There's a really good write up from RNZ here: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/561329/the-house-parliamentary-privileges-race-as-an-aggravating-factor
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That refreshing to read.
It's always nice to set bullies get some blue back.
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Damn I hope that doesn't pass
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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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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?
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The haka itself was a few months ago.
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Man few months to punish the people who broke decorum. They are really falling behind. How can they possibly let this breaking of decorum be unpunished for months! The decorum was broken! This shall not stand!!!!
The decorum is the most important thing in the universe!
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The wheels of beauraucracy turn slowly
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Honestly, parliament has strict rules around decorum for a reason, if they didn't our politicians would be screaming at each other on a daily basis.
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If my politicians actually screamed at each other and disrupted the process rather than peacefully resigning to fascism then i might feel like they give a shit for once.
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Oh my decorum! How precious my decorum is! It's the most important thing in the universe.
P.S. White people can break decorum anytime they want though like for example using the C word in parliament.
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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.
Time and place though, this was done in such a way that it would disrupt a vote in Parliament, which is kinda one of the most important things they do.
Letting this go would have set a terrible precedent.
No shit? That was very clearly the point. However, that was the "time and place", after already attempting to handle it in their oppressor's preferred "time and place" they had to stand up and show how serious they were about opposing a new interpretation of law that would diminish their rights.
Letting it go would have set a terrible precedent, indeed. If they just "let it go" without protest they would have let their people lose their rights.
What they did was stand up for their people (what they are supposed to do) with the utmost conviction, instead of "letting it go". That's something that should be honored, not punished.
I know you meant "letting this go" as in not punishing their protest, but that's completely ignoring the fact they fucked up first in pushing them to need to protest in the first place.
Oh no. She broke decorum. How dare she! I guess to you guys decorum is more important than lives and suffering of actual real human beings.
If you only follow the rules of people in power, protest will be sidelined to where it causes no disruption. Which makes it very ineffective, which of course is the point.