Parliament suspended as Maori reps perform Haka.
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@jcrabapple
I love the energy but what the hell did i just watch?
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@jcrabapple This is f’in baller.
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@photovotary @RnDanger @jcrabapple
But the article doesn't give a clear image of the situation. It sounds like indigenous people in New Zealand has supremacy and rights that others don't have (with only 20% of the population) and now they don't want to give this up. I find this actually hard to believe.
Sooo... What is going on there
But thanks for the context it's not your job to explain new Zealand politics to us.
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@tamonten @jcrabapple Can I get some context? (I mean, suspending parliament isn't kinda bad?, this may be a.mistranslation on my part, too)
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@Nixie @tamonten this was their way of protesting a treaty bill that they didn't like.
New Zealand MPs disrupt parliament with haka to protest Indigenous treaty bill | CNN
New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori.
CNN (www.cnn.com)
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@jcrabapple @nellie_m Honestly, I’d be delighted if this sort of passion and pride were displayed in our politics. Much respect
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@benjamincox @nellie_m lol imagine this in America. There are far too many white people in Congress. What are they going to do? The boot scootin' boogie?
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@jcrabapple @benjamincox @nellie_m also, they’re all like, 90, so they’d probably break a hip.
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David Mitchell :CApride:replied to Jcrabapple 💙 last edited by
So my understanding from the article is that this was just first reading and it is expected to fail after this, but Maori people are still protesting massively. This is fabulous… we should all aim to be this demanding and disruptive even for threats that are only theoretical or performative.
“Hundreds have set out on a nine-day march”
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nanosekundereplied to David Mitchell :CApride: last edited by
Would you say the same if it were Republicans in the US ripping abortion rights?
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David Mitchell :CApride:replied to nanosekunde last edited by
This *is* how Republicans have been, we need to fight back with the same proactive vigor.
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nanosekundereplied to David Mitchell :CApride: last edited by
@DavidM_yeg @tamonten @Nixie
I don't know. That's kind of legitimises their behaviour and I don't want give them that angle to attack. -
David Mitchell :CApride:replied to nanosekunde last edited by
Let’s be clear what is being ‘legitimized’ here: a brief interruption of parliamentary process to protest an attack against them as a people, and a protest march and demonstration.
These *are* tools of protest - always have been - and without them, we sit quietly on our hands while injustice is done, and that seems worse to me.
Demands for ‘civility’ can be a form of oppression too.
