Why New Zealand is seeing mass protests over Māori rights - "Seymour‘s proposed law would set specific definitions of the treaty’s principles, and would apply them to all New Zealanders, not only to Māori. He says piecemeal construction of the treaty’s meaning has left a vacuum and has given Māori special treatment. His bill is widely opposed — by left- and right-wing former prime ministers, 40 of the country’s most senior lawyers, and thousands of Māori and non-Māori New Zealanders who are walking the length of the country in protest... Detractors say the bill threatens constitutional upheaval and would remove rights promised in the treaty that are now enshrined in law. Critics have also lambasted Seymour -– who is Māori -– for provoking backlash against Indigenous people."
When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression
Maori haka in NZ parliament to protest at bill to reinterpret founding treaty - "New Zealand's parliament was brought to a temporary halt by MPs performing a haka, amid anger over a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret the country's founding treaty with Māori people. Opposition party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke began the traditional ceremonial group dance after being asked whether her party supported the bill... Under the proposed legislation, the treaty principles that would be defined in law are:
that the government has a right to govern and that parliament has the full right to make laws
that the rights of Māori are respected by the Crown
that everyone is equal before the law and is entitled to equal protection under it.
Act leader Seymour - who is also New Zealand's associate justice minister - argues that because the principles have never been properly defined legally, the courts "have been able to develop principles that have been used to justify actions that are contrary to the principle of equal rights". He says these include "ethnic quotas in public institutions" that go against the spirit of fairness for all New Zealanders."
National Conservative on X - "How many of you know what the Maori were actually protesting? This was in opposition to a bill by the Libertarian party that declares all races have equal rights in New Zealand. Maori activists see this as a threat to their government benefits."
tumi | she her they on X - [On the Haka in NZ Parliament] "Whites calling this "cringe" because they're mad they don't have culture."
Paul on X - "The reason they don't think White people have culture is because they are bathing in our culture. Tumi is speaking english, on a White made and owned social media site via a piece of technology also invented and made by a White guy. They don't see it because its all around"
A fish doesn't notice water
Fubadu on X - "As a Māori myself I see this behaviour & it's just outright embarrassing. Cringe level 1000. They are behaving like uncivilised cave people that have no place in parliament. No wonder the vast majority of Māori vote for someone else."
Woke Preacher Clips on X - "The reason she's ripping up this bill is because it states: "All New Zealanders are equal under the law with the same rights and duties." This is unacceptable to the Maori. Third-Wayists who whine about the Imago Dei every time a criminal gets handcuffed will have nothing to say"
La Comtesse de Monte Cristo on X - "One thing about the Maori: they will remind you that New Zealand is their land and they won’t negotiate on their freedom to cultural expression. Deal with it."
Bonchie on X - "It’s not their land. They showed up and massacred the original tribes and then bartered in severed human heads. They aren’t morally superior. They aren’t indigenous. They are cringe pagans who want their government benefits to keep flowing. That’s all any of this is about."
blighter on X - "important to remember that, while America is an illegitimate country sitting on stolen land stolen via vile genocide, New Zealand belongs to the Maori by ancient right of “they showed up 600 years ago and killed everyone already living there”"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "The Maori are just the people who conquered NZ before the whites. They ate the previous inhabitants: look up "Moriori barbecue (or genocide)." Great warriors, but one of the least inherently "sympathetic" human groups I can imagine."
Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator on X - "Friendly reminder that Notre-Dame de Paris is older than the Maori presence on New Zealand."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "No one is "terrified" of Maori millionaires doing the dance they did before lost wars with the West. "Sick of this crap, and maybe about to start retaliating" is the phrase you are looking for."
Meme - memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus: "Either race is important or it’s not. The left has been trying for years to have it both ways and they allowed these attitudes to foster."
Drew Paviou @Drew...: "Blood and soil race nationalism but make it lefty coded"
Veronica Koman @Veronic...: "The sovereigns are sovereigning *Maori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke performing Haka* *Lidia Thorpe (Australian Aboriginal senator) giving Black power salute as she calls Queen Elizabeht a coloniser*"
Basically, white people are evil
jerk on X - "I’m not saying no, but should government representatives really be doing a war dance meant to physically intimidate enemies while conducting official business? Not saying it wouldn’t be funny for a US congressman to show up with a cane as a throwback message to his opps, tho"
nobody on X - "All they succeeded in doing was delay the vote. They still lost, and this “protest” was probably a contributing factor."
plebe on X - "One of my best friends is a Māori living here for the past 24 years. He and another one did a haka at my wedding and even he says the bloodline is so thin that there literally isn’t a full blooded Māori in NZ. He looks Māori af and he’s a 1/16. All they have is the haka now."
New Zealand Parliament suspended after haka protest over Māori rights bill : r/anime_titties - "I don't think they need a haka to understand why quotas for minorities are a bad idea..."
"It’s not just quotas. It’s medical unis having a lower threshold for Maori and Pacifica. It’s those places being fully funded. It’s cultural reports being used by gangs to get out of jail. It’s a whole host of things that this Haka and circus in Parliament when people tried to discuss it will just polarise people even more."
New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment - "Three New Zealand MPs who performed a haka in parliament will be temporarily suspended, in what is believed to be the harshest ever penalty issued to parliamentarians... the privileges committee recommended suspending Ngarewa-Packer and Waititi for three weeks – an unprecedented penalty – and Maipi-Clarke for seven days, saying the trio’s actions could have intimidated other legislators and were in contempt of parliament. Haka have been performed in parliament in the past, including by Waititi, but the committee said the manner and timing of this haka, which interrupted other members’ ability to vote on the bill, was “a serious matter”... The report said it was unacceptable for Ngarewa-Packer to appear to simulate a firing a gun at another member of parliament with her hand"
Meme - Gabriel @gbrl_dick: "when you’re in a land acknowledgement competition and your opponent is an american living in berlin"
"We acknowledge the ancestral and traditional territories of the Semnones, Burgundians, Hevelli and Sprevane tribes who were the original Germanic and Slavic inhabitants of the lands which we currently call Berlin. We recognize that Berlin has been and continues to be the home of many different peoples from around the world At the same time, we recognized that not all peoples have been welcomed on the land and that acts of genocide have been perpetuated in the name of protecting the land. We seek to respect the land, the diversity of peoples, and the complex histories of Berlin as we engage in Future Monuments. Land acknowledgement"
Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 on X - "In Canada performing the land acknowledgement is more important than updating the people on the status of two missing children."
Upstate Federalist on X - "Once you understand that they're a stand-in for an opening prayer, it makes more sense."
For some reason, they had to celebrate black people too
cbcwatcher on X - "Rosemary Barton peddles in misinformation about misinformation "Yes, there have been remains of indigenous children found in various places around the country which she misrepresented. " No there have not Rosie! Most Canadians had to find out from foreign journalists that no remains have been found"
Former residential school student debunks 'genocide' claims, recalls positive experience - "An Indigenous whistleblower shared his positive experience at a Residential school, debunking the claim that the schools abused and murdered their students. In an April 5 interview with Rebel News reporter Drea Humphrey, a Kamloops Band member and former Kamloops Indian Residential School student revealed that there was no “genocide” at the schools and many students benefited from the institution. “A lot of the students were happy to be there,” the Band member, whose identity was kept anonymous, said. “They were away from abusive families, dysfunctional families, alcoholism. So, they were happy to be there.” The former student revealed that he was treated well during his time at the residential schools in the 1970s. He also described the priests and nuns who ran the school as good people, referring to Father Noonan, the principal at the time, as “a real nice guy.”"
Time to jail this Denier!
B.C. court asked to order end of land acknowledgements at UBC - "A group of University of British Columbia professors, along with one former graduate student, wants the B.C. Supreme Court to order the school to stop declaring or acknowledging its campuses are on unceded Indigenous land. “Many people find them uncontroversial, but land acknowledgements make a claim about who is sovereign on a particular territory, whether or not Canada is legitimately sovereign, and whether the land is stolen land,” said Josh Dehaas, a Calgary-based lawyer representing the petitioners. Professors Andrew Irvine, Brad Epperly, Christopher Kam and Michael Treschow are the petitioners in the case, along with former graduate student Nathan Cockram... The petition, filed Monday in B.C. Supreme Court, cites a section of B.C.’s University Act, which states “a university must be non-sectarian and non-political in principal.”... The petition also takes issue with some of the university’s policies around diversity, equity and inclusion. It seeks an order “prohibiting and restraining UBC from requiring expressions of agreement with, fidelity to or loyalty to diversity, equity and inclusion doctrines, or any other political beliefs, as a condition of applying for UBC faculty positions and/or as a condition of appointment as UBC faculty.” Dehaas said his clients feel like the school is silencing them."
Thread by @preta_6 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The policy at @VCHhealthcare says that if 3 or more people are meeting, there must be a land acknowledgement performed first. They made leadership attend training sessions so you could “personalize” the land acknowledgement you give at meetings. You had to find some way to relate your own life to the land acknowledgment you gave. So this meant that you’d hear these forced, awkward, and barely sensical anecdotes included with the endless acknowledgments at the start of every meeting. Every high paid bureaucrat droning on about how they always think of indigenous persons when they drive past the Tim Hortons on Cambie street or some crap. It was bizarre and completely pointless. And has done exactly nothing to help indigenous persons. I escaped a cult. Thousands of their staff feel the same as me but no one is going to say anything. Might as well be me—since they fired me for knowing that humans do not change sex. Thinking about reporting the women who fired me to HR, because they did not perform a land acknowledgement before they did it "
How to I start a presentation without a land acknowledgement? : r/AskAcademia - "I recently moved to the United Kingdom from Australia. Previously I always started presentations with a land acknowledgement, partly because it was the norm and partly to make a point about how Australia had come to exist. I would always be able to relate this to what I was talking about or at the very least create a smooth change of subject. Now that I'm in the UK I need to give a presentation, but I don't know how to start it off. How else do people start presentations"
Thread by @MungoManic on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "This week, one of the most important fossils ever found in Australia (and perhaps the world) was taken to an undisclosed location, put in a hole and covered with dirt. WLH-50, the Garnpung Giant. I've spent hundreds of hours reading about this incredible cranium and scouring the corners of the internet for data and images. But I never got to see it in person, and now I never will. The huge cranium was 210mm long and on average 16mm thick. It had many archaic features including a continuous brow ridge. Unlike most Australian fossils the bone was completely replaced by silica. Much of the skull was missing, but here's my guess of what WLH-50 looked it:
Worse, WLH-50 was just one of 108 Pleistocene Australians being buried this week. Many likely contained DNA. There is so much we could have known about these mysterious people. Will the fossils be safe in the ground? No. The reconstructed specimens will fall apart, the fragments will be subject to hostile soil conditions, and eventually they’ll erode and be destroyed by the weather, just like the unexcavated fossils at Willandra Lakes"
Michael Westaway on X - "UNESCO are investigating now, and will likely request input from international experts in palaeoanthropology. This is a positive development"
Thread by @EB40988 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "If you are wondering why the Aboriginals don't like this, they claim to be the world's oldest continuous culture based on a cave painting (now lost), however they don't allow DNA testing of old fossils, why? They weren't the first ones here, just like the Maoi's... They killed the original inhabitants and settled in here, they hid this evidence as I'm sure they are afraid of being found out, they weren't around for 60,000 years and they were not living in harmony with each other, they are violent savages who commited genocide."
Mungo Manic on X - "150+ fossils from Willandra Lakes, Australia are in danger of being reburied. The oldest and most famous (WLH 3 aka Mungo Man) has already been destroyed As Michael says this is one of the most important collections of ancient human fossils anywhere in the world"
Mungo Manic on X - "Sadly, our petition was unsuccessful. The thousands of fossils from Willandra Lakes are being buried. The last ones will be underground by the end of next week Soon there'll be no Pleistocene human fossils left in Australia"
Peter Hague on X - "Scientific evidence is literally being destroyed in Australia because it threatens someone’s creation myth. An absolute travesty."
Science is dangerous when it threatens the left wing agenda
Alex Zoltan on X - "To celebrate Truth and Reconciliation Day I'm reposting a video of FN women kicking out a CBC reporter from their presser after the sycophant regime fellators tried simping for Justin Trudeau."
This is amazing. So many incoherent left wing buzzwords and so much anti-white racism on display
First Nations women ask a CBC reporter to leave their presser : r/Canada_sub - "That's because there is no consequences to doing this, progressives will agree with her and push for even more money / special rights / land back bullshit. We've essentially flipped the script, where it's no longer about fighting for equality for all, but rather handing over power and money to them willingly. It's completely illogical to be beholden to and insulted by people with no actual power, but here we are."
First Nations women ask a CBC reporter to leave their presser : r/Canada_sub - "I find it tragic how they keep referring to the missing and murdered native women, but will refuse to allow any « white » police services on their reservations to investigate these crimes. They much rather use their heavily-corrupted « peacekeepers », who are there to protect the criminal activities of the hereditary chiefs and their entourage."
Meme - "Imagine being a Native American in 1492 and seeing this bizarre thing step off a ship *white faced European with wig*
Imagine being a Spaniard in 1518 and stepping off a ship to see this bizarre thing murder a child and eat their heart *Native warrior*"
They came fleeing communism. Now Canada’s expropriating their property - "Ahn Nguyen fled Vietnam with her parents when the communists took over in 1975. They lost their home and land but considered themselves fortunate to be able to start over again in Canada. She then met her husband, Tien, and 35 years ago the family began fishing for elvers — tiny translucent baby eels netted in Maritime rivers and shipped to Asia where they are grown for food... Ottawa has announced a “pilot project” that will take three-quarters of their quota, without compensating the Nguyens, and offer it to First Nations and to their own employees... “This is exactly what the communists did in 1975 — taking private property away. It’s nonsense,” said Anh Nguyen. “We fled our country thinking we had found freedom, equity and the rule of law. But I’m starting to have my doubts.” We are at the stage in the life of this government where it has run out of innovative ideas and is falling back on reflexive economic interventionism, a self-defeating policy that usually leaves things worse off than they were before. As Ludwig von Mises warned in his classic study, Bureaucracy, “they promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office… Common sense is needed to prevent man from falling prey to illusory fantasies and empty catchwords”. The minister’s idea that her new policy is going to spread prosperity up and down the East Coast is just such an illusory fantasy."
'It's just shocking': Liberal cabinet minister's shifting Indigenous identity scorned - "Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault says his shifting claims from being “non-status adoptive Cree” to recently stating his adoptive mother is “status Métis” are a “reflection of his family exploring their own history” and not him claiming Indigenous status... Boissonnault’s links to Indigenous identity are under scrutiny following revelations last week in National Post that a company he co-owned — Global Health Imports (GHI) — unsuccessfully bid on two federal contracts in 2020 while declaring itself to be “Indigenous” and “Aboriginal owned.” A federal program prioritizes suppliers that properly qualify as Indigenous-owned on some contracts. In reaction to the story, the Liberal MP and cabinet minister published a first statement Friday attempting to clarify his heritage. However, the statement raised eyebrows because it no longer made mention of the Cree heritage he had previously publicized, but instead noted members of his adopted family were “status Métis.”"
Trudeau minister Randy Boissonnault accused of 'fraud' and 'pretendianism' as calls to resign grow - "former Liberal justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, an Indigenous MP who broke from the party, accused Boissonnault of playing a “shameful and extremely destructive” game of “ancestry wheel of fortune.” “A Prime Minister committed to true reconciliation would have removed Randy… from Cabinet long ago,” she wrote on social media . Conservative MPs have been calling for Boissonnault’s resignation after National Post revealed his company’s Indigenous claims."
No wonder left wingers hate the National Post so much. Inconvenient facts must be buried
Residential schools still thrive in the U.S. What they're doing will shock Canada - "“There are two dogs within me and I’m fighting both and they’re tearing me apart,” Old Elk says. “Being a Native person is the hardest thing. You’re expected to live two lives: this modern life and the Native life.” “Do you wish the white man had never come and you still lived with your traditions and the buffalo?” I ask. “I have a weak mind,” Bucky confesses. “I want to do the Native stuff. But I’ve got my Apple watch, my nice wedding ring. I’d rather be in a car going 80 miles an hour than on a horse going 30. “In modern times, if you’re not going to school, then you’re not getting a good job with the government, you’re not getting all of this stuff, all of these things . “I don’t want to look like a big fat white guy,” he says with a sigh. The corridors of St. Labre are lined with vivid paintings of muscular riflemen on lightning steeds, galloping to glory. Those days are long gone, replaced too often by indigence, diabetes, alcoholism, drug addiction, despair... “Even the other Indians discriminated against me because I am only three-fourths Indian. They started calling me vé’ho’á’e — ‘white woman.’ They even called me ‘Custer,’ and I don’t want to hear no excuses for him."
Thread by @eyeslasho on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "At a South African university, an argument is made to eliminate science from study (because it's a "product of Western modernity) and to "restart [it] from an African perspective." What should be studied? The speaker suggests "black magic." When a "science person" objects, he is scolded by the organizer for "disrespecting the sacredness of this space," and asked to apologize, which he does. But that doesn't stop the scolding. Opinions can only be expressed under rules that appear to guide outcomes. The "black magic" advocate then adds that, despite the fact that she took some science in high school, she decided to not be on the science faculty because science stands in the way of "decolonization." (Note: Africa was decolonized over 50 years ago.) The speaker then finds Newton problematic and implies that the only real way to understand gravity in science is "through an African perspective." She concludes: "Western knowledge is very pathetic to say the least," and universities should "do away with [Western] science entirely." Establishing strict rules for guiding parameters of discussion is something the activist left does everywhere. It's an admission that its ideas can't stand up under the scrutiny allowed in free and open discourse."
Woke 2020 - "Western Knowledge Is Pathetic To Say The Least" - YouTube
Norway Apologizes for Forced Assimilation of Sami and Other Minorities - The New York Times
This is fascinating. Norwegian people are no longer indigenous to Norway. Presumably to be indigenous you need to be backward
