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[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year 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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[-] Fizz 22 points 1 year ago

Race relations are cooked. Its only going to get worse from here. Thanks national.

[-] BalpeenHammer 10 points 1 year ago

NACT was itching to start a race war and they did.

[-] deadbeef79000 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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)

[-] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] deadbeef79000 1 points 1 year ago

That refreshing to read.

It's always nice to set bullies get some blue back.

[-] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Damn I hope that doesn't pass

[-] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Dave 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] aim_at_me 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed. This was the sad part.

[-] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Ilovethebomb 11 points 1 year ago

The haka itself was a few months ago.

[-] BalpeenHammer 3 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] deadbeef79000 6 points 1 year ago

The wheels of beauraucracy turn slowly

[-] Ilovethebomb 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] BalpeenHammer 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If the rules are so strict how come they waited 5 months to implement the punishment?

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