It was Hipkins who ruled out NZF,
A "wishy washy Blairite wilderness" worked fairly well for John Key
The days of ideological ride or die party membership has been over for one or two generations now. Politics is very much issue based now. Even unions have adopted a more identity-based politics and Labour is fully aware of this. Ardern's Labour got in the ...
The frustrating thing is that it isn't just passengers and vehicles. It means a lot of freight is going to have to be shipped coastally as well - probably planned as it will impact NZR's competitiveness against the global giants.
The only racism showing is yours, because at this point I can't just dismiss it as ignorance.
I'm pretty sure a lot of people who otherwise agree with the right to protest and the issue being protested, have, like me, a visceral reaction to masked people smashing things in museums.
Oh ffs, it's like arguing with a Dalek. Pākehā institutions reflect Pākehā cultural norms, assumptions and biases. You know, like yours.
Even if that is true – which I suspect it is not – what is the relevance to modern day legislation and policy? The acknowledgement of Māori as the indigenous people of Aotearoa and the respect of the culture and customary rights.
It's like trying to talk to a particularly ignorant and stubborn brick wall. Forget your eyes, and engage your brain. You first. You seem to think that Māori are the bottom of metrics due to "colonisation". But you fail to give any specifics over what ...
There is a principle of International Law that the indigenous version should prevail in case of conflict and the rationale behind this is clear. Why should a dominant foreign power refuse to do something it has promised to local people in their own ...
Claiming that "Peters, Seymour and Jones are still Māori even if they're against everything that potentially stands for." – implies that only the politically activist TMP and left wing politicians truly speak for Maori. Logic mustn't be your strong point ...
Sigh.
Well if it's not ignorance, I can only conclude it's racism
Yes, I threw them together into sentences to explain that colonisation is an ongoing reality for indigenous peoples, not a done and dusted historical artefact. What is happening in terms of "colonisation" in NZ at present that needs addressing? I think I ...
That’s not a reasoned response. Looking up the definition still doesn’t mean it existed in terms of access to services in NZ. Racism has not been shown to exist at institutional levels. I gave you the answer. Five minutes reading a couple of definitions ...
No, that wasn't the question, and Winston Peters, David Seymour and Shane Jones have just as much credibility to claim to speak for Māori who voted for them as Debbie Ngarewa-Packer or Marama Davidson. Māori aren't some kind of Borg hive mind. But not ...
I'm sorry, are currently experiencing colonisation? Just in case you thought it was a historical thing, it isn't. It's ongoing, and this coalition is a pretty good example of that.
Well willful obtuseness and silly straw man questions only lead to so many conclusions. While you're looking things up, add "concern trolling" to the list.
Come on, nothing is ever in isolation. Unless you want to live under a rock. Te Papa and that particular signage predates the current government by decades. It's pretty clear you don't understand the decision-making structure at Te Papa, but even if there...
If the hood fits...
You're being willfully obtuse. Māori is defined by whakapapa / genealogy. No one is collectively ignoring those other contributing ethnicities. Within Te Tiriti they are covered by the Crown. Nor were they the indigenous peoples of this land who had ...
Then you must be remarkably unobservant. ACT and NZF are populists playing to cookers and culture warriors. Happy? Not that it has anything to do with Te Papa operations, but whatever.
Māori ethnicity – which is unable to be defined accurately, (and has no shared experience, need or provision), with those concerned about women's rights and provisions – is a poor comparator As far as I'm aware it's accurately defined as having whakapapa ...
Operational health and safety. Oh, and the whole vandalism part.
Well no, now they go before the courts. What's wrong with staging a protest in front of Te Papa?
It's had the opposite effect on me, so good luck with that
And? I'm fine with the reasons they're protesting and they have a valid point, but at the end of the day they're just one group. They haven't said "we'd like to highlight discrepancies between the translations for the benefit of public understanding," ...
Unbunch your panties, sweetheart, I most certainly ain't no Christian. And the average Enlightenment philosopher weren't no Atheist by modern definitions. Deist ≠ Atheist. And the main resistance to UNDRIP in Aotearoa is that several significant parts of ...
It is also quite unreasonable to equate the Enlightment with virtue, not least because they were a bunch of deists who spent far too much time trying to justify European superiority and imperialism. Potayto, potahto
Do you feel better now?
He would hardly be the first politician to toe the party line and swallow the dead rats out of misplaced loyalty or sunk cost fallacy. Nick Smith did it all the time as Environment Minister. Chris Bishop no doubt still stings over having that cross-bench ...
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