Māori lawmakers who performed a protest haka receive temporary bans from New Zealand’s Parliament

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1. Looks less worse than some other parliaments that actually have physical assault and threats, and people violating personal space in a much more rude way.

2. Despicable. treat indigenous communities as partners in society instead of a second class that gets nothing but lip service.
   Liberals think they treat indigenous people well because they are less overtly racist but still do nothing but admit to a white washed version of there own history of abuse.

3. It also happens to be the worst punishment handed out in the history of New Zealand government. It’s interesting to note what wasn’t punished in a similar timeframe: driving onto parliament steps in a Range Rover or encouraging a massive occupation of parliament grounds.

4. tldr :

   > The English and Māori language versions of the (1840) treaty differed and the Crown immediately began to breach both, resulting in mass land thefts and generations of disenfranchisement for Māori, who remain disadvantaged on almost every metric. But in recent decades, Māori protest movements have wrought growing recognition of the Treaty’s promises in New Zealand’s law, politics and public life.

   > That produced billion-dollar land settlements with tribes and strategies to advance Indigenous language and culture. Such policies were the target of the bill, drawn up by a minor libertarian party who denounced what they said was special treatment for Māori as they tried to rewrite the treaty’s promises.

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