As we collectively celebrate the victory of good over evil, spare a thought for ACT, Hobsons Pledge and other rednecks as the Treaty Principles Bill gets smashed in Parliament.
Today is a sad day for Rednecks.
Give that Uncle you don’t invite to Christmas anymore because they listen to The Platform and Reality Check Radio a cuddle because he’s going to be feeling pretty stink.
Don’t forget Aunty Anti-Vax Karen, she’ll be feeling bitter today as well.
Dear rednecks, you are the minority and we aren’t going to tolerate you and your ilk no longer.
Your petty bigotry is the past, our hope is the future.
70% of Māori are under the age of 40. You picked the wrong generation to shit on!
The future is browner, younger and prouder.
The next generation of Pakeha, Pacifica and migrant Kiwi are secure enough in their own cultural identity to not see the respect of Māori culture as a demeaning of their own.
We share this beautiful country with the indigenous peoples of it respectfully and in partnership.
This is not about and has never been about ‘special race rights’ for Māori.
It has always been about legal rights Māori have because of the contract they signed with the Crown!
Watching Right Wingers who fetishise property rights twist this away from a legal contract rights issue into an existential race war against apartheid is demeaning of the intellectual worth of the Political Right.
Give Cracker a cuddle this weekend, it’s been a hard week for them.
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Don’t be so naive. The object isn’t to pass the Bill. The object is to keep the issue alive and festering for future elections. ACT have won this round.
It will be forgotten quickly, thankfully.
Like the homosexual marriage bill and euthanasia bill, it will quietly gestate in the public’s mind.
Keep trying red neck Andrew. It will be forgotten tomorrow.
8%- 10% costing us millions when we don’t have a money tree (except for war tools) is a waste of money and time.
The Political Right might have “intellectual worth”, but the hobsons choice settlers whom Seymour represents don’t show a shred of intelligence. Their ignorance and determination, as seen on social media, continues as before.
Meanwhile, and more importantly, the Political Right continues with its task of rolling back every advance made by Maori under the established Principles of the Treaty. This is as it should be and is a more true gauge of where NZ/Ao stands in regard to race relations and the nature of our society.
These Principles are always open to debate as to the way they should be implemented. We might accept that the Treaty implies a Partnership, but what that involves in a practical way, in legislation, in law, in the way in which our institutions operate is a matter for debate.
Each time you put rednecks in a title Im right, always replies. Keep up the good work Martyn. The treaty will last forever, rednecks die off.
No Martyn, with all due respect, I will not spare a thought for those cunts.
8%- 10% costing us millions when we don’t have a money tree (except for war tools) is a waste of money and time.
Yes, your right squeaky I’m right replies to red necks because he is one
I’m right has a jolly good point. ‘principles need to be removed from invading all of NZ laws and life in general.’
Now, of course if you are a money grubbing, ill bred, vicious little oick like all ACT supporters, the last thing you want are principles denying you the right to exploit people. The only principles you want are those that perpetuate an unjust system.
Also principles of free speech and peaceful dissent mean I must curb the desire I often feel to debate with Coalition supporters using a pick handle and try using reason and logic instead.
I believe I have a solution. Ratify the Treaty and make it part of the law of Aotearoa.
Until the Treaty is ratified and made part of New Zealand Law there will always be conflict over whether the principles apply.
In ratifying the Treaty the sensible thing would be to use the Maori language Treaty.
The principles of the treaty could be woven into law along such as the use of Te Reo. There is an existing guide to this from the Governorship of Fitzroy who appointed courts with both Pakeha judges and Maori experts in Tikanga.
This man earnestly tried to apply the Treaty as a legal agreement and as such infuriated the racist overlords of the New Zealand Company.
This is another good reason for ratifying the Treaty. It would send I’m right, Bob the First and Trevor totally Apeshit and, with a bit of luck, they would fuck off to distant parts.
There sorted.
Cheers
Razorbotham
“The fight for equal rights continues.” As Israeli pilots say when they kill more Palestinian toddlers to give Gaby an orgasm( ’cause those toddlers are Hamas y’know).
I do not think you should talk about ‘intelligent people’ Gaby. They might find out that you think you are one of them and do something about it.
The treaty is our founding document and this bill was voted down for good reason. Racist parties and groups should not be seen or heard. They are not a differing view.
It looks like this article has drawn out more red necks and they appear to have their knickers in a knot because they didn’t get their way. Gaby for starters saying right wingers are intelligent people with common sense and fair-minded is she implying left wing people aren’t. Look everyone had an opportunity to submit, now why people didn’t was there choice as they could have remained anonymous. I listened to some of the oral submission against the bill and in my view their arguments were flawed, lacked good sound evidence and displayed ignorance, racial bias, fear, lack of knowledge of the Treaty and NZ history and lastly, they expressed antiquated colonial views.
For Seemore to talk about equal rights is ludicrous he is pandering to his voter base. And of course, he has to say he will carry on as he wants his voters to keep on voting for him.
I spared them a brief thought, Martyn, but I’m not going to cuddle them.
They’ve ruined the last 18 months, so I don’t owe them anything.
I’m not as forgiving as you.
Seemore has blown all of his political capital.
As it turned out it was a kind of stock taking. When the country took stock of where it’s at they found a forty year pragmatic partnership approach to redress and investment in maori renaissance has been all good for the country and thats understood by the level headed. What was the alternative indigenous insurgency and terrorism?
Brash and the farming families that received the confiscated lands are slowly passing.
It’s normal now to have Maori judges lawyers MPs academics, Maori all over arts, tv, pro-sports. It’s an amazing change from the racism of fifty years ago.
That racism was all about not honouring a treaty contract and it was shameful.
Could someone please enlighten me as to what priveledges Maori have that pakeha dont have ?I mean from some of the reading I have done and looking around with my wide awake eyes I can see no evidence of any .My cousins wife who was schooled in Auckland in the 60s made the point that her posh school went out of their way to allow 12 Maori girls to attend every year and how that was a massive thing for them to do .To allow 12 brown girls to attend a public school is not some thing to crow about but a bloody disgrace where did all the other brown girls go to school?
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