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The New Zealand Parliament has voted to impose record suspensions on three lawmakers who did a Maori haka as a protest. The incident took place last November during a debate on a law on Indigenous rights.

New Zealand's parliament on Thursday agreed to lengthy suspensions for three lawmakers who disrupted the reading of a controversial bill last year by performing a haka, a traditional Maori dance.

Two parliamentarians — Te Pati Maori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi — were suspended for 21 days and one — Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, from the same party — for seven days.

Before now, the longest suspension of a parliamentarian in New Zealand was three days.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 hours ago

Settler colonial government doing what settler colonial governments do.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 14 hours ago

'If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.'

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Shame. Wtf is wrong with your shitty shitty politics New Zealand?!!?! (Not an American, so I can call out anti-Indigenous politics)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Not an American, so I can call out anti-Indigenous politics

Any decent human being can and should call out anti-Indigenous politics, no matter their nationality.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Yes, but I just don’t see anything resembling reconciliation happening in the US vis-a-vis Indigenous peoples there. Like, in the US there doesn’t appear to be any reconciliation, not even symbolic gestures like land acknowledgements at events, or meaningful involvement of Indigenous people in settler politics. Are any elected officials in the US also Indigenous, like - at all?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

How is that relevant to who can and can't discuss Indigenous rights though? Surely the more people in the world who care about Indigenous rights, the better.

To answer your question the US has about 5 out of 435 members, Canada has about 12 out of 343 members. New Zealand has about 33 out of 123 members which is obviously a much larger proportion of their total.

I will never understand why so many Canadians and Americans seem so unaware of one anothers' Indigenous rights movements. You are neighbouring countries and some of your Indigenous nations are cross-border.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Your logic doesn't make sense to me, you're saying people in the US cannot spot and criticize injustices happening in other places because those same injustices are happening in their home country? What about the people who do criticize them locally? Or the natives who are affected by them locally?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Where are you from bud?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

It is still a British colony. They need to ditch the British king Charles as fast as possible.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

What!? But that haka was awesome! How can you not enjoy that?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 hours ago

There are many enjoyable things that are not appropriate to do in parliament.

While I personally don't see how performing haka is constructive to include in a debate about the bill, I think it's unrelated to the discussion about what is or is not appropriate in the debating chamber.

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