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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] 4 points 1 day ago

I don't know anything about New Zealand, or Maori culture, or history, or parliamentary procedure, or the Treaty Principles Bill, or the hearings that led to this decision, or the Haka, or sociology, or anthropology, or race relations, or indigenous issues, but I think...

why don't they just have everyone do their hakas at the start, like in the rugby?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know one person from New Zealand and she's racist as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Cool. Thanks for the contribution to the discussion!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

As someone who is half-Maori this just embarrasses me. I don't have a problem with people celebrating their heritage and culture just do it in a more appropriate time and place. I wouldn't have a problem with Irish people celebrating the Saint Patrick's Day just as long as they don't do it during a meeting at parliament.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Where i want congress to pick up the old tradition of thowimg raw chicken at each other

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unpopular opinion but interruption is interruption no matter the form. I do agree with the native protest here but I wouldn't read into this ruling too much as any governing body would take this position. Weak governing rule set creates these loopholes like the American filibuster which imo is a bug not a feature.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago

Settler colonial government doing what settler colonial governments do.

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