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.
Well that sounds like some quality racism over there.
God people are stupid and one sided on this
They were suspended for disrupting the democratic vote process.
It’s not about the haka. Its about a time and a place for democratic voting policy. Democracy is paramount it’s not about any one person, people or groups of people trying to intimate the vote. That happens outside. No one is complaining about doing the haka for or against anything at any other time.
But when it cones to voting you got to behave.
Thats the wording of the report. But Lemmy is already on their wokey high horse. Minorities can do no wrong.
The fact of the matter is intimidating voting process is not okay. You are stopping democracy. If a white people acted that way there would be no outcry. The outcry is only about people not being given special treatment for being Maori, if I white person done it the result would have been fine and everyone here would say it’s justified. It sounds like everyone here is racist but NZ actually made a decision not based on race.
Except they didn’t interrupt voting. Go and watch the video, Maipi-Clarke clearly gives TPMs vote before the haka started. The fact that the report claims they interrupted voting clearly shows how bullshit the process was.
I think it’s you who are on your high horse. Claiming there needs to be some kind of “decorum” over a bill designed to strip rights from Maori is utter bullshit and frankly racist.
Did you miss the part about how disproportional the punishment was compared to any other given in the past?
Yeah. This is the contentious part. Before Thursday, the longest suspension was for three days.
Perhaps consider watching the recording or reading what actually happened before typing a massive rant claiming others are wrong?
If a white people… Dog-the article is literally that this is a greater than normal punishment.
there’s a difference between being technically right and doing the right thing
Are you aware they went into this knowing the consequences? This is why we even know what happened, because it was a protest with real world consequences.
This is what makes what they did so powerful.
Any other “race” would face similar consequences.
Racism isn’t dictating every decision. So tired of that take.
Yeah, knowing how the bigots will react makes them jot bigots.
Like how sundown towns arent racist.
I don’t see why people dont understand this.
Do you realize that half the rules and traditions of parliament are based on Christianity and western colonial culture? How come they’re not all being punished for following their cultural traditions? Why are only the indigenous cultural traditions “disruptive”? Why aren’t you allowed to be disruptive when you’ve been colonized, your people murdered and raped, your race subjugated and your traditions silenced? Sounds like you’re on the side of the status quo, even if the status quo is a bunch of colonial racists
Im indigenous from Central America, you’re a fool if you don’t realize that every interaction the governments have with indigenous communities are painted with a racist brush. All deal begin from a position where the indigenous are looked down on as the lesser. Every time.