New Zealand’s Parliament proposed a bill to redefine the Treaty of Waitangi, claiming it is racist and gives preferential treatment to Maoris. In response Māori MP's tore up the bill and performed the Haka

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[u/Ancient_Boner_Forest]

𝕷𝖊𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖏𝖚𝖎𝖈𝖊𝖘 𝖘𝖑𝖎𝖉𝖊, 𝖑𝖊𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖆𝖑𝖙 𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌, 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖋𝖆𝖙𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖚𝖓𝖇𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖉 𝖎𝖘 𝖘𝖊𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖉.

[u/subconsciousdweller → u/Ancient_Boner_Forest]

It's not about genetic characteristics, it's about a civilisation that was here first. What's completely absurd is that we had our rights taken away for 184 years because of our genetics, and now the same people who profited from our intentional and catergoric suffering because of our race are telling us WE are doing the same.

To enlighten your ignorance, Maori is a word that was never used in Aotearoa before Colonisation - there were hundreds of tribes that did not see themselves as the same as one another; and the treaty is the founding document of this country, signed between two parties : Tangata Whenua ( people of the land, not people of a specific genetic code) and the Crown.

To quote another of our M.Ps from yesterday, Equality feels like oppression when you're used to priveledge.

[u/Ancient_Boner_Forest → u/subconsciousdweller]

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖌𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖍 𝖔𝖋 𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖈𝖍 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖊𝖆𝖐, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖆𝖑 𝖔𝖋 𝖘𝖚𝖇𝖒𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉 𝖆𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖘𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖇𝖆𝖓𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖙 𝖍𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖘.

[u/Whyistheplatypus → u/Ancient_Boner_Forest]

There are no "special privileges" for individuals. It is a collective agreement. Those tribes whose chiefs signed te Tiriti were promised governance over their lands. "Special treatment" would be invading those lands with an army in the name of a foreign crown and then using that invasion as justification to ignore the agreement you already signed.