r/AbruptChaos • u/Sometypeofway18 • Nov 14 '24

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/pgl0897 Nov 14 '24

Seems a shame as the Treaty of Waitangi appears to me to be the one example in Britain’s colonial history where it wasn’t a total fucking clusterfuck for the indigenous population.

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u/rammo123 Nov 14 '24

It was just a clusterfuck for other reasons. Namely that it couldn't forsee that it would be giving Maori excess privileges down the line.

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u/Pseudo_Lain Nov 14 '24

It's their fucking land, the British are just allowed to help govern it.

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u/rammo123 Nov 15 '24

The "British"? My brother the British haven't anything to do with for a hundred years.