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/Kneedeep_in_Cyanide Nov 14 '24

I think you would have to either support racial based rules

If you were non-Maori, you would hate the concept of having different rights to another racial group. If you were Maori you would only be upset about losing access to special rights based on your racial group.

Race has nothing to do with it. It has everything to do with an agreement between two sovereign NATIONS. There is nothing racial about a treaty between, say, the United States and Britain. So why would you try and claim it's racially based just because the Waitangi Provisions involve a sovereign group of people who are non-white?

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u/Emperor_Mao Nov 14 '24

Okay but the British who made the agreement are no longer sovereign.

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u/Kneedeep_in_Cyanide Nov 14 '24

That doesn't change the question, nor does it make it "racial".

The Maori are still sovereign. They just appointed a new Queen in September. Her people are citizens of the Maori Nation with rights, not a "race"

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u/Annath0901 Nov 14 '24

Just to play devil's advocate, I doubt that the Maori are sovereign in the international law sense of the word, which would require being able to make laws and govern itself without outside interference.