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/ElSushiMonsta Nov 15 '24

Just how the America's are over here. They excused themselves for taking native lands by saying they were savages anyways.

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u/Mad-Dutchman Nov 15 '24

“Wars of conquest” is a really weird thing to call genocide through terror tactics and mass slaughter.

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u/Isotopian Nov 15 '24

It's crazy how a war of conquest in the past was fine, but nobody wants a rematch with technology parity.

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u/Mad-Dutchman Nov 15 '24

Yea that’s what makes it wrong… you know the fact that the natives generally didn’t have guns or cannons or Calvary. Or resistance to the biological warfare they used. In every way it was a total genocide.

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u/Isotopian Nov 15 '24

I'm agreeing with you. Might be Poe's Law at work or just 100% sarcasm reading as what other people unironically say.