I think that was amazingly awesome. The people saying there’s a time and place, you’re correct. This was the time and place. Take a stand, make noise, make people uncomfortable. Quiet compliance is what got us here in the first place.
Wait if I’m reading this right this punishment comes from something that happened 5 months ago and it will result in them not being allowed to participate in the budget debate? Will that’s fucking Twisted isn’t it? If it was really a punishment for an action why would it not happen sooner? Why would they wait until this critical budget debate to implement it? Seems like maybe it’s just an excuse to stop these people from participating in the budget debate. Like an excuse to stop their constituents from being represented. This is blatantly anti-democratic.
It’s racism so that the colonialist power structure can continue its genocide without dissent from the people it is targeting
This call for more hakas… 💪
Hakas will continue until morale improves
Colonialism is alive and well in NZ.
It was clear the collective western governance doesn’t give a shit about indigenous people when they facilitated, funded, supplied arms, and downplayed the palestinian genocide. Their “human rights” only extends to marketing themselves as moral civilized people, while making themselves rich and powerful comes first.
Honourable cause, not good praxis interjecting it into random topics making people more fed up hearing about it than they’re fed up hearing about vegans.
White folks stepping on brown folks isnt really a different topic, but I dont really disagree with you here either.
The three MPs will not receive their salaries during the suspension and will not be present during next week’s annual budget debate.
There we have it. They’re making sure that Maori people won’t have representation when taking away their rights is debated again.
This sort of thing always strikes me as odd.
There are agreed rules on language, some parliaments have dress code but besides penalties or fines a representative can be served with under no situation a representative can be barred from exercisizing their dutifully elected functions.
I have representatives in my national assembly with criminal charges that none the less exercise as they have been elected.
This is plainly stupid and abusive.
I don’t know about the NZ parliament, but in the UK parliament upon which it is based it absolutely possible for members to be thrown out of the chamber. It’s not even that rare. Famously Dennis Skinner was kicked out for calling them Prime Minister David Cameron “Dodgy Dave” and refusing to retract it.
Are you quoting some rule or just your own expectation?
I’m in Portugal. I’ve seen direct insults exchanged between representatives, a clear violation of manners and language, and the representative was not removed from the chamber. Their word was removed, a sanction issued, but that was it. We have representatives with active criminal charges in place that were not removed.
Save this example for the next time some chud tries to tell you colonization is a past event and not an ongoing process right this minute
This was five months ago. The MPs haka sparked national protest and a nine day march against the Treaty Principles Bill, which did not pass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_Principles_Bill
Sounds like it worked, and now the conservatives are mad and trying to punish?
Pretty much. That and trying to distract people from the details of their budget, which will without doubt be all the usual crap you’d expect from conservatives.
The bill was never going to pass, the other two parties in the coalition had made it very clear they would support the bill to its first reading and no further, and only agreed to support it that far because they couldn’t have formed a government otherwise.
This didn’t really change anything.
So if it was never going to pass, what was the point of introducing it? Just a provocation?
Pretty amazing, the NZ conservatives mount a major attack on Māori and are then intimidated by haka. Snowflakes.
Its inappropriate for any member to rise, rip a bill in half and start to yell like an animal during a session. Its a modern civilized country with rules and laws, you must act like a normal person.
If you get to yell and scream and do whatever you want, what kind of a county are you creating.
You say this, but the people yelling and screaming are typically the ones that are pushing for progress, while the people that hide behind “decorum” are the ones trying to strip people of their rights and funnel money into capital.
Also, human beings are animals…
Shame on you for calling a deeply historic cultural dance “yelling like an animal”. Fucking colonizer mindset is still alive and well, it seems
what kind of country are you creating
one that doesn’t take away the rights of her people
if you want so bad to live in a “civilized” country where Indigenous people don’t bother you with their existence, go back to england you fucking colonizer
Colonialist rules to oppress the racialized victims of genocide
Get fucked, loser. Their culture, their land.
No. They lost. Unfortunately they do not get to decide.
I was an ignorant dickhead like you when I was younger too.
You need to realize that your feelings can both be valid and wrong.
Haka makes me feel very uncomfortable. But I understand that’s my own limited perspective. It would be incredibly self centered to let that feeling dictate my opinion.
may i invite you to fuck yourself?
Sti going to believe that when someone invades your home?
You’re a fucking loser, bud.
“Might makes right” - you
My man have you seen any parliament session in any democratic country at all? This is very normal for parliament session, it is often rowdy especially when debating a hot and controversial topic, and it IS part of the civilised world.
Idk a county where minorities can briefly express disagreement in their own idiom seems pretty nice to me.
This is disingenuous. Clearly there has to be a line somewhere. To throw out an absolute crazed example, at various points in Peru’s history, there were rites with child sacrifice. Should we allow Peruvians to “express disagreement in their own idiom”?
To me, this is like how in the USA we are purported to have “freedom of speech”, yet that doesn’t enable you to say “FIRE” in a crowded theater.
May I suggest that these ‘hakas’ could be performed in the manner of a protest, outside the doors of the active legislative session?
There are rules about what behavior is permissible and not permissible on their parliamentary floors. Each and every elected person in that room would have agreed to these rules. They violated them by staging this scene. I would hope and wish that any other person from any other culture that was loud and disruptive in the session would be cited by the same rules.
You are missing the context of Maori culture being alive and well in NZ, in NZ Parliament and that the haka was a response to the erosion of Maori rights… In NZ.
No one was harmed by the haka.
Before you go calling folks disingenuous, you may want to get more background information.
No one was harmed by the haka.
The vote was delayed. You also don’t know the reaction of other parliamentary members. The context of the haka is a dance done to intimidate enemies. Maybe some of the other members feel intimidated now.
If I was a parliament member and stood up with 3 of my pals and loudly threatened another member, what do you think would happen to me?
Wouldn’t want parliamentary process to be disrupted in any way by Maori’s expressing concern about laws that are going to affect them negatively.
/s
in the USA we are purported to have “freedom of speech”
Can you elaborate further on the cultural context of the haka, fellow American?
lol that’s a hell of a strawman
“you’re being disingenuous, what about child sacrifice”
Sometimes to illustrate a point, it is best taken to the extreme to see what a logical extension of this would look like. You’re supposed to go “LOL child sacrifice” because that IS the point. There is a line drawn somewhere.
I somewhat agree, but on the other hand its not the right place to do it.
If somebody would come and play bagpipes, or start yodel in a courtroom or parlament they would be asked to stop too. And i bet if in those cases they would not stop, they would get reprimands too. No matter how cultural it is.
You’re racist that’s her culture not yelling like an animal.
Way to be an ignorant dweeb dude definitely take that shit back maybe delete your comment.
Why would your idea of “normal” be more justified than that of others?
Yes, we mustn’t do that, instead we should filibuster for 16 hours.
Or, just perhaps, different cultures have different standards for how they protest in a debate.
Found the guy who’s never seen a Prime Minister’s Question Time.
Stfu
Have you seen the things average MPs get away with in NZ (and Australia) in parliament ?
That was pretty badass.
Ah, at more or less frequent time spans I end up searching the internet for all these amazing ritual performances (forgive my ignorance, I am from North Europe so don’t really know what it is exactly or what it should be called) of the Māori.
I get so captured and enchanted by them, it’s so powerful but often also beautiful and somehow extremely sorrowful or whatever emotion the display is intended to signal (or at least ends up signaling to me as a complete ignorant foreigner), I always end up wondering that had Christianity not crusaded our lands and bloodily murdered and genocided our cultures, might we have something equally powerful and captivating to preserve? It’s not a far fetch because we do have a lot of remnants and first party findings on the old Norwegian and Danish and Swedish cultures of around the Northern European Iron Age for example, that had similar sort of rituals or even just musical tastes and conventions. Our peoples neighbored those, though were distinct and entirely different on most fronts, though a lot of people today fancy conflating us with the “Vikings”. We were their looting ground for the most part and any influence from their culture on ours would’ve been likely equally bloodily brought. But I digress.
Had the southerners not crusaded and killed most of us off, snuffed out the light of our culture, forced everyone brutally to follow whatever flavor of Christ each crusade was bringing, maybe I shouldn’t feel so amazed by the amazing cultures far away. But maybe we didn’t have anything as powerful in the first place, who knows at this point…
But these shows of force and unity are always so captivating, I end up bingeing videos of them for hours on end, even if I don’t really know what they are about and what each of them mean.
I love this. It’s so close to my heart somehow, feels so close to home, yet it’s a faraway thing.
might we have something equally powerful and captivating to preserve?
…no. As in: That’s not the kind of cultural practice Christianisation wiped out or we wouldn’t be burning stuff come spring, dance around maypoles, and whatnot. The Faroese are still into singing sagas as an actual community practice. Missionaries back then weren’t trying to regiment people into factory workers, make them sit still on chairs and such.
It’s kind of a grass is greener on the other side kind of situation. There’s a good reason stuff like Heilung is captivating, but that’s because they’re modern-day shamans speaking to instincts buried by modernity, not because they’d be historical in their music or practices. Norse folk music indeed sounded pretty much like Norse folk music does today.
I get your sentiment, but I’m talking about Finnic heritage and culture, we have some stuff preserved, though a lot of it warped by Christian stuff bleeding into them, but no real knowledge of what the music around here was like. From the Scandinavians, we have even primary sources and good findings, but I am fairly certain what we had here was much different, just not preserved. A lot of the crusades were from the Scandinavians, former “Vikings”, which means we do have some amount of warped cultural traditions similar to theirs, but that is most likely a result and the outcome of hundred years of crusades, annexation, occupation and conquest. So in a sense it’s true Christianity alone didn’t result in our lost cultural traditions, it was the more powerful cousins we have from the West as well.
But I do not agree that it’s entirely just “grass is greener” kind of situation and that the influence and violence from the faiths and the peoples from the South and the West (and the East!) played no critical part in silencing whatever we used to have around here. If we take your proposal for example, that would mean that we were very alike to the Scandinavians, since those are mostly the “pagan” traditions that remain in some thinned out, distorted ways, here too. But everything, the entirely different language origins, the cultural merging more with the Siberian and Sami peoples on top of our own original foreigness among these Scandinavian neighbors, everything points to it being unlikely our customs were the same. Our religion was entirely different to those of our Western cousins. You would assume the customs, traditions, rites, the music and all, would’ve been entirely different as well, since most of them leaned into those two things: the language (as in the preservation of:) and the all-encompassing nature of faiths of that time as sort of the merged “science”, culture and religion.
But I was vague in my original comment, which probably lead to this tangent. While I’m not an academic in the histories of our culture, I have been interested in it and consuming all kinds of content regarding it (the little we have…) all my life. I feel like I am in line with the current consensus. But maybe not. Take it as you will.
Agreed. If that had been targeted at me, I would have crapped my pants.
And that’s why they were suspended so heavily, if you want to use physical intimidation to get your point across then the next step is that we bring our guns to the chamber to use physical intimidation ourselves
I assume all of a sudden the Māori would then have a problem with it
A ritual dance is physical intimidation? I suppose you’d say having aggressive body language (looking angry) is physical intimidation too.
We should put all government officials on valium so they don’t accidentally get too emotionally invested in what they’re discussing, lest they accidentally physically intimidate someone with an angry face.
Obviously ministers with resting-bitch-face will have to be permanently barred from attending parliament, for the safety of their colleagues. We wouldn’t want such blatant physical intimidation on the day to day after all.
The point being, if you think a native ritual dance is the same as being physically intimidated, rather than seeing it as their culture’s way of expressing their feelings on some important matters, then you’re entirely missing the point and showing a lack of understanding of your own nation’s culture at a basic level, and probably shouldn’t be representing those same citizens at the government level.
I imagine politicians that clueless would just say “Oh my, the natives have gone feral! Look at that display of raw physical intimidation! Jeeves, fetch my musket and don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes!”
If you feel physically intimidated by what is essentially some well known and well respected people in a debating hall being angry about the current topic of discussion and telling you they’re angry in a recognised and common cultural manner, then I can’t help you.
A ritual dance is physical intimidation?
Yes
I suppose you’d say having aggressive body language (looking angry) is physical intimidation too.
Yes (but just looking angry is not body language. It’s a facial expression. Screaming at someone with your arms flailing is aggressive body language)
Do you even know the history of the Haka? It’s a warrior’s dance to intimidate their foes. Modern haka can have many meanings, but that’s it’s root.
Did you see the video? The arm stuff looks like jazz hands.
Hey hey now, what’s with this intimidating post? Sounds like I may need my gun.
A dance is not equate to a gun, this is not some magical world where people cast spell by dancing 🤦
You’re missing the point there champ
Dance like these is as intimidating as getting booed, they should quit their leadership position if they feel physically threatened by it. It’s a dance, hon, not waving gun or sword around.
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Nah, we’re just not bigots like you.
You can fuck allll the way off.
And after you’re done fucking off, please go right ahead and keep fucking off until you reach the sun
Wait, if we could harness that level of fuck off power, we could transition to renewable energy much sooner.
So don’t delay, fuck now, supplies are fucking out
Fuck now, if you’re still alive, six to eight fucks to arrive
And if you fuck more, there may be a tomorrow
But if the offer’s fucked
You might as well be fuckin’ on the sun
So can you really!? Not helpful discourse at all.
I dunno, trying to educate shit people has gotten us nowhere either. Might as well just tell em to fuck off.
When the threats come from governaments you suddenly stop caring i bet
Fuck the King
So who can regale us on why the current coalition is running cover for colonialists in New Zealand. I thought that was usually a losing move there.
We got the project 2025 test run when a three party far right coalition got elected in 2023. Most regressive, cruel and mean sprited government in a generation.
USA, NZ, Australia, Canada, UK and beyond. They all coordinate, they use the same consultants, the same messages, their AstroTurf political advocacy groups all share info and coordinate policy to make our lives worse and the rich richer. Tailored slightly for local conditions but the same overall goal.
Parliaments have rules dictating behaviour for good reason. If they don’t then discussion break down into chaos. So should they be punished? Absolutely.
The severity of that punishment depends on the type of haka and what was intended by it. In all the coverage I’ve seen no translation of what was said. A haka can be anything from expressions of joy to a declaration of war.
If the point was to intimidate or worse, then throw the book at her. Just as someone using intimidating or violent language would be ruled against. Doing it in a way specific to a particular culture does not get you protection.
If it was just a display of Maori culture at a poignant moment, expressing grief at the decision, then more leniency can be shown. However I doubt that’s the case given the physical actions involved.
If I recall correctly it was in response to a bill that would nullify the treaty with the indigenous people. In my mind, trying to gut the agreement that you’ll work together and respect each other instead of trying to kill each other is an act of war, any response less than killing people is being respectful.
Nah you racist. This is her culture and he land and the cunts trying to pull bullshit will get Haka’d out of parliament
Fuck your decorum
Institutional violence is constant intimidation.
In case you’re actually curious https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka_Mate
She has done this before. She knows Hakas gets attention. So she is aware of want she is doing.
I agree with you.
She knows Hakas gets attention. So she is aware of want she is doing.
THATS THE PURPOSE
the fuck you mean she’s aware of what she was doing? Fucking commie morons
You misunderstood, you wank.
Begging for attention or doing something that is reasonable can be good. Getting attention by being disruptive and manipulative is the problem. Hence the fact they threw the book at her.
Knowing is one thing. Context and intent is another.
I am not a commie. You commie.
They did this right before Parliament was set to vote, and managed to disrupt and delay said vote.
So yes, it was pretty bad.
The video is less than two minutes long
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What is MP
Member of Parliament.
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Hell yeah! (Edit, about the haka, 😅😅😅 not the punishment)
This doesn’t seem like the appropriate response
Well it does if one is a racist arsehole.
Maybe, but…they’re a blahaj user. It seems far more likely to me that they just misunderstood the news or misinterpreted what’s going on.
Are you celebrating the punishment?
