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Previously: New Zealand: Based Tribespeople Interrupt Parliament to Perform Lion King Style Tribal Dance

Can’t they just pass out liquor to shut these people up?

Of course they could. But it’s white women who go out there and stir them to anger. They wouldn’t even know what laws were if it wasn’t for women going around and whipping them into a frenzy.

Deutsche Welle:

Tens of thousands of people in New Zealand gathered in front of Parliament in Wellington on Tuesday, to show dissent against a bill they said would dilute Indigenous people’s rights.

Chants supporting the Indigenous Maori rang out across New Zealand’s capital as at least 42,000 people demonstrated in what is one of the country’s largest-ever protests to oppose a bill.

A nine-day community march — known as hikoi — began in northern New Zealand ahead of Tuesday’s rally. People have journeyed to Wellington on foot and in cars to participate in the demonstration.

Over 203,650 people signed a petition opposing the bill, which was presented to the Parliament. Even the city’s mayor joined the protest.

“It’s different to when I was a child,” participant Shanell Bob said. “We’re stronger now, our tamariki are stronger now, they know who they are, they’re proud of who they are,” she said, using the Maori word for children.

Maori people make up 20% of New Zealand’s 5.3 million population but have higher rates of deprivation, incarceration and poor health care outcomes when compared to the rest.

The Treaty Principles Bill was introduced at the Parliament earlier this month by legislators looking to reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty signed between the British and the Indigenous Maori tribe.

The bill is championed by the libertarian ACT New Zealand party, a junior partner in the ruling center-right coalition government. The ACT believes the treaty, in its current interpretation, discriminates against non-Indigenous citizens.

The treaty, which lays down how the British and Maori chiefs agreed to govern, still guides policy today.

Though the bill does not have sufficient support in the Parliament to become legislation, protesting citizens say it is necessary for them to raise their voices against the sentiment.

Shouldn’t these people be thanking whites for not wiping them out?

I don’t understand.

On what grounds are they making demands? What leverage do they have?

David Seymour, the head of the party promoting this law, is actually part Maori himself

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New Zealand: Based Tribespeople Interrupt Parliament to Perform Lion King Style Tribal Dance https://www.anglinarchive.com/2024/11/16/new-zealand-based-tribespeople-interrupt-parliament-to-perform-lion-king-style-tribal-dance/ Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

New Zealand’s Parliament was temporarily suspended after Māori lawmakers performed a haka, a traditional dance, demonstrating their community’s anger and fear over a bill that aims to reinterpret the country’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people. https://t.co/nu55lS7Y8M pic.twitter.com/xLNIkMQagk

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 15, 2024

This is awesome.

It looks like “The Lion King” the musical (which I lowkey love, tbh).

I wish the drunk Indian scum in America would burst into song and dance in the US Congress.

ABC News (Australia):

Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka on Thursday to protest a proposed law that critics say would erode the land and cultural rights of Indigenous New Zealanders.

When asked how her party’s representatives would vote during the session, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of New Zealand’s Māori party stood up and began a soaring Haka, a ceremonial Māori dance that demonstrates pride, strength and unity through a series of intricate movements and facial expressions. She ripped a copy of the bill in half as she did the Haka.

About half of the lawmakers present, including members of the Labour and Green parties, joined in, along with members of the public seated in the gallery, their chants echoing through the chamber.

In a shocking “people who look like their dogs” style twist, the Speaker of the House looks a lot like Pumbaa.

Gerry Brownlee, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, appeared to roll his eyes as the Haka began. Unable to regain control of the room, he later suspended the House and ordered the gallery to be cleared.

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The Treaty Principles Bill proposes reinterpreting the Treaty of Waitangi, an 1840 agreement guaranteeing the Māori certain land and cultural rights in exchange for allowing the British to govern.

I don’t even think this is a real tribal dance. These savages no doubt forgot all that shit already and only brought it back as a tool against whites.

Like when Sitting Bull joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. After they got alcohol, Indians didn’t give a shit about their “culture” unless it made them money.

I think these Maori just copied The Lion King the musical and said it was their tradition.

It’s what I would have done.


Is there a single person on earth who doesn’t like that noisy bitch better than Jacinda Arden?

All of these Western parliaments are a joke and deserve to be treated exactly like this.

I wish I could burst into the US Congress and start doing shit from The Lion King the Musical. I could claim it was a sacred dance of the ancient Irish.

They’d just Ashli Babbit my ass, but it would be the best way to go out.

Think of it:

I’m not going to do it. I don’t want to hear about “Anglin threatens the US Congress with Lion King dance.”

I’m just saying it would be funny.

When you get to be middle aged, you start thinking only about death, and what the funniest death would be.

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New Zealand: Hospitals Introduce Race-Based Ranking System to Prioritize Non-Whites https://www.anglinarchive.com/2023/06/20/new-zealand-hospitals-introduce-race-based-ranking-system-to-prioritize-non-whites/ Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

One of the best ways whites can give back to marginalized communities is by dying.

Stuff:

Auckland’s surgeons are using a new method to prioritise patients – and health experts say it is improving surgical wait list inequities.

Alongside other factors, the tool uses an algorithm to rank patients on the basis of ethnicity, geographical location and clinical priority.

The equity adjuster tool introduced in February this year is live across all surgical services at Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland, including at Starship Children’s Hospital and some other northern region areas.

Te Whatu Ora interim lead for Te Toka Tumai Auckland Dr Mike Shepherd said one contribution to reducing inequity was the application of targeted equity adjusters.

“People waiting on wait lists for treatment were prioritised by a combination of clinical urgency and the length of time on the waiting list. However, we know that using this method alone disadvantages people who have a longer pathway to get on to a waiting list in our current system.

“These adjustments are based on evidence which shows these groups often have inequitable health outcomes which often begin at the start of their healthcare journey. Clinical teams work in close collaboration to implement the adjuster, with clinicians making the ultimate decision about the wait list.”


Mataroria Lyndon, medical education senior lecturer

Auckland University medical education senior lecturer Dr Mataroria Lyndon said Māori life expectancy was up to seven years less compared to non-Māori, and contributing to that was lower access to speciality health services for Māori.

The prioritising approach aimed to consider those health inequities, but also other factors like geographic location that made access harder.

But with ethnicity being the issue hotly debated, “I think the New Zealand public need to understand the rationale that can get lost”.

“It’s about fairness….It’s not a level playing field currently in the health system.”


Rawiri McKree Jansen

Te Aka Whai Ora chief medical officer Dr Rawiri Jansen said if the nation was clear about addressing inequities in the system, “then we have to be pro-equity about how we get a bunch of programmes done”.

Māori were “more likely to be long waiters than proportionally ought to be” – one to two years – so the targetted equity adjusters were a way of addressing that.

The “system historically had a way of blaming the patient” for not accessing care earlier, when in fact they were generally the “last ones off the rank”.

But the new approach in Tāmaki had directly addressed long wait lists, while being pro-equity.

“In my view, that’s a success story.”

New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists’ president Dr Morgan Edwards said many Māori patients were likely to have experienced health inequalities before even reaching surgical wait list.

“This is an attempt to try and achieve more equity, rather than give any advantages.

“At a basic fundamental level, when a Māori patient hits that surgical wait list they’re already far behind their non-Māori counterparts. This is a small step to address that inequity.”

The tool provides an Equity Adjuster Score, aiming to bring down inequities in the system to prioritise patients according to five areas – clinical priority, time spent on the wait list, geographic location (isolated areas), ethnicity and deprivation level.

The ranking system has received backlash from many people who say it gives priority to Māori and Pacific Island patients, while European New Zealanders and other ethnicities, like Indian and Chinese, are lower-ranked.

ACT Leader David Seymour said using ethnicity to prioritise healthcare wait lists was lazy and divisive, and “it’s not who we are as a country.”

“People who have less need are leapfrogging those who have more need. That’s completely wrong, and it’s got to stop.”

“A person who is in great clinical need, has waited a long time, lives far from major medical facilities, and is poor could be Māori, European, Pacific, Indian or Chinese, and they should all be treated equally.”

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In 2019, the Waitangi Tribunal, backed by evidence and consensus from witnesses, raised concerns and determined that institutional racism and individual racism exists in the health system.

New Zealand is leading the charge in stripping whites of their belongings and of their lives, and giving these things over to the people that really deserve them: primitive savages.

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Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings Features Black and Maori Hobbits, Empowered Females https://www.anglinarchive.com/2021/10/14/amazons-lord-of-the-rings-features-black-and-maori-hobbits-empowered-females/ Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Get your screaming Soyjak faces ready, kids.

This is going to be EPIC.

NME:

The Lord Of The Rings star Lenny Henry has revealed the forthcoming Amazon TV series will be more diverse than the Peter Jackson movies.

The award-winning actor is set to play a hobbit, who is part of an indigenous tribe, in the show.

The forthcoming series is based on JRR Tolkien’s book The Silmarillion.

“What’s notable about this run of the books, it’s a prequel to the age that we’ve seen in the films and books,” he told BBC Radio 4.

“It’s about the early days of the Shire and of Tolkien’s environment, so we’re an indigenous population of Harfoots, we’re hobbits but we’re called Harfoots. We’re multi-cultural, we’re a tribe not a race, so there are Black, Asian and brown, even Maori types within it.

Lenny Henry

The actor, who confirmed that he was joining the series in 2020, also said there is stronger female representation as well, with Morfydd Clark one of the leading stars previously confirmed for the show.

“There’s a very strong female presence in this, there are going to be female heroes in this evocation of the story, and there are going to be little people as usual,” he added.

Basically, the problem is, Lord of the Rings, a saga created by an evil white man, is just as racist as something like the Jungle Book.

We have to ask why it is that we keep recreating these white supremacist stories instead of just using stories written by people of color.

What about all that colored people’s literature?

Like, uh… Maya Angelou or whatever the crap. Some kind of colored people stuff.

Why doesn’t Amazon want to film that?

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New Zealand: Maori Party Says Lifting Lockdown Before Everyone’s Vaxed Would Holocaust Their People https://www.anglinarchive.com/2021/10/11/new-zealand-maori-party-says-lifting-lockdown-before-everyones-vaxed-would-holocaust-their-people/ Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t think that’s likely to happen.

There might be a modern genocide if they all decide to get the deadly vax, however.

The Guardian:

New Zealand’s government would be committing “modern genocide” by reopening the country as Covid spreads among under-vaccinated indigenous people, the Māori party has said.

The comments come as the country is struggling to contain its current Delta outbreak, with 95 cases reported over the weekend, and another 35 on Monday. Most current cases and hospitalisations are among Māori and Pacific New Zealanders, despite the fact those groups make up less than 30% of the total population. New Zealand is also in the process of pivoting away from its longstanding elimination strategy.

“Māori are now presenting over half of daily cases. We need to be placed back into a level that will break the circuit of this outbreak for Māori,” co-leader of the Māori party Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said on Monday.

“If the government is prepared to open the borders as soon as our country is 90% vaccinated, they are willingly holding Māori up to be the sacrificial lambs. It is a modern form genocide.”

Modelling by research centre Te Pūnaha Matatini found Māori were 2.5 times more likely to be hospitalised with Covid-19 than non-Māori, after controlling for age and pre-existing conditions. Pacific people were three times more likely to end up in hospital with Covid.

On top of that, Māori are more likely to have pre-existing conditions, like diabetes and asthma, that put them at greater risk if they contract Covid-19. The government has also come under fire for failing to adequately engage Māori leaders and health providers in the vaccine rollout.

All of this is silly.

If the Maori people are scared of the flu, then they should be the ones doing the lockdown out of their own free will while everyone else does whatever.

Furthermore, if they’re concerned about their lives, they should start losing fat and avoiding dairy or whatever else triggers their asthma.

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New Zealand: Maori Savages Want to Rename Whole Country in Their Own Language https://www.anglinarchive.com/2021/09/18/new-zealand-maori-savages-want-to-rename-whole-country-in-their-own-language/ Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

For a supposedly warrior culture, these Maori sure do whine a lot.

Maybe they are warriors of the art of complaining. Or some other perhaps more witty criticism.

The Guardian:

The Māori party has launched a petition to change New Zealand’s official name to Aotearoa, the te reo Māori, indigenous language name for the country.

“It’s well past time that Te Reo Māori was restored to its rightful place as the first and official language of this country,” Te Pāti Māori leaders, Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said in a statement launching the petition. “We are a Polynesian country – we are Aotearoa.”

“Aotearoa is a name that will unify our country rather than divide it,” Waititi said. “Others are trying to use it is a divisive tool, but this is an inclusive tool, where our ancestors consented to us all living on this whenua [land] together.”

“New Zealand is a Dutch name. Even the Dutch have changed their name – from Holland to the Netherlands, for Christ’s sakes!”

The petition also calls on the government to “identify and officially restore the original Te Reo Māori names for all towns, cities and places right across the country” over the next five years, completing the process by 2026.

“Tangata whenua are sick to death of our ancestral names being mangled, bastardised, and ignored. It’s the 21st century, this must change,” the petition reads.

Te Pāti Māori said successive governments and “the imposition of a colonial agenda in the education system” had resulted in widespread language loss among Māori, with fluency dropping from 90% to 20% over the past 90 years.

“It is the duty of the Crown to do all that it can to restore the status of our language. That means it needs to be accessible in the most obvious of places; on our televisions, on our radio stations, on road signs, maps and official advertising, and in our education system.” they said.

Over time, New Zealanders, including state officials, political leaders and companies have increasingly come to use Aotearoa interchangeably with or alongside New Zealand – but the shift hasn’t been made official.

Prime minister Jacinda Ardern said last year that an official name-change, was “not something we’ve explored,” but that she supported more people using the name. “I hear more and more often the use of Aotearoa interchangeably with New Zealand and that is a positive thing,” she said.

“Whether or not we change it in law I don’t think changes the fact New Zealanders do increasingly refer to Aotearoa, and I think that’s a transition that has been welcomed.”

That transition also hasn’t been without controversy. On the right, National party leader Judith Collins has called for a referendum on the use of Aotearoa for different reasons – saying the name was being implemented “by stealth,” and National MP Stuart Smith has floated the idea of banning its use by public officials. Libertarian ACT party leader David Seymour said via Twitter: “People are already free to use Māori placenames. What the Māori Party is saying is it would like to ban people calling our country New Zealand.”

The launch of the petition comes 49 years to the day after the Māori language petition was delivered to parliament – a drive which eventually led to Māori becoming an official language.

I think New Zealand would be much better off today if the whites there were as based as the Maoris used to be.

But they’d much rather be locked in their homes by a horse-faced cunt than do that…

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New Zealand Parliament Throws Maori Party Co-Leader Out for Doing the Haka https://www.anglinarchive.com/2021/05/12/new-zealand-parliament-throws-maori-party-co-leader-out-for-doing-the-haka/ Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

TPM and Teanau Tuiono leave the chamber after Rawiri Waititi cut off making point of order about the House’s litigation of race issues the past fortnight. pic.twitter.com/wZJ6tIsVRt

— Thomas Coughlan (@coughlthom) May 12, 2021

Ain’t y’all gonna let a fat nigga roll deep?

Y’all is be hatin’ on a nigga.

The Guardian:

Māori party co-leader Rawiri Waititi has been thrown out of New Zealand’s parliament after denouncing rhetoric from the opposition as racist and performing a haka.

Waititi said the opposition was inciting racism across New Zealand through its stance on Māori healthcare. The haka is a ceremonial dance for Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand – it can represent a challenge, and is sometimes performed in moments of conflict.

The altercation comes after weeks of escalating debate, in which the opposition National party has accused the government of a “separatist agenda” and creating “two systems by stealth”. Their arguments began after the government announced expanded, independent health services for Māori, who typically have far worse health outcomes than other ethnic groups.

“This has incited racism with venom towards Māori, because of this type of propaganda and rhetoric – we won’t stand for it any more,” Waititi said, speaking to reporters outside. “The opposition leader has been constantly bashing Māori to gain the votes of her Pākehā [non-Māori New Zealander] constituents. That’s all it is.”

Waititi was ejected from the House by speaker Trevor Mallard, after making a series of points of order. “Over the past two weeks there has been racist propaganda and rhetoric towards tangata whenua [indigenous people]. That not only is insulting to tangata whenua, but diminishes the mana [dignity] of this House,” Waititi said.

“When it comes to the rights and views of indigenous peoples – those views must be from those indigenous people,” he said, in a second point of order.

When asked to sit down by Mallard, he instead stepped into the centre of parliament to perform a haka, and was subsequently thrown out.

“There are various worlds here, and they are colliding,” Labour MP Aupito William Sio said, as members of parliament continued to debate. “Because the system here is not an indigenous system … there’s a duty of care in how we approach it – how it’s handled in this House has ripple effects for the wider community.” He said some of the discussion of race and policy in the House was “painful” for minority groups. “There’s a line that’s often crossed here”.

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In February, Waititi was ejected from the House for not wearing a tie. He said he had chosen to wear cultural dress in defiance of dress code: Waititi has dubbed ties a “colonial noose” and wore a pounamu, or greenstone, necklace in place of a necktie. House rules were subsequently revised to remove the necktie requirement.

Let’s be real: a tie is kinda like a noose, isn’t it?

How many people have died from ties getting caught in machinery and strangling them?

Probably thousands.

Also, I mean, if you’ve got tattoos all over your face, what is the tie really going to do to clean you up?

I’m going to start challenging people with the haka.

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New Zealand: Mondo-Mega CUNT Gives Top Job to Fat Face Tattooed Lesbian Field Savage https://www.anglinarchive.com/2020/11/02/new-zealand-mondo-mega-cunt-gives-top-job-to-fat-face-tattooed-lesbian-field-savage/ Mon, 02 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Isn’t it against socialism to give a job to a member of royalty?

I guess her racial status as a field savage overwrites her status as a member of an oppressive power dynamic?

RT:

Nanaia Mahuta, a close relative of the Maori royal family, has been named New Zealand’s next foreign minister amid a government reshuffle following parliamentary elections last month.

Mahuta, 50, was chosen to replace Winston Peters, who lost his seat in parliament after the October 17 election.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern praised Mahuta, the first woman to head the nation’s foreign affairs ministry, as “someone who builds fantastic relationships very, very quickly.” The PM added that Mahuta’s experience with the government “demonstrates those diplomacy skills that we need to represent New Zealand on the world stage.”

Mahuta said she will continue pursuing “a progressive trade agenda,” among other priorities. “What we know more than ever before in the Covid context is that, as a small country, we need to develop our relationships and remain committed to a multilateral, rules-based trade system that works for New Zealand,” she told reporters.

According to local media, Mahuta is the niece of the late Maori Queen, Te Arikinui Te Atairangi Kaahu, and a close relative of the current Maori monarch, Kingi Tuheitia. Having been first elected to parliament nearly two decades ago, she was appointed as Maori development minister and minister for local government in 2017.

It actually makes it especially crazy that she’s heading the foreign affairs. That’s much weirder than if she was involved in like, waste management or something. In theory, this woman is going to be sent out to speak with foreign dignitaries.

Imagine, you go to do diplomacy with a country, and get off the plane and see this:

However, in reality, New Zealand is committed to this “island fortress” coronavirus strategy, which will mean that no one is ever allowed in the country.

So actually, “foreign affairs ministry” is now a completely obsolete position, because this island fortress corona policy means “no one gets in.”

Full Disclosure

I’ve actually met a few Maori males in my time, and they weren’t bad guys. They actually seemed smart and relatively self-aware for brown people. I’ve met two and they were both impressive (for brown people).

However, there is control on that: I met them outside of New Zealand, and ones that travel must be in the highest bracket of intelligence for the race.

The ones I met also might have been pretty significantly Westernized. They didn’t have face tattoos. But they did have tattoos all the way down their arms and torsos.

This type of thing (except without the Jewish stars and steroids):

But as far as I’m aware, some kind of face tattoos are considered standard, and if those are skipped, the Maori is Westernized.

Imagine a white guy getting those tattoos.

You don’t have to imagine it:

Now understand: all tattoos look like that on white people. Tattoos are not a white thing to do. This is something from the history of brown people.

I’m sure a lot of you already have tattoos. I do. And it’s not a big deal. But I will say: if you don’t have any tattoos, I advise you to skip it.

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City in New Zealand Removes Statue of the Man It’s Named After https://www.anglinarchive.com/2020/06/15/new-zealandite-city-removes-statue-of-the-man-its-named-after/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t know why New Zealand named a city after a neo-Nazi in the first place. It was bound to cause trouble.

Japan Today:

The New Zealand city of Hamilton on Friday removed a bronze statue of the British naval officer for whom it is named — a man who is accused of killing indigenous Maori people in the 1860s.

The removal by city authorities came a day after a Maori tribe asked for the statue be taken down and one Maori elder threatened to tear it down himself.

Cities around the world are taking steps to remove statues that represent cultural or racial oppression as support grows for the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd by police last month in Minneapolis.

Weird… if I threaten to tear stuff down, they’re gonna arrest me.

But all these supposedly oppressed brown folk never seem to have that kind of problem.

Mayor Paula Southgate said a growing number of people found the statue personally and culturally offensive.

“We can’t ignore what is happening all over the world and nor should we,” Southgate said in a statement. “At a time when we are trying to build tolerance and understanding between cultures and in the community, I don’t think the statue helps us to bridge those gaps.”

Yes, of course it was a woman who did it.

What else were you expecting it to be?

Not a woman?

The city was originally called Kirikiriroa by Maori. In the 1860s, it was renamed after Captain John Hamilton, a British officer who was killed in the infamous Gate Pa battle in the city of Tauranga.

The statue was gifted to the city in 2013. The Waikato-Tainui tribe, or iwi, formally requested on Thursday for it to be removed.

City authorities said it was clear the statue was going to be vandalized, after Maori elder Taitimu Maipi this week told news organization Stuff that he planned to tear it down himself. He said Hamilton was being represented as a hero when he was “murderous” and a “monster.”

Imagine being one of the most mindlessly violent two-legged forms of life on this planet, which literally did nothing in their entire history except kill each other, eating each other, enslaving each other, and doing some really goofy dance, and calling some Britcuck a “murderous monster.”

City authorities said they have no plans to change the city’s name at this point. Hamilton is the nation’s fourth-largest city with 160,000 people, about one-quarter of whom are Maori.

Council Chief Executive Richard Briggs said they were concerned that if the statue was torn out by force, it could damage the underground parking structure below.

I didn’t even know New Zealand had 4 cities.

But apparently, they do.

And apparently, they’re cucking hard in all of them.

But really, what were you expecting them to do?

Their national symbol is a fat bird that can’t fly and gets eaten by literally anything that wants to eat it.

That’s almost as gay as having a leaf on your flag.

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New Zealand: Stone Age Cannibals Call White Explorer “Barbarian” https://www.anglinarchive.com/2019/09/18/new-zealand-stone-age-cannibals-call-white-explorer-barbarian/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Spartacus
Daily Stormer
September 18, 2019

Why haven’t these creatures been exterminated by now?

Breitbart:

An Australian replica of the former merchant collier is part of a flotilla circumnavigating New Zealand next month for a series of events that “acknowledges the first onshore encounters between Māori and Pākehā in 1769-70”.

It was due to visit Mangonui, in the North Island, but the stopover was cancelled by the NZ Ministry of Culture and Heritage after complaints from local indigenous figures.

Why does the wildlife have a say in this?

Anahera Herbert-Graves, the head of Northland’s Ngāti Kahu iwi, or tribe, told Radio New Zealand (RNZ): “He [Cook] was a barbarian. Wherever he went, like most people of the time of imperial expansion, there were murders, there were abductions, there were rapes, and just a lot of bad outcomes for the indigenous people.

“He didn’t discover anything down here, and we object to Tuia 250 using euphemisms like ‘encounters’ and ‘meetings’ to disguise what were actually invasions.”

That sounds kinda like all you creatures did for your entire existence, minus the cannibalism and the head trading.

Tensions have been rising for more than a year before the planned celebrations. In Gisborne, the council decided to remove a statue of Cook after it was repeatedly vandalised, rejecting any suggestion a commemoration of the British explorer’s encounters with indigenous New Zealanders was worthy of merit.

Cook and the crew of the Endeavour landed in Gisborne’s Poverty Bay in 1769 and the first significant meetings of Europeans and Māori took place nearby. The name Poverty Bay has in itself caused controversy – its original name was Tūranganui-a-Kiwa before being renamed by Cook.

In March, the Cook Islands in the South Pacific began considering a name change to reflect its Polynesian heritage, with Avaiki Nui an early frontrunner. The name “must have a taste of our Christian faith, and a big say on our Māori heritage. And it must instil a sense of pride in our people, and unite our people,” Danny Mataroa, chair of the name change committee, told RNZ Pacific.

A referendum was previously held in 1994, when Cook Islands voters opted against a name change.

James Cook contributed more to civilization than all of the Maori creatures who ever lived put together.

And here these savages, instead of being grateful they weren’t completely exterminated like they should’ve been, are attacking him, more as a proxy for attacking White people (I doubt most of them actually know much about him).

There is no shame in engaging in the banal competition for resources that all forms of life must engage in in order to survive, and no sane people do this, hence why there are no Maori who feel guilty about what their kind did to the Moriori.

The only thing we should be ashamed of is that there’s any of them left…

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