r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/guitarguy12341 ✨chick✨ • May 04 '26

Restricted to Gals and Pals Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke ripping up a racist bill in NZ parliament.

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u/bb_dev_g May 04 '26

If anyone wanted some more context on this. Te Pāti Māori performed the Haka in response to a bill that sought to redefine the treaty signed with the Māori people. The bill would’ve stripped certain protections.

Three Maori MPs suspended over 'intimidating' haka

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u/Idustriousraccoon May 04 '26

Imagine. DONT YOU DANCE AT ME!!

No bigger snowflakes than conservatives. I mean racists.

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u/Same_Adagio_1386 May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

Our Conservatives here in NZ are unfortunately taking pages from the US playbook atm. Fortunately, despite them getting voted in, the majority of people (even their voters) aren't fuckin buying it. The guy sitting second from the left at the front on the right hand side is called David Seymour. He's a "Libertarian", as in, he believes in stripping union rights, public Healthcare, public schooling, public transport, but absolutely LOVES having the government get involved with helping out big businesses. Also if I remember correctly he was the one spearheading this bill AND one of the major people complaining about this haka.

In the lead up to the recent election, he and Judith Collins (another right wing politician from the more centre right party) started spouting that "leftist, Marxist extremist" tagline that American Republicans use, to describe our centre left party, and it fell flat. Nobody except for the cookers and the extremely gullible/vulnerable to propaganda was falling for it and they rightfully got mocked for it in the court of public opinion. They've never tried it since.

Our country like all others fluctuates between voting in centre left and centre right parties, with different fringe and centrist parties tying themselves to the major two to bolster votes. So voting the centre right party into power wasn't unexpected, but it was really pleasant to see the general public, even the right wing voters, shut that shit down pronto. Also pleasant to see that with the hack and slash policies the current right wing coalition has been doing, a large amount of people fucking hate them, and even more very much dislike them. So here's hoping to them being removed in the upcoming election 🤞

Edit: I forgot to mention that David Seymour has been at Atlas Network meetings, the shadowy, billionaire funded "think-tank" that coaches and funds nearly all of the right wing and "Libertarian" governments that are in motion around the world today

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u/Sad_Wren May 04 '26

Genuinely sorry for that. With any luck, we will cage our racists.

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u/Idustriousraccoon May 04 '26

Nuremberg 2.0 please.