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Māori Party MPs suspended over haka protest in NZ parliament (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like others you mentioned these MPs will indeed take the punishment doled out by the Pakeha and like those other instances it will result in the public siding with them.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Which is exactly as I expected. I was trying to reassure the parent commenter that [regarding the punishment] things are proceeding just as the MPs wished for things to happen; that the punishment is being drawn intentionally and is something to be celebrated by their supporters; and I suppose that condemning Parliament for applying it is performative.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

That's bullshit. They would have obviously preferred not to be punished and prevent from participating in the parliament like they were elected to do.

This punishment will backfire on NACT though. It will point out how racist they are and how much they hate the indigenous people of this country. Their embrace of white supremacism and MAGA identity politics is in full display.