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.
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.
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.
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.
Obviously. In that universe, they don’t perform the haka at all. They don’t need to protest. The haka was protest! Done illegally(*)! Knowingly and intentionally! That’s called fucking civil disobedience. THE PUNISHMENT IS PART OF THE PROTEST. Jesus fucking fuck, dude. In your mind, do you imagine they expected that maybe they wouldn’t get punished?? They KNEW, and that’s part of the fucking reason they DID IT. Jesus fuck.
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.
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.
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.
Obviously. In that universe, they don’t perform the haka at all. They don’t need to protest. The haka was protest! Done illegally(*)! Knowingly and intentionally! That’s called fucking civil disobedience. THE PUNISHMENT IS PART OF THE PROTEST. Jesus fucking fuck, dude. In your mind, do you imagine they expected that maybe they wouldn’t get punished?? They KNEW, and that’s part of the fucking reason they DID IT. Jesus fuck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
In that universe they would perform the Haka and stay in Parliament.